The 11th of February sees a national rally at Trafalgar Square in solidarity with the people in the Middle East and North Africa resisting tyrannical regimes [and some of the bastards who've come to replace them]. Human rights knows no borders. Unfortunately, neither do the more negative aspects of suddenly finding yourself in a position [...]
It was one of those one-off phone call scenarios.
Dr D, this wheatpasting vandal I know, rings up. “You still doing your telly things?”
Yes.
“What you doin tonight?”
Erm…. I scrabbled around for a camera.
“Wanna meet me at six or seven around [redacted]?”
So after I convinced Emily James to come out shooting with me, we met D on [...]
The second instalment of my Random Acts films for Channel 4 aired on Monday night.
This one is on the Situationist-inspired anarchitect collective, the Space Hijackers. Troublemakers with a dapper cut and a razor-edged wit, they saw fit to tackle moves by the UK’s coalition government to privatise bits of the NHS. Their mode of battle? [...]
Santa doesn’t come once a year. He comes by the thousands on a sozzled, situationist-inspired derive that wreaks merry ho all over the streets of London. He paints the town red and white and has little time for pesky elves. He can be nice, but on Santacon, he’s only ever naughty.
Hooked up with the phenomenal Hannah Hull over a few days in London and Liverpool to discuss art, anti-art and “the ephemerality of truth in conversation”. It was for my show on Resonance FM – The Left Bank Show.
Left Bank Show 02.12.2011 [Hannah Hull] by Resonance FM
The Reverend Billy came to London one autumn weekend to connect Occupy London with Occupy Wall Street. He landed, made his way to St Paul’s and found himself sleeping in Emily James’s vacant tent [complete with inflatable mattress under the bells of the cathedral].
He gave a rousing sermon livelinked with our friends in New York [...]
A series of Home Office proposals could ban protests during the London 2012 Olympic games. In reaction to the longevity and scale of recent Occupy London takeovers of public and private space at St Paul’s Cathedral, Finsbury Square and a former UBS bank, ministers are reported to be drafting legislation loosely based on part 3 of the Police [...]
This is the third in the latest set of films for Amnesty International about Syrian exiles living in the UK.
It’s a bit of a hatchet job on the group “Syrians In Britain”, a gang of Assad loyalists with thinly-veiled fascist sympathies. Nice….
From the Amnesty bumph:
Amnesty International UK joined with over 2000 Syrians in the UK [...]
It was about how the 99% weren’t allowed in to feed at the trough of the 1%. Considering David Cameron, his wife and men in ermine and wigs were going to feasting on expensive dead things, I had a little idea.
My latest Syria film for Amnesty International.
More soon….
[additional camera by Martin Ginestie]
