Film, Reviews, Neil Cooper

Screen Bandita presents Ritualised Frequencies - Church of the Sacred Heart, Edinburgh Sat 21 Jul

Includes Ariadne Xenou, Cut Hands, Daniel Padden and Howie Reeve

Madonna may have been getting sacred and profane with what was by all accounts a limp 'Like A Prayer' routine over at Murrayfield, but it took Saturday night in a Jesuit chapel hall to really come together. The occasion was 16mm film divas Screen…

Luke Fowler (with Toshiya Tsunoda and John Haynes)

Film installation references RD Laing

‘We are actors in a play... whose plot we don’t know... and whose end I dare not imagine.’ These words, delivered by iconoclastic Glasgow-born ‘anti-psychiatrist’ RD Laing, not only form the opening gambit of ‘All Divided Selves’, Luke Fowler’s latest…

Steven Severin: Vampyr - Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Thu 12 Jan

Ex-Banshees bassist delivers brooding live score to 1930s horror classic

The man with the flowing white hair walks towards a small table and chair to one side of the Cameo’s big screen. Sporting a long black winter coat and carrying a glass of red wine, the man looks as if he’s stepped in from another, altogether darker age…

Jordan Baseman & Henna-Riikka Halonen: Commonwealth Suite

FILM On the high diving board at the Commonwealth Pool weeks before the civic amenity built for the 1970 Commonwealth Games closes for refurbishment, junior members of Edinburgh Diving Club are showing off their air-to-water gymnastic skills. As a…