Travis Elborough

I’ll be chatting about specs at 8pm Saturday 3rd June at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival in the Mildmay as part of the Nerd Night event.

Link here for tickets:

http://www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/snlf_events/nerd-nite-2/

Dalí in New York is a unique portrait of the great Spanish surrealist painter and all round egotistical exhibitionist Salvador Dalí by the legendary English underground filmmaker Jack Bond and his then partner the pioneering feminist Jane Arden. Bond was to trail Dalí for two weeks in December 1965 in the run-up to the opening of exhibition of the artist’s work at the Huntington Gallery of Modern Art. The resulting film provides an unrivalled snapshot of the surrealist at antic work and zany play, performing ‘manifestations’ with plaster casts of Michelangelo statues, thousands of ants and a coffin filled with $1 million dollars in used notes and reminiscing about Sigmund Freud. As absurdist and entertaining as its subject, Dalí in New York is a classic of the documentary form and this rare screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director Jack Bond hosted by the author Travis Elborough.

‘Dalí off the cut is outrageous and this exceedingly stylish film moves like an express train’ – Nancy Banks Smith, The Guardian

Tickets just £8.00 book here:

https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/daliinnewyork

This wonderful documentary, which I worked on as the script editor, is screening in selected Everyman Cinemas in May.

https://www.everymancinema.com/film-listing/314958-have-you-got-it-yet-the-story-of-syd-barrett-and-pink-floyd

Through the Looking Glasses traces the fascinating true story of spectacles: from their inception as primitive visual aids to monkish scribes right through to today’s designer eyewear and the augmented reality of Google Glass. There are encounters with ingenious medieval Italian glassmakers, myopic Renaissance rulers and spectacle-makers, as well as the silent movie star Harold Lloyd, the rock n roller Buddy Holly and the full-screen figure of Marilyn Monroe. This is a book about vision and the need for humanity to see clearly, and where the impulse to improve our eyesight has led us.

Travis Elborough joins us upstairs on 26 April to discuss his brilliant book and sign copies of the new paperback edition out on Abacus Books.

‘A brilliantly enjoyable survey… Elborough brings his own experience as a lifelong myope beautifully to bear on his subject’ Guardian

TICKETS

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kings-road-max-decharne-with-travis-elborough-tickets-606421050687