Tim Cumming

London

Associate Editor and freelance feature writer at shots

Associate Editor & Freelance Features Writer at Freelance

Poet, film maker, music writer, painter About the poetry: https://t.co/9OfT9PAhUA

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Articles

Eva Quartet, St Cyprians, London. Arts Desk review by Tim Cumming

2 weeks ago | theartsdesk.com | Tim Cumming

Eva Quartet are four outstanding Bulgarian voices of polyphonic purity and depth, drawn from the legendary choir Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, who guested on Kate Bush’s classic Eighties album The Sensual World.
Remember Now: album review by Tim Cumming

3 weeks ago | theartsdesk.com | Tim Cumming

When Van Morrison last released an album of original songs, during the Covid pandemic, it didn’t go down well. Indeed for many, 2022’s What’s It Gonna Take squats in Morrison’s catalogue like a toad in a fruit salad. “A self-absorbed descent into Covid lunacy” one critic opined.
Brent Anderson: Harnessing the next wave

4 weeks ago | magazine.shots.net | Tim Cumming

Beginnings “I go back to the middle school version of myself, when my adolescent confidence was tied up with my artistic abilities: I always knew I could draw my way to attention! I’d draw these mash-ups of Sesame Street with Nightmare on Elm Street, Lego characters who’d been shot in the chest – my teacher probably thought I was disturbed. I’d mash things up and people would pay attention.
Raising the bar with Kem Suraphongchai

4 weeks ago | magazine.shots.net | Tim Cumming

Tell us about the origins of ADFEST, and how it has grown and developed since the first edition, in 1998? It all started back in 1994, when my father, Vinit Suraphongchai, was invited to be on a jury at Cannes. He came back with the realisation that the general standard in Asia was not high and we were copying too much of the western culture. He strongly felt there was room for something similar, but adapted to and catered for the Asian region, which is so rich in cultural diversity.
Natsuki Urayama is staying true to the story

4 weeks ago | magazine.shots.net | Tim Cumming

One of two New Director of the Year winners at the shots Awards APAC 2024, 25-year-old Natsuki Urayama, signed to AOI Pro in Tokyo since 2023, won with her six-minute short, Cut. The film follows a scissor-obsessed young man and a quiet struggle to find place and meaning in his life.
Finding advertising’s funny bone with Jeff Low

4 weeks ago | magazine.shots.net | Tim Cumming

Jeff Low’s retinue of stop-motion spots for Telstra, Australia’s broadband and mobile provider, were wrangled into being with the help of some astute one liners and the dexterity of stop-motion master Tobias Fouracre, whose credits include Isle of Dogs and Fantastic Mr Fox.
PHC is raising the roof

4 weeks ago | magazine.shots.net | Tim Cumming

Melbourne-based director, John Stewart, is most sought after for his music videos and spots that draw from the urban sub-cultures of Australia and elsewhere that few others are able to convincingly bring before the camera.
Making the cut with Jack Hutchings

4 weeks ago | magazine.shots.net | Tim Cumming

Over the course of his career Jack Hutchings has won a stack of Cannes gold, silver, bronze and Titanium Lions, plus Clios and D&ADs, as well as a Palm D’Or for short film Cracker Bag in 2003, and work on feature films including 2021’s The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson, and Selma Hayak.
Songlines Encounters, King's Place review - West African and Anatolian magic

1 month ago | theartsdesk.com | Tim Cumming

Songlines Encounters is your round the world ticket to great world music and performances, a chance to travel widely in music and culture without the burden of check-ins, passport control, flight delays, or transfers.
Lucy Farrell, Catherine MacLellan, The Green Note review - sublime frequencies

1 month ago | theartsdesk.com | Tim Cumming

Lucy Farrell, one quarter of the brilliant, award-winning Anglo-Scots band Furrow Collective, and a solo artist whose stunning debut album, We Are Only Sound, was released in 2023, divides her time between the UK – she’s a native of Kent – and Prince Edward Island, a musically rich parcel of land off Canada’s eastern seaboard. The island is home to the other half of this sublime folk-acoustic double bill, Juno Award-winning songwriter Catherine MacLellan.