A city in the North of England in the momentous winter of 1978: the ‘winter of discontent’, the final winter before the Thatcher era: punk-rock cacophonies and riots in hotel ballrooms and subterranean nightclubs, an abandoned cityscape of ruined industrial buildings in which ghosts are more living than the living, a serial-killer pursued by […]Read Post ›

  All contemporary visual culture can be traced back to the seminal work of Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), whose prolific and inspirational experiments in photography, moving-images, animation and projection shattered the boundaries of how images and human bodies are perceived. Muybridge’s work had a pivotal twentieth-century influence on artists such as Francis Bacon, but that work’s […]Read Post ›

  Film is undergoing a process of profound transformation. Over the past twenty years, filmmakers and theorists have spoken of the ‘end’ or ‘death’ of cinema, in many different ways. This book looks at the abandonment both of film and also of cinematic spaces – notably at an extraordinary avenue of abandoned but intact cinemas […]Read Post ›