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Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi (b. 1956) has been documenting the Israel/Palestine conflict, and other issues in Israeli politics, since 1989. He has since made eight award-winning feature films and a number of shorts that forensically examine his home country's character and behaviour, and experiment with the documentary form. Juliet speaks to Mograbi about his life in cinema: how and why he chose film as his primary medium; how video and digital technology changed his practice; the logistics of getting his work funded and shown; and more.

WORKS REFERENCED

Most of Avi Mograbi's films are available via his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCYhnbhUeQTcysINT958qTA

Avi Mograbi filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595783/

AUGUSTO BOAL, Theatre of the Oppressed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed

Forensic Architecture: https://www.forensic-architecture.org/

Eyal Weizman: https://www.gold.ac.uk/visual-cultures/w-eizman/

In the July 2018 edition of Suite (212), Tom Overton talks to Mike Dibb (http://www.mikedibb.co.uk) about a documentary filmmaking career that has spanned more than fifty years. As well as directed John Berger's legendary BBC TV series 'Ways of Seeing' (1972), Dibb has adapted books by Raymond Williams and C.L.R. James, made documentaries about art, music and sport, and is currently making a film about artist Donny Johnson, who has spent almost his entire adult life in the U.S. prison system.

SELECTED REFERENCES

WORKS BY MIKE DIBB

About Time (1983-85) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=42

A Curious Mind - AS Byatt (1996) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=61

The Fame and Shame of Salvador Dalí (1997-98) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=63

The Miles Davis Story (2001) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=65

Fields of Play (1981-82) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=36

Seeing Through Drawing (1977-78) - http://www.mikesouthon.biz/portfolio/seeing-through-drawing

Ralph Steadman (Arena, 1977-78) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=26

Studs Terkel's Chicago (1985) - http://mediaburn.org/video/omnibus-studs-terkels-chicago-4/

Ways of Seeing (1972) - http://ubu.com/film/berger_seeing.html

Paul Barker (journalist/writer) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Barker_(writer)

WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1936) - https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

JOHN BERGER & JEAN MOHR, A Seventh Man: Migrant Workers in Europe (1975) - https://www.versobooks.com/books/533-a-seventh-man

Civilisation (TV series, 1968) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/04/civilisation-revisited-kenneth-clark-television-landmark-series-art

C.L.R. JAMES, Beyond a Boundary (1963) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/02/beyond-a-boundary-broke-cricket-barriers

Donny Johnson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donny_Johnson

F. R. LEAVIS - http://www.leavissociety.com/life-and-work/index.html

Lift to the Scaffold (dir. Louis Malle, 1958) - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/louis-malles-elevator-to-the-gallows-and-its-historic-miles-davis-soundtrack

George Melly - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jul/05/1

Malcolm Muggeridge - https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/15/obituaries/malcolm-muggeridge-writer-dies-at-87.html

Orchestra to the Orient (dir. David Attenborough, 1963) - https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bb311d02e65445d0b7a0ef1357feff5e

Sukhdev Sandhu on 'Ways of Seeing' - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/sep/07/ways-seeing-berger-tv-programme-british

The Stranger (dir. Orson Welles, 1946) - http://archive.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2010/10/10/reevaluating_orson_welless_near_perfect_stranger/

'De-Communisation' has become a central plank of government policy since 'Euromaidan' - the second revolution in Ukraine after independence from the USSR in 1991. Determination to erase not just the Soviet past but any possibility of left-wing radicalism is the one thing that unites the country's two largest political forces: one that represents European Union-facing neoliberalism, the other, violent Ukrainian nationalism. Often censored - or worse - during the 20th century, post-Soviet artists with socialist, feminist and/or utopian ideals have found themselves facing new forms of exclusion and oppression. How have they located themselves within the new cultural and political landscape?

