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Filmmaker Richard Baylor talks about the counterculture and distribution network of the 1990s, death row, Ipswich, and the ‘video nasties’.
In anticipation of his upcoming book, PURE: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers, Jared Stearns tells us what led him to write about this icon of the 1970s.
Julian Upton talks about obscure British movies and their part in his book, Offbeat: British Cinema’s Curiosities, Obscurities and Forgotten Gems.
A single staple is the most primitive of zine bindings. Find out why Colton Cobb’s Dangerous Encounters is as much about obscure films as it is damaged art.
“A sense of permanence, like an old idea of a dystopian future,” is how David Kerekes describes the photographs of Claire Wray.
An archive interview with Gary Spencer Millidge about the strange village of Strangehaven, now a milestone in independent British comics.
What is a custom movie? David Kerekes looks at Mail Order Murder: the Story of W.A.V.E. Productions and talks to filmmaker, William Hellfire.
In this archive interview, Julian Butler talks about the pitfalls of leaping from no-budget filmmaking to a national television series. Smile Orange’s Focus North.
The do-it-yourself publishing aesthetic. A conversation with Chris Mikul about Biblio-Curiosa and the small world of fanzines.
Speaking from his New Delhi apartment, author Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee chats about his new book The Town Slowly Empties, and of life and art and the problem of getting a haircut during a pandemic. David Kerekes chats back.
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
