John Wyver writes: Back in the summer of 1986, writer Sandy Nairne, director Geoff Dunlop and I were in New York filming our 6-part Channel 4 series State of the Art. Sandy had conceived the second programme as an exploration more
John Wyver with links to recent stuff about what we can still just about call television. The cinematic in contemporary television and media: a strong set of selected clips with accompanying short essays from in media res:
moreFollowing on from Tom Allen's recent post '100 years of Bauhaus', John Wyver selects links to online resources for the centenary of the influential German school of art and design. Above, the iconic Wassily Chair, 1925-26, designed by Marcel more
From the Guardian's daily US politics feed on Wednesday 20 March... the full Esquire interview with Pete Buttigieg is here and a backgrounder on the candidate (image: Joshua Lott/Getty Images).
Drawing on the documentary films Bauhaus and Masterworks: Bauhaus, available on DVD from Illuminations, as well as on recent articles marking 100 years since the Bauhaus was established, Tom Allen reflects on the meaning and the legacy of more
John Wyver writes: for this collection of links I am interpreting the idea of 'writing' rather broadly, and so there are pointers towards pieces about writing, pieces about journalism, pieces about reading, and pieces of what I feel to be more
John Wyver writes: Seeing The Lost People a week or so ago piqued my interest in movies set in the middle Europe of the immediate post-war years, and in how they might have negotiated the complex politics more
This Sunday, 17 March, Battersea Arts Centre are hosting a very special one-off showing of all the films made for the series Performance Live as collaborations between BAC, Arts Council England, BBC Television and a host of cultural organisations and more
Our very latest production is the trailer for Anne Washburn's play Shipwreck, directed by Rupert Goold, at the Almeida Theatre until 30 March. A tale of Trump's America, it's quite a ride - and the one-minute trailer aims to more
John Wyver writes: following recent clutches of Links concerned with Photography, with Television, and with the Visual Arts, today's offering draws together a few of the essential articles and videos about film that I have enjoyed recently. more