PAM BEASANT found art intimately interwoven with science at the Orkney Science festival earlier this month

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies GEORGE A ROMERO is a legendary name among horror fans. Forty years ago he made ‘Night of The Living Dead’, a film that matched full-blooded terror with thought-provoking social commentary. He virtually invented the zombie chiller and encouraged other horror directors to set their sights a little higher. After a […]

Various venues, Islay, 16-18 September 2005

Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow, 13 September 2005

ALISTAIR PEEBLES reports on the making of a short film by visual artist Colin Kirkpatrick on Orkney

JOHN BURNS reflects on HI~Arts Showcase and the Edinburgh Fringe

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies THE HEART is a lonely hunter in ‘Me And You And Everyone We Know’. The first feature film from multimedia artist Miranda July is a wistful, self-conscious tale of longing and heartache set in suburban Los Angeles. A typical American independent feature, it has echoes of the films of David […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies IT IS DIFFICULT to understand why there haven’t been more films inspired by the novels of Jane Austen. She has such a shrewd understanding of human nature that her work is a gift to any filmmaker. This vivid, spirited new version of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is the first cinema adaptation […]

STEVE ROBERTSON sets the scene for Hayseed Dixie’s Loopallu festival

Kilmorack Gallery, By Beauly, until 30 September 2005