Film, Neil Cooper

Jeff Mills, Dieter Moebius, JD Twitch and Raime perform live film soundtracks at 2013 Glasgow Film Festival

Woman in the Moon, Baraka and Metropolis among films featuring live score

Science-fiction and electronic music have long co-existed in parallel universes, the assorted experimental visionaries behind them predicting the future. Detroit techno pioneer and long-term sci-fi obsessive Jeff Mills in particular has made such a…

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…

Qatsi trilogy with Philip Glass live score highlight of Edinburgh International Festival

EIF 2011 screening of Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi

One of the earliest Edinburgh screenings of Koyaanisqatsi, the first of Godfrey Reggio’s remarkable trilogy of films scored by minimalist composer Philip Glass, was in an old porn cinema opposite what is now the Festival Theatre, then a bingo hall.

Listen to sound art underwater at Glasgow's Wet Sounds installation

Swimming pool listening part of Glasgow Music and FIlm Festival

The last time Wet Sounds floated into view was in Leith Baths in Edinburgh, where a non-stop electronic pulse added momentum as well as meditation to the daily work-out. This time around, curator Joel Cahan has enlisted the skills of site-specific…

Nashashibi and Skaer - On a different plane

A film-based collaboration inspired by the painting of Paul Nash

A shared belief in experimentation brought the creative talents of Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer together. Neil Cooper talks to them about the wartime painting which has inspired their new filmed collaboration

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…