Carnal Cinema

Hop on board Dr Cousin’s DeLorean to meet the film industry at the turn of the century, in a satirical, limited edition book…

25 years ago, Andrew Lowes wrote a series of satirical interviews with familiar but imagined cinema celebrities for the online indie film magazine Netribution. These were brought to life a few years later by French cartoonist Éric Dubois, with a brilliant set of illustrations, many of which have never been seen.

For the first time, these are brought together in two beautiful and hilarious books for anyone who loves movies. From the diaries of a 6-year-old Stanley Kubrick directing his school nativity and academic to Roger Bland at the BBFC – the pre-smart phone comedy columns transport us briefly back to the last days of a mostly-male, mostly-pale, ego-littered film industry about to be changed forever with the arrival of YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, and Apple.

Cover for Carnal Cinema book, similar to the Trainspotting poster. It includes five pencil caricatures behind a large orange block that gives the name of the book. The cartoons are labelled Julia Ribbings, Roberto Benini, Tristan DeShields, Dr Andrew Cousins and Mark Custard.

Andrew Lowes and Éric Dubois

Carnal Cinema, the forbidden interviews: Volume One

A limited edition, hard-back, sewn-bound, full-colour book, and a DRM-free digital download are available. With a forward by Professor Laurence Grove.

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About

Andrew Lowes

Andrew is an award-winning writer/ director who has made the Shetland Islands his home for more than forty years. His black comedy short, “Alternative Therapy” won a Royal Television Regional Student Award, the Tyne Tees Television Script Award and was nominated for a national Royal Television Society Student Award.He has also written short fiction that has appeared in various different publications and fully intends to start that novel any decade now.

Éric Dubois

Éric is Professor of Exhibition Design at École Boulle in Paris. He is the curator and designer of several exhibitions in France and in Belgium, dedicated to the comic strip series The Adventures of Blake and Mortimer by Edgar P. Jacobs. He is also Member of the Board of the E. P. Jacobs Foundation in Brussels. His graphic work was presented at the Alliances Françaises in Glasgow and Addis Ababa. He is the artist behind the book Un Air de Métro.

Netribution

was founded in 1999 to support independent filmmakers making their way online. Netribution Ltd has had three 8-ish year acts: Publishing (1999-2008); Research (2008-16); and Development (2017-25). During the Publishing act there was Netribution 1 – a weekly web magazine, email and web resource running for 99 issues from 1999-2002; and v2 – an open access rolling publication that published 1000s of articles amidst the growth of web 2.0 in 2006. Netribution’s previous books include Digital Asset Management (2001) for Informa, and Get Your Film Funded (2003/04) with Shooting People.

The Stirling Maxwell Centre

Based at Glasgow University, the centre fosters an unrivalled tradition of scholarship in the field of text/ image interaction, building primarily, but not uniquely, on the Stirling Maxwell Collection, which with additions now numbers over 2000 volumes, by far the world’s largest (the second being Princeton with c. 700 volumes). As it evolves, the research increasingly includes the strong presence of broader aspects of visual culture, including film studies, art criticism, dada and surrealism, and interaction with the performing arts.

The columns, revisited

Pencil sketch of Herlfynn Strumboldt - wild hair, glasses with two paper aeroplanes and a lit lighter. One of the aeroplanes is in his hair, smoke coming out of its wing.

Herlfynn Strumboldt | Book 1

More Of An Art/Cinema Fusion Interface

Herlfynn Strumboldt is probably Finland’s most famous export. His music videos have won him a stack of awards including the Golden Semi-Brieve, the MTV Award for Best Use of a Million Dollar Budget and a Silver Tonsil. Next year he starts shooting his first feature, a tense sci-fi thriller entitled Schismoid III. I caught up with him at his office in Los Angeles.

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