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The Times Between A & Z
In the recent Q&A on Marc Karlin’s Between Times (1993), the film’s editor and voice of ‘A’, Steve Sprung, declared Marc was both ‘A’ and ‘Z’. That is to say, Marc occupied the two opposing left...
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Picture This presents Marc Karlin, The Serpent (1997) Q&A with Holly Aylett...
The Serpent (1997) is a drama-documentary about Rupert Murdoch. Borrowing from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Karlin tells the tale of commuter Michael Deakin (Nicholas Farrell), self appointed archangel,...
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Picture This, Presents Marc Karlin. Nightcleaners (1975) Q&A with Mike...
The Berwick Street Collective’s Nightcleaners (1975) was filmed to support an attempt by the women’s movement to unionise London’s night cleaners. Shot in black and white, and punctuated with sections...
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British Sounds and Echoes
In the recent Marc Karlin round-table event at Picture This, Kodwo Eshun remarked this project reflected a current need to return to the archives of what Jean-Luc Godard named ‘Cine-Marxism’. Sheila...
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Dead Man’s Wheel and American Choice ’68 (1968)
In an interview with Sheila Rowbotham, published in her book Looking at Class. Film, Television and the Working Class in Britain written with Huw Beynon, Marc Karlin recalls his early films of the...
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The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna...
The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott is a new film from artist Luke Fowler, recently shortlisted for the Turner Prize. Fowler’s film is inspired by...
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I Am Writing To You From A Distant Country… Marc and Marker (The Monk/L’maître).
Just before Marc Karlin’s death, film-maker Isaac Julien remarked, ‘The reason why his (Karlin’s) work is still screened, is because he is seen as like the Chris Marker or Jean Luc Godard of the...
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A Melody Of On-Rushing Images
©The Marc Karlin Archive All he had to do was shut his eyes, and on-rush this illness, that half gave him pleasure, half pain. It was a malady of on-rushing images that never seemed to stop… Marc...
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Year of the Beaver – A Film about the Modern “Civilised” State.
The Year of the Beaver (1985), directed by Steve Sprung, Dave Fox and Sylvia Stevens, recently screened by Radical Islington earlier this month, focuses on the industrial dispute at the Grunwicks...
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Maybe, she wrote to us… Nicaragua Part 1 – Voyages: The Posthumous Director’s...
Voyages (1985), the first part in Marc Karlin’s extraordinary Nicaraguan series, comprises of stills by the American photographer Susan Meiselas. Between 1978 and 1979, Meiselas captured the two...
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A Time For Invention · A Symposium of Radical Filmmaking
Sheffield Hallam University Thursday, 13 June 2013 from 10:30 to 18:00 (BST) Sheffield, United Kingdom “We want to make films that unnerve, that shake assumptions, that threaten, that do not...
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Revolution 03. Oh to be in England – Vivid Projects, Birmingham (March 2013)
Following on from Vivid Project’s short introduction on Marc Karlin in March this year, three of Karlin’s films will be screened over a three days from tomorrow (13-15th June). Here is the flyer from...
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Revolutions 10-13 A Certain Sensibility: Films from the English Underground
Featuring Richard Heslop, Marc Karlin and Derek Jarman. This new exhibition draws together works from three strikingly independent filmmakers key to the radical trajectory of the post-1976 English...
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Wim Wenders’ documentary Room 666 (1982) –“Is cinema a language about to get...
During the Cannes Film Festival in 1982, Wim Wenders set-up a static camera in a room at the Hotel Martinez. He then invited a selection of directors to answer a series of questions on the future of...
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Chris Marker: Marc 2
In a post last year, I traced the lost history of Marc Karlin’s collaborations with Chris Marker. It is over a year since Marker’s death and in tribute, stirred by the BFI’s Film Essay season in...
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‘Utopias’– Part 1. Opening Sequence A/V Script
Utopias’ Treatment ©The Marc Karlin Archive (Music) Edward Elgar-Cello Concerto in E minor V/O (Archive) Socialism is a very attractive idea and could remain a very attractive idea so long as there...
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