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Transition H50 (2016) by Jessica Eaton<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 One of my weekend posts in 2012 contained details about Taking Tiger Mountain<\/em>, a low-budget feature film put together in 1983 by Tom Huckabee using footage originally shot in Tangier and Wales in the 1970s. Huckabee’s film is a strange “experimental” work of science fiction, based in part on William Burroughs’ Blade Runner<\/em> script (no relation to the Ridley Scott film apart from the title), and described here<\/a> as “a psychotropic apocalyptic odyssey”. The most notable aspect of the film for many will be the presence of a young Bill Paxton in the lead role, something I was reminded of when Paxton’s death was announced earlier this week. Five years ago there was only a short clip of\u00a0Taking Tiger Mountain<\/em> available on YouTube but since then a full copy has appeared; watch it here<\/a> while you can. (The widescreen frame is cropped, and the sound is all in one channel but it’s still watchable.) Tom Huckabee talked about the film’s production (and the Burroughs connections) to Beatdom<\/a>. A curio that deserves wider attention.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “With Biller, the references come thick and fast. In The Love Witch<\/em>, she channels, among others, 50s Hitchcock, Douglas Sirk\u2019s lurid lushness, Rainer Werner Fassbinder\u2019s deadpan gaze, Nicholas Ray\u2019s poetry, Sam Fuller\u2019s tabloid style and Todd Haynes\u2019s revisionist sexual politics. […] Then add the Technicolor, widescreen, haute-Hollywood \u201cwomen\u2019s pictures\u201d of the 50s, a touch of Hammer Studios, The Wicker Man<\/em>, Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/em> and any number of studio melodramas and musicals.” John Patterson talks to director Anna Biller<\/a> about her new film, The Love Witch<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week is the Anxious Heart Mix by Moon Wiring Club<\/a>, another excellent blend of electronica, industria and dialogue samples from the outer limits of the televisual sphere. Also of note this week: VF Mix 83, an Adrian Sherwood selection by Pinch<\/a>, XLR8R Podcast 479 by Chris SSG<\/a>, and Secret Thirteen Mix 213 by -N<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Anthropologically, this was going on all around me: it was amazing and nobody was dealing with it like that, so I just went for it.” Hal Fischer<\/a> on his photo-art series, Gay Semiotics<\/em>, which is on display at Project Native Informant<\/a>, London, until 1st April.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Coming in May from Luaka Bop<\/a>, World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda<\/em>, the first-ever compilation of Alice Coltrane’s scarce releases on the Avatar Book Institute<\/a> label.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cinephilia<\/a> looks back at Robert Wise and Nelson Gidding’s film of The Andromeda Strain<\/em> (1971).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Psychedelic Speed Freak: Remembering the blistering experimentalism of Hideo Ikeezumi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More witchery: S. Elizabeth talks to Pam Grossman<\/a> about art, film and hex power.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At The Quietus: Harry Sword on the strange world of Surgeon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Leonor Fini playing cards<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Feathered Tiger<\/a><\/em> (1969) by Kaleidoscope | Taking Tiger Mountain<\/a><\/em> (1974) by Brian Eno | Plain Tiger<\/a><\/em> (1985) by Cocteau Twins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Transition H50 (2016) by Jessica Eaton. \u2022 One of my weekend posts in 2012 contained details about Taking Tiger Mountain, a low-budget feature film put together in 1983 by Tom Huckabee using footage originally shot in Tangier and Wales in the 1970s. Huckabee’s film is a strange “experimental” work of science fiction, based in part … Continue reading “Weekend links 350”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,28,29,7,5,3,16,12,20],"tags":[8756,1593,637,8688,3532,1861,145,8755,831,8757,8761,8760,8753,1503,574,5937,730,8758,1019,8759,3552,8754,747,3175,1852,5024,3531,1190],"class_list":["post-18238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-burroughs","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-music","category-occult","category-photography","category-science-fiction","tag-n","tag-adrian-sherwood","tag-alice-coltrane","tag-anna-biller","tag-bill-paxton","tag-blade-runner","tag-brian-eno","tag-chris-ssg","tag-cocteau-twins","tag-hal-fischer","tag-harry-sword","tag-hideo-ikeezumi","tag-jessica-eaton","tag-john-patterson","tag-kaleidoscope","tag-kaleidoscope-uk-group","tag-leonor-fini","tag-luaka-bop","tag-moon-wiring-club","tag-nelson-gidding","tag-pam-grossman","tag-pinch","tag-ridley-scott","tag-robert-wise","tag-s-elizabeth","tag-surgeon-musician","tag-tom-huckabee","tag-william-burroughs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Ka","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}