image as thought up by me and crafted on mike cupcake’s computer as i was schlepping about soho with a gentleman at the time.
if you need an explanation, dow chemicals are one of the official sponsors of the london 2012 olympic games. in 1999, they merged with the union carbide corporation – the pesticide manufacturing [...]
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 [...]
London’s Metropolitan Police has called for large businesses and the public to report suspicious anarchist activities immediately. A weekly communiqué (see below) issued by the City of Westminster’s Counter Terrorist Focus Desk said:
“Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy. Any information [...]
Filmed this recently…. One HDV camera and one mobile phone. It was for Stop Sweatshop Greenwash at Thanet Earth. It’s to the tune of Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream”. Not a bad stab for a bunch of green and labour activists in green hair and a man with an inflatable guitar eh?
Adam Curtis is a documentary filmmaker and academic who is best known for his use of videomontage to relay sociopolitical analyses of the modern age. His films include The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares. His latest project is a three-part BBC internet series called All Watched Over by Machines of Loving [...]