In this episode, Juliet - on residency at the Izolyatsia cultural foundation (https://izolyatsia.org/en) in Kyiv, where it has been in exile from its home in Donetsk since the Russian occupation in 2014 - meets artist Maria Kulikovska (https://www.mariakulikovska.com), herself in exile from Crimea, and academic Jessica Zychowicz (https://www.jeszychowicz.com), author of 'Frame Work: Art, Activism, and Biopolitics in Inter-Revolutionary Kyiv 2004-2018' (Univ. of Toronto Press) to discuss the practicalities, problems and possibilities for artists in contemporary Ukraine.

On de-Communisation – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/ukraine-decommunisation-law-soviet

Donetsk People's Republic paramilitary takeover of Izolyatsia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GfeGF1QYP4

SELECTED REFERENCES

Ukrainian/Soviet modernist artists: Aleksandr Archipenko, David Burlyuk, Aleksandra Exter, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin

Executed Renaissance (inter-war literary movement) - http://euromaidanpress.com/longreads/executed-renaissance-in-ukraine/

Ivan (dir. Oleksandr Dovzhenko, 1932) - https://grunes.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/ivan-aleksandr-dovzhenko-1932/

Les Kurbas (theatre director) - http://www.kurbas.org.ua/en/centre.html

Mykola Skrypnyk - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Skrypnyk

Svetlana Alexeivich (memoirs)

Apartment 14 (young artist who inherited apartment)

Bu-Ba-Bu (poetry circle) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bu-Ba-Bu

David Chichkan - https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/euromaidan-art-exhibition-vandalized.html

Adam Curtis on Vladislav Surkov - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od4MWs7qTr8

Euromaidan. Rough Cut (2014 film) - https://vimeo.com/90920946

Mayo Fryderyk – dressed as general, orange dwarf

Grey Horses (dir. Mykola Ridnyi, 2016) - http://www.mykolaridnyi.com/video-works/grey-horses-1

Hometown (dir. Metahaven, 2018) - https://izolyatsia.org/en/project/hometown/hometown/

Hudrada (curatorial unit)

SERHIY KOVALCHUK (ed.), Reimagining Utopias: Theory and Method for Educational Research in Post-Soviet Contexts (2017)

CZESLAW MILOSZ, The Captive Mind (1953) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind

MYKHAILO MINAKOV, Development and Dystopia: Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe (2018) - http://www.minakovphilosophy.com/

Ofanziba group (Ukraine)

Orange Alternative - https://culture.pl/en/article/the-orange-alternative-there-is-no-freedom-without-dwarfs

Valentina Petrova

Pomoranchova (Polish poetry group)

Revolutionary Experimental Space (REP) - https://www.thegreenbox.net/en/books/rep-revolutionary-experimental-space

SOSka art collective (Kharkiv) - http://www.mykolaridnyi.com/curatorial-projects/soska-group

The Sprawl (Propaganda about Propaganda) (dir. Metahaven, 2015) - http://sprawl.space/about-the-sprawl/

Ukrainian Body exhibition - http://vcrc.org.ua/en/ukrbody/

Lesya Ukrainka

Voina - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voina

HAYDEN WHITE, The Content of the Form (1987)

One of the more intriguing - and most Lacanian - slogans that appeared in Paris in May 1968 declared 'Il est interdit d'interdire' - 'It is forbidden to forbid'. In this follow-up to our recent Resonance 104.4fm show about the insurrections, Juliet Jacques talks to curator/writer Paul Clinton about his 'Forbidden to Forbid' exhibition, how May '68 launched a decade of queer radicalism, the tensions within its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender elements, and its eventual collapse amidst the HIV/AIDS crisis and the decline of the wider French left.

