Category Archives: heroes

Nan Goldin

Posted on November 25, 2011 by bkp
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public toilet

Posted on August 10, 2011 by bkp

Here’s a scene from Stephen Frear’s 1987 biopic of Joe Orton – “Prick Up Your Ears” (say it five times in a row quickly).  The film is based on Orton’s diaries – a high proportion of which deal with meeting … Continue reading →

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Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

Posted on August 31, 2010 by bkp

Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore (born Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe) were surrealist writers who made photographs – Cahun posed as the strange and glittering  shape-shifting subject and Moore operated a thirty year old Kodak pocket folding camera. In the … Continue reading →

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Jean Rouch

Posted on August 24, 2010 by bkp

Jean Rouch was a revolutionary filmmaker who was always aware of the power relationship between the observer and the observed in his ethnographic documentaries, and constantly sought out strategies to upset and dismantle that hierarchy. Here’s Les Maitres Fous from … Continue reading →

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Peaches

Posted on August 24, 2010 by bkp

We couldn’t embed our favourite Peaches’ video, where she turns her bedroom into an expanded cinema, because her record company still don’t seem to understand the internet, but have a look at it here. This footage of her live on … Continue reading →

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