Posts Tagged shameless self-promotion
EXIT Teaser
So, uh, I’ve accidentally done that thing that no film critic is ever meant to do. I’ve written a movie.
That’s right. Roger Ebert has Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and I have EXIT. The official site has just gone live. Visit it for photos! Quotes! Whatever the plural of ‘synopsis’ is!
Here’s the teaser trailer:
Find more at www.exit-movie.com. You can make us feel popular by liking the film on facebook, too.
(I know it’s ‘synopses’, but that’s never really looked all that convincing, has it?)
Reading Comics: Free Talk on Monday Night
This Monday night I’ll be giving a free, casual talk at North Fitzroy library explaining once and for all: what’s so good about comic books, anyway? Here’s the details:
Reading Comics with Martyn Pedler
7pm, Monday August 9th
240 St Georges Rd, North Fitzroy Vic 3068
In the spirit of Thunderdome, I’ll be splitting the night down the middle. Half on the best of the indie / alternative scene and the particular joys of the comic book medium, and half on how to wade into the regularly insane world of superhero comics. Feel free to come along and tell me about whatever favourites I’ve missed.
Some exclamation points to get you excited:
Doom Patrol! American Splendor! Hellboy! Astro City! Jimmy Corrigan! Batman: Year One! From Hell! Casanova! Bottomless Belly Button! All-Star Superman! Eddy Current! Sandman! David Boring! Zot! Probably some X-Men, too!
If anyone’s bored in Melbourne on Monday night, it’d be great to see you.
Be Famous and Die at MIAF
Simon O’Carrigan’s animated adaptation of my short story Be Famous and Die will be screening in the ‘Australian Panorama’ at the Melbourne International Animation Festival.
I’m endlessly pleased with Simon’s take on the story, originally commissioned for the Melbourne, and Other Myths exhibition. He yanked out the moments he found most interesting from the monologue and transformed them into smoky, stream-of-consciousness imagery. It looks like dreams feel.
(Plus there’s a handdrawn, copyright-smashing Batman cameo. How could I resist?)
Be Famous And Die
Simon O’Carrigan
2008, 4’45
A Melburnian’s monologue on the subjectivity and transience of fame and stone statues.
The Australian Panorama screens at 4pm, Saturday 27 June, at the Australia Centre for the Moving Image.
And you can see some of Simon’s other stuff here.
