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Stars on the Telly

Catch 'Stars' on RTE 2 this comin saturday 11th feb at 11:05pm. I'll be at the Broken Social Scene gig and I'll miss it so tell me what happens.

Rotterdam 06 and a tasty music treat

So I went on a lovely research trip to the Rotterdam Film Festival (thanks to my wonderful new producer), where they screened Stars (out of competition due to late submission- hopefully next year it will be in). I got an idea of the kind of life people lead in the upper stratosphere of European film-making. A lot of intelligence and a smattering of bullshit. Many many films- best of which was from a hero of mine- Jan Svankmajers new one 'Lunacy'. It was wicked. Here's a comprehensive website of his work that needs to be updated. Great essays!

Two of the three awards for best short film went to animated films - David Shrigley and Chris Hardings (of Shynola) 'Who I am and what I want' and Run Wrake's 'Rabbit'. It's heartening to see the jurors hold no discrimination between animation and live-action, a sign of things to come?

It was nice to see an exhibiton of a lot of works by visual artists working with video- perhaps indicitive of the step that video art needs to take in order to be relevent alongside the progress of motion graphics and digital animation.

As far as my own work goes I'm still working on new scripts- for TV, film and short formats. As well as doing the odd bit of work to keep me going. Also doing a lot of practical and theoretical research too (another phrase for readin the net and books and fuckin around with programs and cameras)...

Way back in November I made an mp3 mix to sort of celebrate what apparently was 'Month of the Remix' or something like that. I wanted to avoid the regular 'dj someone presents their current taste in music' so I loaded all my mp3 files into winamp and hit shuffle. The mix is what winamp chose from start to finish, but tweaked by myself in Acid. Perhaps it still gives some idea of what kind of music I listen to these days without being too subjective about it, with additional creative twiddlings.

Not without its rubbish mixing efforts and editing mistakes in order to add that 'personal', 'rough', 'analogue', 'authentic', 'raw', 'complex simplicity' touch for all you independent bohemians out there, my first ***cast of any kind, the

shufflemix.mp3

I did this really comprehensive tracklisting image but I can't find it.

Also look out for a vidcast interview with myself and the boys from del 9 on the darklight film festival website, or on their blog.