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20,000 Days on Earth
30th April 2020
by Iain and Jane

WATCH 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH FREE

20,000 Days on Earth, our film about Nick Cave, will be available to watch for free on

24th May 2016
by Iain and Jane

Vice: Jim Jarmusch

24 May 2014 Jarmusch compared his own film negatively to 20,000 Days on Earth, Jane Pollard and Iain

Grierson Awards 2015
2nd November 2015
by Iain and Jane

GRIERSON AWARD WINNER

20,000 Days on Earth has won the Best Arts Documentary category at the Grierson Trust 2015 British

20,000 Days on Earth on TV
1st April 2015
by Iain and Jane

20,000 Days on Earth on TV

Our film 20,000 Days on Earth has its television debut in the UK on 1st May. It

BAFTA Nomination
13th January 2015
by Iain and Jane

BAFTA NOMINATION

It’s a huge honour that our film, 20,000 Days on Earth has been nominated for the 2015

8th December 2014
by Iain and Jane

Red Carpet News: Directors Interview

8 December 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KVo2wTuVP0

BIFA Awards
7th November 2014
by Iain and Jane

BIFA WIN

We’re thrilled to have been presented the Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) at the 17th Annual

Spirit Awards
1st November 2014
by Iain and Jane

SPIRIT AWARDS NOMINATION

We’re thrilled that our film 20,000 Days on Earth has been nominated for the best documentary prize

1st November 2014
by Iain and Jane

Art Monthly: 20,000 Days on Earth

November 2014

8th October 2014
by Iain and Jane

Filmmaker Magazine: 20,000 Days on Earth

8 October 2014

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Brion Gysin’s Stanley knife at the @museedartmoder Brion Gysin’s Stanley knife at the @museedartmodernedeparis 

🔪 If knives could talk… 

The “origin story”

It’s said that, in the 1950s, the artist Brion Gysin was using layers of newspapers as a mat to protect a tabletop from being scratched while he cut other papers with a razor blade.

Gysin: “… I had a number of sheets of newspaper, and I took a Stanley blade and cut through them, and little bits and pieces looked so amusing to me that I started jiggling them around as one would in a collage.” Gysin had accidentally rediscovered the cut-up method, a technique that can be traced back to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s.

Gysin then introduced his friend, the author William Burroughs to the technique at the Beat Hotel.

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We love @bethorton Amazing to have her in @broken We love @bethorton

Amazing to have her in @brokenenglish.film - and her version of Sister Morphine at our @barbicancentre UK Broken English launch was such a highlight of an incredible night.

It was a thrill to film a session together for her new album with our brilliant collaborator @joelynntw - the new album is out of this world, seriously cosmic 

WATCH Waiting on YT now 

Thanks to our saviour @zoflower 
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Congratulations @willmacwriting on your mind-bendi Congratulations @willmacwriting on your mind-bending, dream-haunting kaleidoscope of a book. A must read!! 

And thanks to @fitzroviachapel and @freyabently for hosting a great launch. 

#solacehouse #willmacclean #atlanticbooks
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iainandjane

Brion Gysin’s Stanley knife at the @museedartmoder Brion Gysin’s Stanley knife at the @museedartmodernedeparis 

🔪 If knives could talk… 

The “origin story”

It’s said that, in the 1950s, the artist Brion Gysin was using layers of newspapers as a mat to protect a tabletop from being scratched while he cut other papers with a razor blade.

Gysin: “… I had a number of sheets of newspaper, and I took a Stanley blade and cut through them, and little bits and pieces looked so amusing to me that I started jiggling them around as one would in a collage.” Gysin had accidentally rediscovered the cut-up method, a technique that can be traced back to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s.

Gysin then introduced his friend, the author William Burroughs to the technique at the Beat Hotel.

From briongysin.com
The Extraordinary Miss Flower is now available to The Extraordinary Miss Flower is now available to watch online - link in profile

UK & Ireland – BFI player / Prime / Apple
Australia & New Zealand – DVD or streaming
Sweden - SF Anytime
Finland / SF Anytime 
Norway / SF Anytime
Denmark / Blockbuster
We love @bethorton Amazing to have her in @broken We love @bethorton

Amazing to have her in @brokenenglish.film - and her version of Sister Morphine at our @barbicancentre UK Broken English launch was such a highlight of an incredible night.

It was a thrill to film a session together for her new album with our brilliant collaborator @joelynntw - the new album is out of this world, seriously cosmic 

WATCH Waiting on YT now 

Thanks to our saviour @zoflower 
@xo.rental @olly_stothert @__alexbarber @nicholaspeeldigital @dirtylooks_grades @clairewintercolour @partisanrecords
Congratulations @willmacwriting on your mind-bendi Congratulations @willmacwriting on your mind-bending, dream-haunting kaleidoscope of a book. A must read!! 

And thanks to @fitzroviachapel and @freyabently for hosting a great launch. 

#solacehouse #willmacclean #atlanticbooks
Ce soir, à Pau, pour la première fois! @lemelies.p Ce soir, à Pau, pour la première fois! @lemelies.pau @rockthistownpau @brokenenglish.film @mariannefaithfullofficial 

#brokenenglish 
In broken French 😂
Just saw #christopherbrettbailey @sohotheatre perf Just saw #christopherbrettbailey @sohotheatre performing I Saw Satan at the 7eleven. Don’t miss it. Utterly brilliant.
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