To Somerset House to experience Mat Collishaw's VR artwork Thresholds. You have only until tomorrow, 11 June, to see this - and I would definitely recommend a visit, although you'll certainly need to book. Hannah-Ellis Petersen wrote for the Guardian more
I really like the streaming service Mubi.com. I was initially sceptical about its subscription model offering just 30 films at a time, with one dropping off each day and a new one added. But I have been entirely won more
Cheek by Jowl are currently livestreaming their production of The Winter's Tale from the Barbican. Below is a bunch of background links and now I am intending to live blog through the evening. The stream will have subtitles in English, French and Spanish, more
John Wyver writes: Earlier today I spoke on a panel at the Archives, Access and Research conference at BFI Southbank. Co-organised by the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production at Royal Holloway, University of more
On Monday Alice Saville wrote an article for Exeunt about streaming and filming theatre. 'Why theatre needs to love film, not fear it' is intended as a provocation, so perhaps unsurprisingly I found interesting and irritating in about equal measure. Similarly predictable is more
On Sunday afternoon Beware of Pity, an adaptation of a Stefan Zweig novel created by Complicite and Schaubühne Berlin, was live-streamed from the stage of London’s Barbican. The much-praised show sold out its theatre performances but along with more
Sunday is a big day for live/as-live performance online, with the release of Opera North's Ring Cycle plus a stream at 3pm from the Barbican of the Complicite and Schaubühne Berlin show at the Barbican, Beware of Pity (above). Links more
As my production interests and my academic concerns are both focussed, albeit not exclusively, on live events for the cinema, I am acutely aware of how rapidly the field is developing. To help myself, if no-one else, keep up to date more
Last night, for the London opening of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Half a Sixpence, the production's publicists employed an up-to-the-minute medium in a manner that mimicked the early years of television. Working with Facebook Live, Half a Sixpence first more
The Museum of Modern Art in New York recently unveiled an exciting, extraordinary and exemplary archival project, 'Exhibition history', that is putting online for free and unrestricted access thousands and thousands of installation photographs, press releases and - most more