SELECTED REFERENCES

MICHEL FOUCAULT, History of Sexuality vols. I-IV (1976-84)

GUY HOCQUENGHEM, Homosexual Desire (1972) - https://libcom.org/files/Hocquenghem%20-%20Homosexual%20Desire.pdf

Ixe (dir. Lionel Soukaz, 1980) - http://ubu.com/film/soukaz_ixe.html

PIERRE KLOSSOWSKI, La Monnaie vivante (1970) - https://frieze.com/article/illicit-trade

Race d'Ep (dir. Lionel Soukaz & Guy Hocquenghem, 1979) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJvcrubBS5g

Oreet Ashery - 'Party for Freedom' (performance/film) - https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/oreet-ashery_s-party-for-freedom

Djuna Barnes

Roland Barthes

Georges Bataille

André Baudry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Baudry

Bazooka (punk graphic design group) - http://www.bazookadesign.com/en/

JULIAN BOURG, From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought (2007) - https://networks.h-net.org/node/6873/reviews/7477/swoboda-bourg-revolution-ethics-may-1968-and-contemporary-french-thought

CLAUDE CAHUN, Disavowals (1930) - http://quarterlyconversation.com/claude-cahun-disavowals

RENAUD CAMUS, The Great Replacement (2008) - https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12604/renaud-camus-interview

RENAUS CAMUS, Tricks: 25 Encounters (1979) - https://frieze.com/article/tricks

Jean Cocteau

Colette

Beth Collar

COPI, Eva Perón - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/music-and-performance/2012/04/parodying-eva-per%C3%B3n

Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari

Guillaume Dustan - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460715569138

Tony Duvert - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=37

Front for Revolutionary Homosexual Action (FHAR) - http://www.notbored.org/caress-yourself.html

Jean Genet - http://ubu.com/film/genet.html

Genet parle d'Angela Davis (dir. Carole Roussopoulos, 1970)

ANDRÉ GIDE, Corydon (1920) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corydon_(book)

Michel Houellebecq

MARCEL JOUHANDEAU, De l'abjection (1939) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Jouhandeau

Jacques Lacan

JEAN-FRANÇOIS LYOTARD, Libidinal Economy (1974) - https://monoskop.org/images/c/c4/Lyotard_Jean-Francois_Libidinal_Economy.pdf

Herbert Marcuse

Pierre Molinier - http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8019/the-forbidden-photo-collages-of-pierre-molinier

Panic movement: Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Roland Topor

Marcel Proust

Wilhelm Reich

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET, A Sentimental Novel (2007) - http://www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2014/4/29/alain-robbe-grillets-a-sentimental-novel

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET, Le voyeur (1955) - https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2819/alain-robbe-grillet-the-art-of-fiction-no-91-alain-robbe-grillet

Giles Round

RENÉ SCHÉRER, Émile perverti (1974) - http://www.ina.fr/video/I14036845

Gertrude Stein

Surrealist authors: André Breton, René Crevel, Benjamin Péret, Jacques Prévert, Raymond Queneau

Sheila Heti's new novel 'Motherhood' (Henry Holt/Harvill Secker, 2018) is a formally inventive, deeply personal exploration of a woman's decision about whether to have children. It builds on the success of her 'novel from life', 'How Should a Person Be?' and confirms her as one of the most interesting and exciting authors of the 21st century. In our June 2018 episode, Juliet talks to Sheila about her new book and her life in writing.

WORKS BY SHEILA HETI

The Middle Stories (2001)

Ticknor: A Novel (2005)

How Should a Person Be? (2010)

The Chairs are Where the People Go (2011)

We Need a Horse (2011)

Women in Clothes (2014, co-edited with Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton)

All Our Happy Days are Stupid (2015)

Motherhood (2018)

Kathy Acker

Thomas Bernhard

Cool Runnings (dir. Jon Turteltaub, 1993)

Rachel Cusk

Dave Eggers

'The Hills' (TV series, 2006-10)

JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015)

JULIET JACQUES, 'The Woman in the Portrait'

Karl Ove Knausgaard

CHRIS KRAUS, I Love Dick (1997)

Ben Lerner

Herman Melville

Henry Miller

Joe Orton

Willam H. Prescott - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Prescott

NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 'The Age of Suspicion' (1963) - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/03/05/nathalie-sarraute/

George Ticknor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ticknor

Margaux Williamson - http://www.margauxwilliamson.com/

In May 1968, demonstrations at the University of Nanterre, triggered a wave of protests across Paris and elsewhere in France, that have loomed in the imaginations of the Western European left.

