Scenes from the 2019 Offscreen Film Festival, Brussels. Nova Cinema. Photos of the Nova foyer by David Kerekes Death on Film International Conference Nova Cinema Belgium – 23 March 2019 – 13h30 Cinema Nova From cinema’s earliest days, depictions of sexual acts on film were for restricted viewing only, …
I stumbled across this image on one of my recent jogs around the internet. It is one of the most savage and arresting creations I have seen in a long time, and a beautiful representation of the Grand Guignol aesthetic (horror beyond horror, as I now call it). It’s a …
Anyone with an interest in Grand Guignol, the theatre in Paris whose name is a byword for horror beyond horror, may care to know that its vicarious thrills are alive on the boards again thanks to some small dedicated theatre companies in London and indeed around the world. Unlike the …
Tower Transmissions V promised to be a major 2015 highlight for fans of power electronics, death industrial, and dark ambient. Below, Richard Stevenson—contributor to Headpress title Fight Your Own War: Power Electronics and Noise Culture and editor of Noise Receptor journal—recounts some memorable moments. For me Clinic of Torture were …
In the run-up to a new Headpress book on noise music, I visited the town where the action in my Termite Club chapter took place to measure the current temperature of proceedings there. Crater Lake is an annual one-day festival of several years’ standing, staged at the popular Wharf Chambers …
I swore off going to screenings of video nasties a few years ago. Living in London, it increasingly seemed like you couldn’t go to the cinema to watch any horror film made before 1990 without sitting through the accompanying guffaws and knowing snorts of much of the audience. I put …