Conversations from the REMIX CINEMA Workshop

In conversation with Richard Misek at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

Film Studies For Free took a little break to meet a few deadlines in the last two weeks. Normal service resumes this week, thankfully.

In the next days, there will be an entry of links in memory of Theo Angelopoulos who sadly died last week. So, do please come back for that.

Today, though, FSFF posts links to some recently uploaded audio files which very valuably record great interviews with the contributors to an important workshop conference that took place last March at Oxford University.

The event explored the topic of Remix Cinema: the collaborative making, deconstruction and distribution of digital artefacts, and was part of a wider project exploring the role of audio-visual remix practices in contemporary digital culture.

Thanks to everyone taking part for making these excellent resources available to everyone working in the field.

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  In conversation with Erlend Lavik at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011
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  In conversation with Paolo Peverini at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011 

  
  
• 3:18

  In conversation with Irene Cassarino at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

• 2:48

  In conversation with Nicolás Alcalá at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

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  In conversation with Joan Carles Martorell at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

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  In conversation with Indrek Ibrus at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

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  In conversation with Mette Birk and Owen Gallagher at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

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  In conversation with Rune Saugmann Andersen at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

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  In conversation with Maynou and Steele at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

  3:12

  In conversation with Marisol Salanova at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

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  In conversation with Gabriel Menotti at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

  
  
• 2:30

  In conversation with Dave Griffiths at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

  3:05

  In conversation with Evelin Stermitz at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

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  In conversation with Daniel Chávez at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

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  In conversation with Aurite Kouts at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

• 2:57

  In conversation with Toni Roig at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

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  In conversation with Thijs van Exel at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

• 3:16

  In conversation with Sanna Marttila at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

• 2:34

  In conversation with Kati Hyyppa at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

• 3:12

  In conversation with Karin Wenz at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

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  In conversation with Ethan Plaut at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

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  In conversation with Annelies Termeer at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

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  In conversation with Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss at the Remix Cinema Workshop 2011

"Pity we aren't madder": Ken Russell links in his magnificent memory

"I think we've all gone mad" [Jennie Linden as Ursula Brangwen]

"Pity we aren't madder" [Alan Bates as Rupert Birkin] 

 Scene from Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969)

An extract from one of Ken Russell's very first films, Amelia and the Angel (1958) 

Film Studies For Free was saddened to hear of the death yesterday of the magnificent filmmaker Ken Russell. A monumental passing. But what a cinematic life he lived!

Russell's weirdly, viscerally, brilliant Altered States (1980) was one of the first films genuinely to whet FSFF's author's off-beat cinematic appetite, and his adaptation of Women in Love (excerpted above) and his portraits of Elgar (1962), Delius (1968) and Mahler (1974) are several of her favourite British films.

Below, FSFF has gathered some links to online scholarly studies of Russell's work, and to related  resources. Readers should also check out David Hudson's essential collection of tributes to, and other material about, the British filmmaker for the Mubi Notebook here.

• Ken Russell at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
• Savage Messiah – a Ken Russell site by Iain Fisher 

• Complete Filmography and bibliography: Tarek Krohn and Hans J. Wulff (eds), Medienwissenschaft / Hamburg: Berichte und Papiere 110 / 2010: Ken Russell (Hamburg: Hamburg University, 2010
  

• German language book on music in Ken Russell's films: Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung, 7, 2011: Musik bei Ken Russell // 3- edited by Frédéric Döhl, Albrecht Riethmüller and Hans Jürgen Wulff

• Michael Adams, 'Ken Russell: Musical Mythmaker', Notes, 66 (September 2009): 143-163
• E. Anna Claydon, 'Masculinity and deviance in British cinema of the 1970s: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n'Roll in The Wicker Man, Tommy and The Rocky Horror Picture Show', in Newland, P. (ed) Don't Look Now? British Cinema in the 1970s, (Intellect Ltd 2010) pp. 131-142
• Adrian Garvey, 'The Boy Friend', The 1970s Project Conference, 2008
• Sergio Lopez Figueroa, 'The anachronism in film music: a brief introduction on the music for “The Devils” (1971)', 1995
• Barry Keith Grant, 'A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible, UK, 1989: Ken Russell', in Grant and Jim Hillier, 100 Documentary Films (London: BFI/Palgrave, 2009) 
• Chris Martin, 'Music in British Films in the 1970s: New Directions', The 1970s Project Conference, 2008 
• John Kenneth Muir, 'On Ken Russell, and Re-Viewing England’s Last Mannerist', JKM, October 10, 2009 
• Donald Phelps, 'Ken Russell's Portraits of Elgar, Delius and Mahler', Rouge, 8, 2006
• David Pomeroy, 'Films: Experiencing Tommy', Theology Today, Vol. 32, No. 3, 1975
• John A. Riley, '[Review of] Kevin M. Flanagan (ed.), Ken Russell: Re-Viewing England's Last Mannerist (London, Toronto and Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, 2009)', Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol. 7, April 2010
• Donato Totaro and Peter Rist, 'An Interview With Ken Russell and Lisi Tribble~ Rock n' Roller at Heart', Offscreen Journal, April 30, 2011
• Linda Ruth Williams, 'Ken Russell: Sweet Swell Of Excess', Sight and Sound, July 2007
  

Barry Keith Grant, 'The Body Politic: Ken Russell in the 1980s', in Lester D. Friedman (ed.) Fires were started: British cinema and Thatcherism (London: Wallflower Press, 2006)

Kevin M. Flanagan (ed.), Ken Russell: Re-Viewing England's last mannerist (London: Scarecrow Press, 2009)