This month, Juliet talks to Mitchell Abidor, author of May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France (https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745336947/may-made-me/) about the relationship between the protests and film: how André Malraux's decision to fire Henri Langlois from the Cinemathèque fed into the insurrection; how far the Provos, Lettrists and Situationists influenced the protests; how the likes of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker changed their practice after May '68; and the feminist and queer filmmakers and groups that emerged in its wake.

WORKS REFERENCED:

FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT, Stolen Kisses (1968) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCELURpFlrs

HERBERT MARCUSE, One-Dimensional Man (1964)

Provos (Robert Jasper Grootveld) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omb23Qm_RG8

GUY DEBORD, The Society of the Spectacle (1967)

RAOUL VANEIGEM, The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967)

Jean-Jacques Lebel – https://frieze.com/article/jean-jacques-lebel

Louis Althusser

ISIDORE ISOU, ‘Lettrism and the Youth Uprising of 68’ – https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3794-lettrism-and-the-youth-uprising-of-68

ISIDORE ISOU, A Treatise on Venom and Eternity (1951) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy7XrmOqgyc

GIL J. WOLMAN, L’Anti-concept (1952) - http://www.notbored.org/anticoncept.html

GUY DEBORD, Howlings in Favour of Sade (1952) – http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/howls.htm

Lettrist International, ‘No More Flat Feet!’ (on Chaplin) – http://www.notbored.org/no-more-flat-feet.html

Louis Aragon – https://radicalarchives.org/2013/09/22/aragon-vs-the-68-students/

COSTA-GAVRAS, Z (1969) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065234/

DZIGA VERTOV GROUP, Pravda (1970) - http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/pravda.html

Eisenstein, Pudovkin & Aleksandrov manifesto – http://tmckosky.asp.radford.edu/thea180/SergieCarSound.htm

Vera Chytilová – http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/vera-chytilova-beginners

CHRIS MARKER, À bientôt, j’espère (1967) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063854/

JEAN RENOIR, La Vie est à nous (1936) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Belongs_to_Us

Cinétracts (1968) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12TB0cICec

Michel Andrieu and Group ARC – collective filmmaking group

États Généraux du cinema

La Reprise du travail aux Wonder (1968) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQdby-9ihFk

WILLIAM KLEIN, Grands soirs et petit matins (1977) - http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/william-klein-films-1958-99/william-klein-maydays-grands-soirs-petits-matins

ROMAIN GOUPIL, Mourir à 30 ans (1982) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_a_Life_(film)

João Moreira Salles, In the Intense Now (2017) - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/movies/in-the-intense-now-review-documentary.html

HERVÉ LA ROUX, La Reprise (1996)

CAROLE ROUSSOPOULOS, SCUM Manifesto (1976)

CAROLE ROUSSOPOULOS, Genet Talks about Angela Davis (1971)

RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER, Eight Hours are Not a Day (1972) - https://newsocialist.org.uk/dialectical-soap-operas-rainer-werner-fassbinder-on-tv/

Vidéa and Vidéo Out – French feminist film collectives

Delphine Seyrig – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_Seyrig

LIONEL SOUKAZ, La Race d’ep (1979) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJvcrubBS5g

MARCO BELLOCCHIO, Good Morning, Night (2003) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Morning,_Night

CHRIS MARKER, A Grin Without a Cat (1977) – https://chrismarker.org/chris-marker-2/chris-markers-grin-without-cat-revives-revolution-making-history-paul-arthur/

CHRIS DARKE, 'Three Images of May: Cinema and the Uprising' – https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/volume-3-issue-9-spring-summer-2008/three-images-of-may-cinema-and-the-uprising/

Murals at Nanterre - https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-spirit-of-68-nanterre-street-art/

In the April 2018 edition of Suite (212), returning host Juliet Jacques talks to artist, musician and filmmaker Larry Achiampong and dancer/performer Alexandrina Hemsley (of Project O) about race, racism and the arts.

