| Synopsis: |
Turning 70 years old on 11th June 2013, Iain Sinclair - writer, filmmaker, poet, walker, perpetual seeker of the perimeter and reluctant magus of the media school of psycho-geography - found it hard to resist the offer of the opportunity to make his choice of 70 films that related to, and are oft interwoven across his entire writing career. This was a chance to have these films shown in a variety of venues and resonant locations across London - a city Sinclair has made his own, a city he has (re)defined. This book features both Sinclair's initial 17,000 word explanation of the films chosen and their relationship to his novels and his life along with the resultant forensic documentation of this epic curatorial journey - film as mirrors, film as portals, film mutated through radio waves - additions to the teaming city ghost voices, film as a journey to no fixed abode. Sinclair spoke at many of the events, a constant updating and realigning, placing his choices in the here and now and soon to come. Predicting, proposing, provoking.He was aided and abetted by old friends, fellow writer Alan Moore, film-making co-conspiriators Andrew Kotting (Swandown) and Chris Petit (London Orbital), along with film academics Colin MacCabe and Gareth Evans and other manifestations from his fictional/factional role call. All seventy of the events were documented and these words and images now form an impressionistic memento of Iain Sinclair's 70x70 year, a defining corollary to this writer's extraordinary life. |