Culture Diary w/c 13-01-2025

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Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond…

Monday – Run Lola Run 8pm @ FACT Liverpool – £8

A magenta-haired heroine (Franka Potente, top) breathlessly beats the streets of Berlin to come up with 100,000 Deutsche Marks to save the bacon of her small time crook boyfriend. This is the set-up for director Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run which, more than 25 years later, remains one of the most successful foreign language films of all time. Seeing it at the cinema on release, its pounding soundtrack, thrilling concept and, yes, its lead, all left an impression on yours truly. Whether reliving the exhilaration or taking it in for the first time, Run Lola Run is recommended viewing.

Read our 2022 interview with Franka Potente: “It’s like seeing an old friend – it has been such a big part of my life.”

Tuesday – Art Plays Games @ FACT Liverpool  FREE

Contemporary artists have, for some time, mined the medium of gaming to reach audiences in new, innovative and engaging ways. From Larry Achiampong and David Blandy to LuYang, and Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley, FACT has a long history at the forefront of such programming; so it was merely a matter of time before Art Plays Games came along, which reopens at the gallery today with a fresh slate of artists and developers to explore – including the aforementioned Braithwaite-Shirley.

Read how gaming has earned its place at the table

À bout de souffle (1960), artist’s proof for British quad sheet Peter Strausfeld  (1)

Wednesday – Breathless (a bout de Souffle) 5.50pm @ FACT Liverpool  £8

Has a film ever earned its name so thoroughly? Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as small-time thief with a big problem, and Jean Seberg, the girlfriend to whom he turns in his hour of desperate need, Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature, finds the French New Wave director at the very height of his powers.

Read: French New Wave: A Revolution in Design

Thursday – Artefact Design & Worldbuilding Workshop with Rebecca Romero 6.30pm @ FACT Liverpool  FREE

If you mix with a certain bunch of people long enough, let’s say writers, artists, curators, fans of science fiction & fantasy, chances are you’ll have come across (possibly more than once) a discussion and/or application of Ursula le Guin’s Carrier Bag of Fiction. In it, the author posits technology as a cultural repository as opposed to weapon of domination; it’s an elegant, reassuring and ultimately hopeful theory, employed by Cosmotechnics exhibition artist Rebecca Romero in this worldbuilding workshop.

Friday – An Evening with Edgar Jones 7.30pm @ Prohibition Records, Liverpool – £16.50/£20

A mainstay of the Liverpool music scene for more than 30 years, join singer-songwriter Edgar Jones for an evening exploring his back-catalogue as he chats about his time in the industry, muses on inspirations and more. Support comes from fellow musician James O’Donnell.

The Evil Dead 8.30pm @ FACT Liverpool  £8

The Evil Dead has traveled the road from infamy (as part of the ’80s Video Nasty furore) to cult classic, seeing its director Sam Raimi and lead Bruce Campbell made stars along the way. More the 40 years since its release, it is with a mixture of eagerness and trepidation that we return to that cabin in the woods…

Bruce Campbell The Evil Dead 2

Saturday – Evil Dead II 8.30pm @ FACT Liverpool  £8

This sequel to The Evil Dead, shot six year’s after Raimi’s debut, sees Bruce Campbell’s Ash once again gorily do battle with godless demons.

Sunday – Last Chance to See: Proximity @ Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool  FREE

“I have always felt that my best work shows a deep personal connection to the subject photographed, whether of people or place.” The aptly titled exhibition Proximity sees Stephen McCoy reflecting on 45 years of engagement with Merseyside; through the people and places of the region he mentions, but also his own development as a practitioner – and his personal ties to the towns and city he’s called home. One of Open Eye Gallery’s finest shows of recent times, catch it while you can.

Mike Pinnington

Images/media, from top: Run Lola Run; À bout de souffle (1960), artist’s proof for British quad sheet Peter Strausfeld;Edgar Jones: Reflections of a Soul Dimension; Evil Dead

Posted on 13/01/2025 by thedoublenegative