Jack Sargeant (writer) explained

Jack Sargeant
Birth Place:United Kingdom
Occupation:Writer
Language:English
Genres:Film, underground, subculture, art, true crime
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Jack Sargeant (born 1968) is a British writer specialising in cult film, underground film, and independent film, as well as subcultures, true crime, and other aspects of the unusual. In addition he is a film programmer, curator, academic and photographer. He has appeared in underground films and performances. He currently lives in Australia.[1] [2]

Career

Since 1995 Sargeant has written and contributed to numerous books on underground film, including: Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression, about Cinema of Transgression filmmakers such as Richard Kern and Nick Zedd, Naked Lens: Beat Cinema, and Cinema Contra Cinema, a collection of essays on alternative film. In 2007 Deathtripping was republished by Soft Skull Press,[3] this was followed by a re-printing of Naked Lens: Beat Cinema in 2008.[4]

Sargeant is the editor of the journal Suture, and has co-edited the books Lost Highways: An Illustrated History of the Road Movie (with Stephanie Watson) and No Focus: Punk on Film (with Chris Barber). In 2014 his collection of essays on the world of William Burroughs and associated artists such as Brion Gysin was published as Against Control by Swedish publisher Eight Millimetre.[5] [6]

In 2016 Amok Books published Flesh and Excess: On Underground Film.[7] [8]

Sargeant has contributed to numerous books on subjects ranging from Andy Warhol movies to road rage and car crash songs. His work has been included in collections such as Mikita Brottman's Car Crash Culture, Mendick & Harper's Underground USA, Wollen & Kerr's Autopia, among others.

He has also authored and edited true crime books including Born Bad, Death Cults,, Bad Cop Bad Cop, and Guns, Death Terror. These books have featured contributions from Monte Cazazza, Michael Spann, Andrew Leavold, John Harrison, Simon Whitechapel, Chris Barber, and others.

Sargeant has written introductions for Joe Coleman's Book of Joe and photographer Romain Slocombe's Tokyo Sex Underground.

He has contributed to publications such as Headpress as well as Panik, Electric Sheep, The Wire, Fortean Times and Bizarre magazine, as well as academic journals such as Senses of Cinema and M/C. Since 2008 he has written film reviews and a regular column for the Australian film magazine FilmInk focusing on unusual areas of film culture. He has also appeared as an occasional guest on ABC Radio National's MovieTime.

Between 2001 and 2003 he was film editor at large for Sleazenation. He has written cover notes for DVDs by various underground and independent filmmakers, including the British Film Institute's DVD release of Kirby Dick's film and their Jeff Keen DVD box set. In addition he has contributed liner notes to the Throbbing Gristle TGV DVD box set.

As a public speaker Jack Sargeant has given numerous talks on a variety of subjects including the work of JG Ballard, William Burroughs, and many other subjects often related to subjects he has written about.[9] [10] [11]

Sargeant has appeared in numerous film and TV documentaries on culture and film, as well as having cameos in underground films. He has also appeared on a recording by the experimental group I/O.

He has promoted and organised shows for filmmakers and artists at the Horse Hospital in London and Cinematheque in Brighton, UK, and has also toured film festivals in America, Europe, and Australia, including the New York Underground Film Festival,[12] the Chicago Underground Film Festival,[13] Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Brisbane International Film Festival, and Sydney Underground Film Festival. In 2002 and 2003 he collaborated with Simon Kane on The Salon, an annual event that has featured performances by David Tibet, Cosey Fanni Tutti, and Cotton Ferox.[14]

Since 2008 he has been Program Director for the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, and in 2010 he curated the film program for Sydney Biennale.[15]

Sargeant has been a frequent collaborator of art and theory group monochrom and founder Johannes Grenzfurthner. He got invited to Vienna as Q21/MQ artist in residence by monochrom in winter 2018.[16]

Bibliography

Books

Essays, chapters and other contributions

Film and TV appearances

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marvell . Leon . The idiosyncracies of a film festival curator . Realtime . Real Time.
  2. Web site: Cox . Will . Sex with Strange Neighbour . Broadsheet . Broadsheet Melbourne.
  3. Web site: Vivaldi . Giuliano . Deathtripping Review . Film Philosophy . 4 December 2018.
  4. Web site: Interview: Jack Sargeant on "Naked Lens". 5 January 2009.
  5. http://www.realtimeart.net/article/issue121/11586{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  6. Web site: Strong . Simon . Against Control Review . Other Cinema . 4 December 2018.
  7. Web site: Vivaldi . Guiliano . Towards A History of Visceral Cinema: Flesh And Excess: On Underground Film . Senses of Cinema . 4 December 2018. 20 September 2017 .
  8. Web site: Ellinger . Kat . Flesh and Excess: Author Jack Sargeant on Trangression and Visceral Bodies in Film . Diabolique . 4 December 2018. 29 October 2016 .
  9. Web site: JAN 7: J.G. BALLARD CLASS WITH VISITING LECTURER JACK SARGEANT . Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies . 10 December 2015 . miskatonic institute.
  10. Web site: William S. Burroughs in the World Beyond Literature by Jack Sargeant . Center In Paris.
  11. Web site: William S Burroughs: Cut-Ups, Culture and Counterculture . ACMI .
  12. Web site: FESTIVAL ROUNDUP New York Underground Film Festival . Filmmaker Magazine.
  13. Web site: Introducing the 2013 Jury! . Chicago Underground Film Festival. 7 February 2013 .
  14. Web site: Current 93, Cotton Ferox, Amal Gamal Ensemble, Dieter Müh October Gallery, London . Compulsion Online.
  15. Web site: Superdeluxe@Artspace . Artspace.
  16. Web site: Quartier21 Artist in Residence programme . Quartier21 Artist in Residence programme . Museumsquartier Vienna . 3 December 2018.

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