(Cover image: 'Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features' by Adrian Piper, 1981)

WORKS REFERENCED:

LARRY ACHIAMPONG & DAVID BLANDY: Biters - http://www.larryachiampong.co.uk/list-of-artworks/biters

LARRY ACHIAMPONG & DAVID BLANDY: Finding Fanon, parts I-III - https://vimeo.com/138951543

LARRY ACHIAMPONG: Relic Traveller - http://larryachiampong.co.uk/list-of-artworks/voyage-of-the-relic-traveller

ALEXANDRINA HEMSLEY: Feminist Shakedown - http://feministshakedown.tumblr.com/

ALEXANDRINA HEMSLEY & SEKE CHIMUTENGWENDE: Black Holes - www.blackholes.co.uk

JAY BERNARD: Surge - Side A - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/05/speaking-out-jay-bernard-surge-side-a-poet

BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE: Handsworth Songs, Part I (1986) - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/134049237625/black-audio-film-collective-handsworth-songs

RENI EDDO-LODGE, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People abour Race [2014 blog post] - http://renieddolodge.co.uk/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race/

STUART HALL & MAGGIE STEED: It Ain't Half Racist Mum - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/133964781230/stuart-hall-it-aint-half-racist-mum-1979

CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS: Women Who Run with the Wolves - https://medium.com/@kami_leon/13-reasons-why-you-should-read-women-who-run-with-the-wolves-instead-36435ea32b4

ADRIAN PIPER: 'Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features' - http://adrianpiperarted.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/self-portrait-exaggerating-my-negroid.html

NIKESH SHUKLA (ed.): The Good Immigrant - https://unbound.com/books/the-good-immigrant/

Sutapa Biswas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutapa_Biswas

Sonia Boyce: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/sonia-boyce-ra

Octavia Butler: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/mar/16/guardianobituaries.bookscomment

Lubaina Himid: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lubaina-himid-2356/turner-prize-2017-biography

Sabrina Mahfouz: http://www.sabrinamahfouz.com/

Pauline Mayers: https://paulinemayers.wordpress.com/

Wangechi Mutu: http://www.ubu.com/film/mutu.html

Network 11 (Junior Boakye-Yiadom, Beverly Bennett and others): https://ntwrk11.wordpress.com

Kamile Ofoeme: https://vimeo.com/user35307978

Selina Thompson: http://selinathompson.co.uk/

Akeim Toussaint Buck: http://www.toussainttomove.com/

Priyamvada Gopal's response to the Daily Mail - https://medium.com/@zen.catgirl/my-heartfelt-thanks-to-the-hundreds-of-people-who-have-sent-their-solidarity-and-support-via-email-5f9739ec5dba

Ash Sarkar on the BBC and Enoch Powell - https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bbc-enoch-powell-rivers-of-blood-racism-brexit-wrong-to-run-it-a8302766.html

Kit de Waal interview (Guardian) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/24/kit-de-waal-interview-the-trick-to-time

Tate, 'The Other Story' exhibition (1989) - http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/no-12/the-other-story-and-the-past-imperfect

Tate Modern, 'Soul of a Nation' exhibition (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/16/soul-of-a-nation-art-in-the-age-of-black-power-tate-modern-review

Guest host Tom Overton discusses the legacy of writer and translator Anya Berger (1923-2018), and issues around literary translation with Esther Leslie, author of 'Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism', and writer, poet, editor and curator Jen Calleja, who is currently Translator in Residence at the British Library.

