Author Archives: bkp

Hello and welcome to the Bioskop!

The Bioskop Presents… is a series of special themed events using cinema, music, site specific locations, performance, games and experiments – aimed at taking us all somewhere we haven’t been before. You’ll be able to read more about us here. … Continue reading

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Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

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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les maitres fous

Here’s Les Maitres Fous from 1955, like many Rouch films the meaning of what you’re watching suddenly takes on a different light at the end of the film.

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hen and pig factories in the USA

David Kirby talks about CAFOs in the Mid-West USA… CAFO – Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation is any farming operation with over 1,000 “animal units” ( 1 animal unit = 1 beef cow = 50 young pigs) The above interview on … Continue reading

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two cooks and a cabbage

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Jean Rouch

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

This is our favourite Peaches’ video, Lose you where our hero turns her bedroom into an expanded cinema… This footage of her live on the Henry Rollins’ show is astounding too…

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screen test

The mysterious Bioskop has been out and about looking for the right site for its launch event The Bioskop Provokes… films in the woods which is going to take place at 7pm on Sunday 19th September. Directions to the site … Continue reading

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semiotics of the kitchen

An A to Z by Martha Rosler, 1975

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Bruno S

Bruno Schleinstein was one of the most extraordinary screen actors of all time.  His  presence in the two films he made with Werner Herzog, The Enigma of Kasper Hauser in 1974 and Stroszek in 1977 transport these films far beyond … Continue reading

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