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Andy Wilson has combined a review of The Gold Machine with a transcription of my Zoom talk to the Blake Society.

https://www.travellerintheevening.com...

Tim Adams, in yesterday’s Observer, linked the 20-year-old publication of London Orbital with recent ‘loft insulation’ protesters super-glueing their hands to the M25 motorway.

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A Bookworm Diary with Emily Jarman interviews Iain

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The first two episodes of Farne Sinclair’s podcasts are now available on Apple Podcasts and also on other platforms.

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Me: Iain, what’s the fourth movie of the series?

Iain: The Cardinal & the Corpse – which is already out there on Vimeo

Link to the video: https://vimeo.com/295042667;

 

The Cardinal and the Corpse by Iain Sinclair & Christopher Petit (1992). from pointless_walks on Vimeo.

Iain has kindly shared the following short piece which will be part of the catalogue for an upcoming show at the CCCB in Barcelona 

It is accompanied by a series of pictures by Anonymous Bosch

 

EXPOSED BY MASK

 

‘The sea was not a mask.’

— Wallace Stevens, The Idea of Order at Key West

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I’m very happy that the collaboration with Chris Petit, Asylum, has been posted on Vimeo. People have frequently asked about this, the third of our four films for Channel 4, and the most elusive. It’s the one we were most satisfied with (or least displeased). It feels like the right moment for the resurrection. Asylum was an essay [...]

The Falconer, technically, was an advance on The Cardinal and the Corpse. This time there was no industry crew. The shoot was very much free form, going off wherever the story took us, fuelled on cultural appropriation (in the best sense) and creative paranoia. It was always intended as part of a wider project known as [...]

John Rogers has posted one of his filmic rambles, in which we struck out from Tilbury, in the direction of Stanford-le-Hope (once the home of Joseph Conrad). We discussed the germination of The Gold Machine and the start of my London adventures, from the same spot, many years ago, with Downriver. John works wonders in finessing a random [...]

Unfortunately the announced event for 2nd of September is undergoing a change of format and is at the moment no longer available.

Iain will post updates as they become available.

 

News from Iain:   I can now confirm the ‘special preview screening’ of Grant Gee’s film, The Gold Machine, along with the launch of my book, at Swedenborg House on Thursday 2nd September. Times and details to be confirmed. Grant, unfortunately, can’t be there himself. But I will be having an introductory conversation about book [...]