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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.4.197
Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 03:07 pm:   

This is a weird and quite fascinating art project I stumbled on last year, I thought some of you might find it pretty interesting.

"Synopsis
The Devil's Plantation is May Miles Thomas' homage to her native city of Glasgow. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council's Creative Scotland Award, this interactive project is a unique exploration of place, time and memory.

Inspired by 'Glasgow's Secret Geometry: The City's Oldest Mystery', Miles Thomas sets out to reconstruct author, Harry Bell's theory that the city aligns to a now-invisible network of ancient sites. However, the filmmaker's chance discovery of a discarded file on ex-psychiatric patient, Mary Ross, brings insight into a wholly different quest for meaning. The result is a compelling psychogeographic journey that both explores the nature of storytelling and reveals the hidden design that eluded Harry Bell."

http://www.devilsplantation.co.uk/
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 04:02 pm:   

The best genre novel ever written on this theme of the secret geometry of the world's great cities is Fritz Leiber's 'Our Lady Of Darkness', David, about San Francisco rather than Glasgow.

Also Christopher Fowler has spent his career revealing the hidden avenues and symbolism around which his home city of London has grown. To particularly magnificent effect in the Bryant & May novels - in which the city is as much a principal character as the two leads.

And of course never forgetting our Ramsey's disturbing take on the great city of Liverpool.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 04:24 pm:   

Or as Jung dubbed it, "the pool of life".
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Mrsix (Mrsix)
Username: Mrsix

Registered: 07-2013
Posted From: 92.28.165.86
Posted on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 12:24 am:   

There a screening of The Devils Plantation as part of a Psychogeography night in Glasgow on the 27th July. It's well worth it for the Film alone.


http://www.psychetecture.com/

A Night of Psychogeographical Exploration in music from The Psychogeographical Commission and Glasgow sound artist Caroline McKenzie, with a showing of the feature film ‘The Devil’s Plantation’ by BAFTA winning filmmaker May Miles Thomas, with an Introduction to Psychogeography by Dr David Manderson.

Tickets
£8/£6 (+ booking fee) from http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/398195

The Devil’s Plantation
A feature film based on May Miles Thomas’ BAFTA-winning website, The Devil’s Plantation promises an unforgettable journey into the hidden corners of Glasgow. It tells the true story of amateur archaeologist Harry Bell whose self-published book Glasgow’s Secret Geometry describes his obsessive search for a secret network of aligned sites traversing the city. The original work changed course after the discovery of an abandoned casefile belonging to ex-psychiatric patient Mary Ross whose long walks in the city mirrored those of Bell. Narrated by Kate Dickie and Gary Lewis, the film lovingly captures the spirit of the dérive (unplanned journey or drift) and like any good excursion arrives at a satisfying and surprising conclusion.
http://www.devilsplantation.co.uk/blog/

The Psychogeographical Commission
The Psychogeographical Commission are well known for high-concept recordings based around London (‘Genius Loci’), the psychological effect of the second half of a year (‘Patient Zero’) and the Occult origins of the Glasgow Subway System (‘Widdershins’). For this appearance they will be soundtracking a film based around two journeys through Maryhill, intertwining the past with what they found whilst walking.
http://www.psychetecture.com/widders.html
http://www.facebook.com/Psychcomm

Caroline McKenzie
Caroline has lived close to the River Clyde for just over a decade. In that time, she has crossed its bridges many, many times and 2 new ones have been built. For her set, she will be considering these bridges and the halfway point they represent; they are inherently transitional and yet we cross them without a thought.

David Manderson
"David's remarkable debut novel, Lost Bodies (Kennedy & Boyd) has a rare quality which takes it into two camps that critics usually keep apart, it’s both a literary novel and a compelling page turner and well worth adding to your reading pile if, like me, you’re beginning to turn away from genre-defined fiction and looking at new ways of telling stories.In the Guardian Review last August in the pre-publicity surrounding Umbrella, Will Self generated a good debate about 'the failure of modernist fiction' and wrote about his anxiety in finding the right form. He ought to add Lost Bodies to his TBR pile."
Bookrambler, Northwords Now
http://davidtmanderson.wordpress.com/
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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.35.223
Posted on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 02:05 pm:   

That sounds interesting but the chances of me making it are pretty slim, unfortunately :-(

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