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Godard’s knock
GODARD’S KNOCK Been away filming a new BBC show in Turkey for 2 weeks. I like these long shoots abroad. I feel like I’m floating through...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
the normal way things are done Like the concentric growing up of days Around a life
Ah, I’m back on the interweb after a month-long quarantine while I moved. It was weirdly liberating being severed from the juicy nexus. I...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
WHAT HOUSE: Profusion and Concision
Once again I’ve packed my travel bag with suitably televisual clothes and hit the road for filming. This year I’m shooting a fifth series...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read


"Everybody ticks. Only the anti-clockwise hear it."
Went with Rachel to a wonderfully underground (in all senses of the word) art exhibit in the bowels of Shoreditch Town Hall. The winner –...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read




You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.
This is another re-furbished blog piece from the archives. But no one tires of hearing about amazing teenagers and the vast sweep of the...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read


A sudden cartography of song
[This is the text to a piece I created together with the Cambridge composer Jeremy Thurlow. It was based around ideas of non-wordy beauty...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20195 min read


The Five Obstructions
I love LvT’s films. They’re so perverse, so irritating in the way that provokes pearls. And this one, like many, runs like a little...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read


Urizen & le train-train
I spend most of yesterday having cups of tea and meals with different people, talking about the desire to break free of the humdrum...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20195 min read




Meditating on top of Mountains
Meditating on top of Mountains Just back from 10 days up on Holy Island, including 6 spent debuting as a meditation teacher. I’ve been to...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read


Berlin the Beautiful
Berlin the Beautiful Just in Berlin to do some research for this documentary project about that city since 1989. Although I’d been there...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20196 min read


Mindfulness: "knowing what is happening, while it is happening, without preference"
In lieu of any blogging these last few weeks, I offer a few photo offerings. I was up on Holy Island teaching and studying with the...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read





Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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