the Flight Attendant

fun series about a hard drinking girl waking up next to her dead one night stand (Michiel Huisman)

podcasts

* Team Deakins - amazing insight in the films they helped make

* Tom Read Wilson has words with - enjoyable enough

* Huberman Lab - why we need to sleep

* Darknet Diaries - a bit superficial and over the top, but fun stories about e.g. North Korean cybertronic bank heists

* I'm not a Monster - gripping mini series about an American girl moving to Syria to join ISIS with her radicalized husband. Her son was ten years old and famous for threatening the American president via a video message.

* In machines we trust

* I was There Too - chats with "second characters" of films, e.g. bus passengers of Speed, the girl in the pit from Silence of the Lambs.

Sisters with Transistors

Delia Derbyshire was instrumental in setting up the BBC Radiophonic workshop after ww II. Wrote the Dr Who theme!!

Daphne Oram set up her own sound studio.

Jo Hutton - musicologist.

Elaine Radigue worked closely with Pierre Henry.

 

Music of Bebe Barron (together with husband Louis) was described by Anaïs Nin: "a molecule had stubbed its toe". They did the sound for "Forbidden Planet"! Bebe Barron: "The monster was the most difficult thing. The dying of Morbius was the actual dying of the circuits". Some bigshots of the movie/msuic industry did not allow the soundtrack - first completely electronic soundtrack ever - to be called music, afraid for their jobs.  Thus they are credited as "electronic tonalities by Louis and Bebe Barron"

Pauline Oliveros used an accordeon?! "I used a bathbtub for reverberation".  She was a woman, gay and played avant garde music.  Every single one of those things would be difficult in the 1960's.  She had all three. 
Wrote a piece 'Don't call me a "Lady" composer'... which is a strange echo from the past reverberating my frustration with gay or female writers being asked "what being gay or female" meant to them.... while no man is ever asked what being male means to him or influenced his art! As it shouldn't! Don't ask them, as you don't ask him! They are writers, composers, artists. Like "him".  We should switch it around. Ask males "how/why" them being male influenced their work. ffs. Doesn't this species ever learn?
Pauline Oliveros - "Listening is the basis of creativity in culture"

Laurie Spiegel wrote "Music mouse" ... in the 80s?  Should really look into her.

Wendy Carlos; her of "A Clockwork Orange" fame.

Playwriters were writing very surreal plays after the war.  They needed surreal sounds.

Arab Strap - "Fable of the Urban Fox"

Amazing parlando track.

Can - "Vitamin C"

 Somehow haunting song with that repeated "hey you! You're losing.. you're losing... you're losing your mind!"

Drum 'n base version: Adam Beyer & Bart Skils - Your Mind [Drumcode]

Mr Scruff - "Fish"

Also famous from the electro-swing alike "Get a move on"

Tim Birkhead - "The most perfect thing"

The final book about bird eggs!

Ingmar Heytze - "De veertig van Heytze"

Nogmaals aan het overlezen, nog altijd even goed.

Meander

Fun "cube" like film with ok plot

Seobok

Nice South Korean film about a clone who needs to be protected.  Has a wonderful balance between philosophy and action.

Vicious Fun

Does what it promises. Horror magazine journalists finds himself in an "AA meeting for serial killers"

Fried Barry

Crazy South African film about a drug user getting possessed by an alien, going on a strange surreal trip through the night. Includes having sex with a sex worker who gives birth immediately after. Crazy stuff.

In the Shadows

Great Turkish film of a dystopian future where men just live to serve the machine, but don't know why or what.

Caught in Time

Wonderful "Chinese version of Heat" with a cop and a robber endlessly chasing each other. Delightful watch.

Slate

Fun Korean fantasy film of a stunt double going to an alternative universe where she actually is the hero.

Sputnik

Enjoyable Russian horror film set in the 70s of one of the first astronauts returning with an alien in his head.  Enjoyed the setting and the plot.

Alien on Stage

An amazing documentary of a bunch of amateur theatre actors playing Alien, ending up in Leicester Square Theatre.

Fried Barry

Trippy South-African film about a guy who loves drugs being taken possession by an alien.

Labelled "already a cult classic"  is always problematic.

I liked it.  Drink a bottle of wine - preferably two - and it's a great film. There's a few wonderful moments, when his crazy asylum mate considers a "stok" for a gun. 

shorts

 Outsider shorts of the Imagine Film Festival

• Carrie's Doing Great - nice Stephord's Wifes 
• La Coeur D'Or - amazing stop motion about a woman slowly selling herself for her son's sake, turning into gold
• Uncario - enjoyable silent time traveling short

Vicious Fun

Crowdpleaser, meta slasher about a nobody who stumbles into an AAA meeting for serial killers.

Nothing spectacular but enjoyable.