WORKS REFERENCED

Tom Overton on Anya Berger (Frieze) - https://frieze.com/article/life-margins / https://frieze.com/article/anya-berger-1923-2018

Name the Translator campaign - https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/name-the-translator

Theodor W. Adorno

SVETLANA ALEXEIVICH, Second-Hand Time (2013, trans. Bela Shayevich) - https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/from-second-hand-time-by-svetlana-alexievich-1/

Roland Barthes

Charles Baudelaire

WALTER BENJAMIN, The Storyteller (2016) - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2101-the-storyteller

WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Task of the Translator' (1923)

WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1936) - https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

John Berger - poetry - https://smokestack-books.co.uk/book.php?book=93

John Berger, 'Ways of Seeing' (TV series, 1972) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk

KATE BRIGGS, This Little Art (2017) - http://www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2018/1/18/kate-briggs-this-little-art

AIMÉ CESAIRÉ - Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (1939) - https://archipelagobooks.org/book/return-to-my-native-land/

HANS MAGNUS ENZENBERGER, Short Summer of Anarchy - https://libcom.org/history/brief-summer-anarchy-life-death-durruti-hans-magnus-enzensberger

Sigmund Freud

Stefan George - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_George

Franz Hessel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hessel

HOMER, The Odyssey (trans. Emily Wilson) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/08/the-odyssey-translated-emily-wilson-review

Kleenex/LiLiPUT (Swiss post-punk band) / Marlene Marder

ESTHER LESLIE, Walter Benjamin (2007) - https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/esther-leslie-walter-benjamin.pdf

Helen Lowe-Porter (American translator) - http://www.freeburn.biz/the-curious-case-of-helen-lowe-porter/

Thomas Mann

Herbert Marcuse

Joachim Meyerhoff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Meyerhoff

MARION POSCHMAN, Pine Islands (2017, trans. Jen Calleja) - http://www.goethe.de/kue/lit/prj/lit/b17/en16515289.htm

MARCEL PROUST, À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27)

Gregory Rabassa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Rabassa

Revolutionary History (journal) - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backissu.htm

Spare Rib - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/28/british-library-spare-rib-feminist-magazine-online

MICHELLE STEINBECK, My Father was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water (2016, trans. Jen Calleja)

TA First Translation Prize - https://societyofauthors.org/News/News/2018/January/TA-First-Translation-Prize-shortlist

LEON TROTSKY, 1905 (1907, trans. Anya Bostock) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1907/1905/index.htm

Tristan Tzara

Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs (2008, trans. Esther Leslie) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jan/27/society

PETER WEISS, The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975-81) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aesthetics_of_Resistance

WIM WENDERS, The Pixels of Paul Cézanne (2018, trans. Jen Calleja) - https://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/6496/s/9780571336463-the-pixels-of-paul-c-zanne/category/182/

Stefan Zweig

Juliet talks to Owen Hatherley (author of 'Militant Modernism', 'A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain', 'Landscapes of Communism' and many other books) and David Stubbs (formerly of Melody Maker, and a writer on '1996 and the End of History' as well as Krautrock and electronic music) about the life and work of Mark E. Smith, who sadly died last month.

They discuss The Fall in the context of post-industrial Manchester, the post-punk scene, a changing (and ever less intelligent) music press, modernist literature and pop culture, and think about the group's legacy.

WORKS REFERENCED

LoneLady - Hinterland (2015) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W6w8fQauwg

Julie Campbell on Mark E. Smith - http://lonelady.co.uk/blog/rip-mark-e-smith-5th-march-1957-24th-january-2018/

The Fall discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_discography

Mark E. Smith reads the football scores - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUiPs1PxKo

'I feel like Alan Minter' graffiti - https://rollerderbyonfilm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/i-feel-like-alan-minter.html

1970s graffiti - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/03/the-writing-on-the-wall-1970s-pioneers-of-british-graffiti

J. G. Ballard

William Blake

Thomas Carlyle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle

Michael Clark

C86 (NME compilation tape, 1986)

Philip K. Dick

FRIEDRICH ENGELS, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/condition-working-class-england.pdf

Gang of Four, 'Entertainment!' (LP, 1979)

Antonio Gramsci

George Grosz

Wyndham Lewis

H. P. Lovecraft

FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI, 'The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism' (1909)

The Passage, 'Troops Out' (7", 1981) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXBTFNE7qr0

Ezra Pound

SIMON REYNOLDS, Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84 (2005)

Sex Pistols, 'God Save the Queen' (7", 1977)

DAVE SIMPSON, The Fallen (2008)

MARK E. SMITH, Renegade (2008)

Talking Heads, Remain in Light (LP, 1980)

In the January 2018 episode, Juliet is joined by Jonathan Coe (author of 'Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson' and many other works) and Jennifer Hodgson (editor of 'The Unmapped Country', a collection of stories and fragments by Ann Quin). They discuss Britain's fertile post-war 'experimental' literary scene: its cultural contexts, its successes and failures, and its legacy.

