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I started a film school

Unfound Peoples Videotechnic (UPV) is a roaming absurdist film and video academy.

At the moment, it is mostly run via newsletter. Our Substack mailing list is a pipeline for esoteric filmmaking knowledge and technique.

You can sign up here: https://unfoundvideo.substack.com/about

Each Monday, you might expect to receive a single email including any or all of the following:

One or more micro-essays exploring a particular aspect of filmmaking from an unlikely angle.

Updates and news about the school, including notices about publications and (online) lectures.

Tip-offs about funds and screenings.

Curated links to broaden your filmmaking horizons.

Good cheer and camaraderie.

A disconcertingly freeform approach to the bullet-point list.

The school labours in the dust stirred by filmmakers and writers such as Tarr, Maddin, Weerasethakul, Deren, Muratova, Lynch, the Kuchars, Kraus (Chris), Borges, Perec, Jarry, and so on. If you like that kind of thing.

Who is this?

For the most part, it is the principal, Graeme Cole: failed-filmmaker-turned-guru, MFA graduate of Béla Tarr’s glorious, doomed film.factory, festival veteran, etc.

Partner organisations include Kino Klub Split and the Slow Film Festival, while the school has previously received support from Arts Council England.

Who am I?

You, the reader and potential subscriber? You might be an eager art school student or a jaded late-career Hollywood filmmaker. You might be looking for inspiration or feeding your habit for gentle procrastination. You might be a teacher of film, art, or artists’ moving image and sound. You might be a bot; you might be very, very lost.

Here's the archive of filmmaking micro-essays. Do sign up!

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Epizoda ? featured in Slow Film Festival online retrospective

Epizoda ? played for one day only as part of the fabulous Slow Film Festival’s lockdown special.

It’s gone now. However, the film is available to watch on Vimeo, and I cribbed the festival’s intro for it - so this is nearly as good.

"Mr Graeme Cole has cornered the cardboard market of sublime lo-fi effulgence: his films are forever falling apart. And as they crumble so do the conventions and aspirations of all of the rest of cinema. Epizoda ? (please observe that untethered question mark) is as destructive as the rest of his oeuvre."

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MIA Screens features A Flea Orchestra In Your Ear

The first episode of our infinite serial UNIVERSAL EAR is currently being showcased through the MIA Screens series. I wrote a new introduction for it. That is all.

https://movingimageartists.co.uk/2020/04/24/mia-screens-graeme-cole/

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My latest underground film, artist moving image (and significant sound), or matinee adventure serial episode - whatever you want to call it - will have its world festival premiere at IndieLisboa this May.

The Curse of the Phantom Tympanum premieres at IndieLisboa

The latest episode of UNIVERSAL EAR to be pre-constructed in our itinerant lab will have its world festival premiere in Lisbon. Come and see it while you can, because heaven knows the powers that be will try to EXTINGUISH this project before it reaches the mass audience it so richly deserves. More info on this episode next door: http://alltheworldsmusicever.com/tympanum

EVENT: UNIVERSAL EAR: The Curse of the Phantom Tympanum at IndieLisboa ‘19. PROGRAM: International Shorts

WHERE: Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório, Edifício-sede da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Rua Arco do Cego, 50, 1000–300 Lisbon

WHEN: Sunday 5th May, 2019, 21.45 & Wednesday 8th May, 2019, 17.00

COST: €4.50

NOTES: Writer/Director Graeme Cole will be in attendance for the Sunday screening (and potential intro/Q&A duty). Composer/co-sound designer Nina Queissner is likely to be around for the Wednesday screening.

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Oh yeah, the first film I wrote/directed at Béla Tarr‘s film.factory in Sarajevo is now streaming on the fabulous art film platform Tao Films.

Watch it here!

It’s an absurdist detective movie about a cop who can’t stop crying. The very structure of the show is infected with his breakdown. So it’s daft, but also experimental. You will laugh, but also be irritated. It’s around 40 minutes long. It has original music by Dino Santaleza of Croatian band Pridjevi, and stars Vladimir Kajević and Elma Selman.

There are plenty of other movies from Mr Tarr’s protégés and others of comparable ilk, so it’s worth getting a month pass and binging the lot since it only costs €1 more than watching this film alone.

This movie played at at Rencontres Bandits-Mages in Bourges, France, L'Alternativa (Barcelona), and the Auteur Film Festival in Belgrade among others. Most recently, it showed on a looping VHS cassette during my solo exhibition at the Slow Short Film Festival.

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Trailer for the new film, book, & exhibition. (Book available until 2nd Dec only! - link in bio). Harley Byrne heads to 22nd-century France to record the electroacoustic pop of a duo of sentient statues - but is cursed into a polyauthentic virtual heritage themepark where he must struggle to save his legacy. #artistfilm #scifi #book #absurdism #exhibition #curseofthephantomtympanum #alltheworldsmusicever https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqe6-D4lkAh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qajm56psb9qs

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Bit slow on the old promo. My UNIVERSAL EAR project is currently enjoying a cross-media presence in Bourges and the ether. Here’s the science (fiction).

UNIVERSAL EAR studios return to Bourges for exhibition & book launch

The UNIVERSAL EAR studio is back in Bourges and preparing for our biggest exhibition yet (and shooting Aleksandra Niemczyk’s new movie)!

The exhibition takes place from November 16th-December 2nd and will include the unveiling of the newest, biggest, most foolhardy episode to date: THE CURSE OF THE PHANTOM TYMPANUM. It is part of Rencontres Bandits-Mages 2018 - *Mending the Fabric of the World: Unstable Reality and Shifting Knowledges*, which promises to be a fabulous event.

The first UNIVERSAL EAR book will also be available in a TEMPORALLY LIMITED EDITION, for 21 days only!

We’ll keep you involved here, but you can also follow and respond on our other platforms:

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/universalear/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/UNIVERSAL_EAR

ALL NEW Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alltheworldsmusicever/

Or drop by to our studio & eventual exhibition space at Le Haïdouc to say Bonjour.

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#abstract #tabletop #collaborativeart https://www.instagram.com/p/BnOMFACB18z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gm4qfl4fycll

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Setting up my exhibition in Mayfield. Tomorrow only! zoomcitta.co.uk for details. Part of the wonderful Slow Short #FilmFestival. #videoart #slowcinema #installation (at Mayfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnJxWEjhI1z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=utr330hvdcoy

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Goodbye old view. Your clouds were rarely less than spectacular. (at Worcester Park)

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Traces/spaces for faces. (at Worcester Park)

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Clearing out the family home, my teenage wallpaper popped out to say goodbye. (at Worcester Park)

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#dogsofRembrandt #firstinbed #Henio #pug #mops #polishdog

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Magic social realism.

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A 2015 film.factory essay of mine has appeared online. I put it there. It is about how the marvellous films Playtime and Themroc reflect ideas about urbanism, modernity, and revolution through their sound design. Fascinating!

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YOU MY GOLD #flashback (at Zadar County)

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