Video montage – Hit The North

Cat Videos for Cat People

In a week where I received some bad news, I find myself retreating more and more into YouTube and cat videos. When *Stuart Millard feels just too cynical, we can rely on these fluffy little anarchists. I know some of these clips are contrived AF, but they’re so cute. If I was in my twentiesContinue reading “Cat Videos for Cat People”

Cat Lovers

In a predominantly dog lovers’ town, I’m a cat person. I glance sideways, but there are few moggy types there, and I’m sitting alone with a group of people who are immune to magical feline charms. I seem to forever be the sore thumb here. Bowie and The Cure sang about them; Angela Carter wroteContinue reading “Cat Lovers”

TV Review: Shifty

Film maker Adam Curtis has many detractors: his naysayers suggest he’s cynical, paranoid, unwatchable, a conspiracy theorist. I think this is all a tad unfair. He simply curates archive footage, patchwork style, adds ideas and weaves it all deftly together, both a satirist and retro-futurist. He lets the viewer go along with his non -linearContinue reading “TV Review: Shifty”