WORKS REFERENCED

NOVELS

Paul Ableman – I Hear Voices (1958)

Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim (1954)

Francis Booth - Amongst Those Left: The British Experimental Novel 1940-1980 (1982)

John Braine – Room at the Top (1957)

Alan Burns – The Angry Brigade: A Documentary Novel (1974)

Robert Burton – The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

Jonathan Coe – An Accidental Woman (1987)

Jonathan Coe – Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson (2004)

Jonathan Coe – What a Carve-Up! (1994)

Henry Green - Caught (1943)

Rayner Heppenstall – The Blaze of Noon (1939)

Rayner Heppenstall – Four Absentees (1960)

Rayner Heppenstall – The Fourfold Tradition (1961)

Rayner Heppenstall – The Lesser Infortune (1953)

Rayner Heppenstall – Saturnine (1943)

Rayner Heppenstall & Michael Innes – Three Tales of Hamlet (1950)

B. S. Johnson – Aren’t You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs? (1973)

B. S. Johnson – Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (1971)

B. S. Johnson – See the Old Lady Decently (1973)

B. S. Johnson – Travelling People (1963)

B. S. Johnson – The Unfortunates (1969)

Anna Kavan – Ice (1967)

D. H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)

Rosamund Lehmann – The Echoing Grove (1953)

Iris Murdoch – Under the Net (1954)

George Orwell – Animal Farm (1945)

John Osborne – Look Back in Anger (1956)

Ann Quin – Berg (1964)

Ann Quin – Passages (1969)

Ann Quin – Three (1966)

Ann Quin – Tripticks (1972)

Ann Quin – The Unmapped Country (edited by Jennifer Hodgson, 2018)

Alan Sillitoe – Raw Material (1972)

Alan Sillitoe – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)

Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1766)

David Storey – This Sporting Life (1960)

Philip Tew, B. S. Johnson: A Critical Reading (2001)

John Wain – Hurry On Down (1953)

Colin Wilson – The Outsider (1956)

AUTHORS (a selection)

J. G. Ballard, Richard Beard, Samuel Beckett, Rosalind Belben, John Berger, Claire-Louise Bennett, Christine Brooke-Rose, Elizabeth Bowen, Anthony Burgess, William S. Burroughs, John Calder, Angela Carter, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Robert Creeley, Marguerite Duras, Eva Figes, Patrick Hamilton, Wilson Harris, James Joyce, Chris Kraus, Hari Kunzru, David Lodge, Eimear McBride, Nicholas Mosley, Thomas Nash, Jeff Nuttall, Robert Nye, Flann O'Brien, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Will Self, Penelope Shuttle, Claude Simon, Stevie Smith, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Swift, Emma Tennant, Philip Toynbee, Alexander Trocchi, John Wheway, Heathcote Williams

FILMS/TV

B. S. Johnson on Samuel Johnson (London Weekend Television programme, 1971)

Calling Mr. Smith (dir. Franciszka & Stefan Themerson, 1943)

Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (dir. Paul Tickell, 2001)

The Eye and the Ear (dir. Franciszka & Stefan Themerson, 1944)

Last Year in Marienbad (dir. Alain Resnais, 1961)

London Film-Makers' Co-operative

Peter Whitehead

Independent Group (British Pop Art collective, 1952-55)

ARTICLES

Hélène Cixous, ‘Le roman experimental de Grand-Bretagne’ (Le Monde, 1967)