Chris Barber - FREELANCE WRITER
(London & Barcelona Based)

 

Click for more detail on NO FOCUS: Punk on FilmNO FOCUS: PUNK ON FILM
© Headpress October 2006
Main Author
Archiving and reviewing every punk performance captured on celluloid, No Focus: Punk on Film is a complete overview of punk film that also covers the birth of music video, post-industrial and euro-trash punk documentaries, classic and obscure movies inspired by punk rock and street/youth subculture (from Jubilee and Repo Man to The Filth And The Fury and Twenty-Four Hour Party People), and proto-punk in the shape of Bunuel and Surrealist films.

Click for more detail on EYEBALL CompendiumEYEBALL COMPENDIUM
© Fab Press 2003
Contributing Author
A collection of one of the smartest and most stylish mags on alternative, cult and art cinema, that kick-started the now wide-spread admiration for Euro-horror.

Click for more detail on Art of DarknessART OF DARKNESS
© Fab Press 2002
Contributing Author
The aesthetics of European art house collide with fairytale logic and grisly ultra-violence in the films of Italy's most unconventional export, Dario Argento.

Click for more detail on Bad Cop, Bad Cop BAD COP, BAD COP
© Virgin Books 2003
Contributing Author
Focusing on all aspects of bad cops - from corruption through to torture and psycho-cops running-amok.

Click for more detail on Guns, Death, TerrorGUNS, DEATH, TERROR
© Creation Books 2003
Contributing Author
Focusing on the international terrorism in the 1960s & 1970s, with high-profile plane hijackings, car bombings & political assassinations.

Click for more detail on Death CultsDEATH CULTS
© Virgin Books 2002
Contributing Author
Focusing on cults that worldwide hold a fascination for those desperate enough to look for "ultimate truths".

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