Tag: Channel 4
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Barefaced Greek
Talking as I was in the last post of taking culture to children, I went to a discussion at Senate House about the work of Barefaced Greek, who aimed originaly to take ancient greek texts and make short videos for 14-15 year olds, although it seems they have a wider audience now. They are in…
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Save a Prayer for Number 1
There’s been a campaign to get Eagles of Death Metal’s Duran Duran cover to UK number 1 after the events of the Bataclan in Paris, and it looks like it will succeed. I’m not a big fan of EODM but I love ‘Save A Prayer’, I love that cover and love Duran even more –…
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Stewart Lee on arts funding
Worth watching this clip from a 2010 interview with Stewart Lee on arts funding…I think this very much has come to pass, much more with Cameron and co, where University is where you go to learn jobs that make money. And I think the point about the arts ‘fighting the war on their terms’ is…
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Boycott Sochi
You might have heard about the violence against LGBTQ in Russia but I doubt most of you have seen it. In this disturbing video by the HRC you can see what actually happens and hear from the people who have been attacked and ignored. Also I’ve not watched the Dispatches Channel 4 documentary Hunted yet…
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Factory Records – a business, a partnership, a joke
I’d never seen this – New Order making a documentary about themselves for Channel 4 in 1984 about Factory Records. Interesting interviews, and highlights that the story of Factory Records and Tony Wilson was as much a construct as anything, e.g. evil label boss vs disaffected band members which although constantly moaning still stayed with…
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David Hall – Video Art & Kleptonite
I’m exploring video art at the moment, from 1970s to 1990s – here’s one famous piece from David Hall which was shown unannounced on Scottish TV in 1971. This interest has come in part from capturing the VHS recordings I made in the 1990s – my own but also from BBC2 and Channel 4 who…