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Dead Cinemas

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:29:35 +0000

Former site of the Embassy Cinema, Western Road, Hove

Former site of the Embassy Cinema, Western Road, Hove
Also known as Hove Cinematograph Theatre, and Tivoli Cinema.
Opened 1912. Closed 1981

Currently Off Air – Transmission 1

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:23:48 +0000

The first CURRENTLY OFF AIR Transmission is here.

For a playlist and links to all the artists featured in the transmission click HERE.

Flickers of Light (excerpt)

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:37:22 +0000

Flickers of Light (excerpt) from buckinfudgy on Vimeo.

Excerpts from a 1987 Dutch Art TV documentary on Video/Sound Artist, ‘Yasmina Threnk’ made shortly after her disappearance.
Footage donated by the Threnk Bequest.
Re-edit by Buck in Fudgy 2010.

Downtown Heptasm – Reel 1 (Alpha) ‘The Monkey’s Brother’

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:19:33 +0000

The first reel of the seven part Downtown Heptasm reconstruction project.

Downtown Heptasm – Reel 1 (Alpha) ‘The Monkey’s Brother’ from buckinfudgy on Vimeo.

Background details here:
www.buckinfudgy.org/heptasm.html

A reconstruction of the first of seven legendary ‘beat’ reels from the late 1950s. Originally created by Ed Coolly, recreated by Buckinfudgy.

History:
Edmund Coolliquoi (Ed Coolly) was an Anglo-French expat living in New York in the mid-1950s. He became ‘turned on’ to the work of beat poets and performers, jazz musicians and the possibilities of electronics. His day job was as a technician for local New York experimental TV station, WRZY. To fill in gaps in programming, and during the late night closedown, Coolly developed collections of test signals, countdowns and industrial film footage. Overlaid with poems and sound from beat poet friends, these developed into 7 sound and moving image collages, each one lasting for seven minutes. These films became known as the ‘Downtown Heptasm Reels’.

Continually refined, developed and added to throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, Coolly only stopped working on the collection shortly before his death in 1967. By this time the reels had become legendary amongst television technicians, and were regularly screened at happenings and psychedelic gatherings in San Francisco, London and Paris.

Although the masters were lost, some fragments of the original reels have been retained in private collections. Few agree on the full content of all seven reels (for example, debate is split on whether the Zapruder footage was ever included) but enough first person testimony exists to aid the rebuilding of the seven parts. Returning to the original sources, Buck in Fudgy have begun work on a project to restore ‘Downtown Heptasm’ to its original Hepcat glory.

Testcard

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:54:40 +0000

Noir of the Day – The Killers

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:46:20 +0000

Today’s Noir was ‘The Killers’ (1946). An adaptation of Hemingway’s 1927 hardboiled short story (one revisited in David Cronenburg’s 2005 ‘A History of Violence’). The film is directed by German Director and UFA graduate, Robert Siodmak. Ufa (Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft) was the Berlin home, throughout the 1920s and 1930s, to Film Directors such as Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Carl Theodor Dreyer and E.A.Dupont. Burt Lancaster stars in his breakthrough role as the sympathetic ‘Swede’. Lancaster later confessed to finding his kissing scenes with Ava Gardner ‘deeply stirring’ and to being so nervous that he needed 15 takes during some scenes. Edmund O’Brien, of D.O.A also stars as the investigator.

After the doomy, menacing, atmospheric opening scenes of the killers, Max and Al (played beautifully by William Conrad and Charles McGraw) finding and gunning down ‘the Swede’ (after ordering Ham and Eggs) the film’s pace and mood lags a little, getting slightly lost in a welter of flashbacks and recollections. Using a non-linear structure that is similar to Citizen Kane’s ‘investigation’ mode it becomes a little confusing and would probably benefit from a second viewing. Cinematographer Woody Bredell developed ‘out of balance’ lighting of heightened contrasts by not using the fill lighting that gave many contemporary films a dull grey look.

The film was produced by broadway columnist, Mark Hellinger who, the following year, would partner up with Jules Dassin to make two further Noir classics: ‘Brute Force’ (again featuring Lancaster) and docu-noir, ‘The Naked City’ – for which he also provided the memorable voiceover (‘There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them‘). He died of a heat attack just before Christmas 1947.

‘If there’s one thing in this world I hate, it’s a double-crossing dame’

‘Don’t ask a dying man to lie his soul into Hell’.

Reference: ‘Film Noir’ by Eddie Robson. Virgin Film books. 2005

Currently Off Air

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:15:30 +0000

Currently Off Air is the name of BiF’s forthcoming monthly radio show and podcast. A follow on from the Radio Sqat Transmission Tapes from the late 1990s, the show will begin broadcasting on Radio Reverb, 97.2FM in Brighton, UK and online at www.radioreverb.com at some point in Summer 2010. Downloads of the show will be available here as well as links to a podcast edition.

Podcasts, downloads and tracklistings will be posted up on www.currentlyoffair.com