One+One Filmmakers Journal Blog (2012-2015)

One+One Filmmakers Journal is named after the 1968 film One Plus One by Jean Luc Godard. The film is in part a document of the Rolling Stones in a studio, recording the song Sympathy for the Devil and part staged scenes of political revolutions over which we hear extracts from various revolutionary texts. A reoccurring image is of slogans being painted on to walls and cars but each time the shot cuts before the slogan is completed. This is a film made in a time of upheaval and revolution, it captures the sense of a revolution in progress, a revolution that has not yet concluded.
When the studio released the film they made two changes which significantly altered the meaning of the film – the first was that they changed the title to Sympathy for the Devil and the second was to include the full version of the song at the end of the film, both done in order to make the film more commercial and both were made against Godard’s wishes. To have the completed song at the end of the film contradicts the theme of revolutions in progress that is the movie’s focus. Godard was so angry about this that he punched the film's producer at the UK premiere.
We are on the side of Godard, we are on the side of all filmmakers that have a vision that can not and should not be compromised for commercial or any other reasons. One+One seeks to be the fist in the face of those that force a compromise of the artist’s voice.
One+One Filmmakers Journal ran from 2009-2015. Below is the blog archive, which ran from 2012-2015.

Masthead Past and Eternal
• Original founding team (2009) – Daniel Fawcett, Matthew Hamblion, Dan Childs, James Marcus Tucker, Bradley Tuck, Fiona Hurd, Tim Pieraccini
• Bradley Tuck – Submissions Editor (2009-2015)
• Greg Scorzo – Publicity and Submission (2013-2015)
• Lizzie Soden – Funding (2013-2015)
• James Marcus Tucker – Publishing editor (2009-2014)
• Nick Hudson – Events editor (2013-2014)
• Daniel Fawcett – Publicity editor (2009 – 2011), Editor (2009-2013)
• Clara Pais – Submissions editor (2012-2013)
• Diarmuid Hester – Publicity editor (2011-2013)
July 13, 2017

Out of the One+One Archive: Horror Film Hong Kong Style: Dr. Lamb

    By Garrett Chaffin-Quiray   Originally published in One+One: Filmmakers Journal, Issue 11, July 2013 Serial killers murder for personal gratification followed by intervals of […]
June 8, 2017

Out of the One+One Archive: Excess and Austerity: The Films of Kōji Wakamatsu

    By Benjamin Noys Originally published in One+One Filmmakers Journal, Issue 11 July 2013. Kōji Wakamatsu died on 17 October 2012 from injuries sustained after […]
May 3, 2017

Out of the One+One Archive: Graham Harman on H.P. Lovecraft: An Interview

     By Dominic Fox This interview was originally published in 2014 as part of One+One Filmmakers Journal, Issue 13, vol 2. Occult, Magick, Evil and […]
April 5, 2017

Out of the One+One Archive: Just a Spoonful of Sugar… Dialectics of Work and Play in Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins

  By Bradley Tuck   Note: This article was originally published in 2011 as part of One+One Filmmakers Journal’s special issue on Revolution in Progress (Issue […]
March 27, 2017

Out of the One+One Archive: Cult Films for Cult Religions: An Interview with Craig Baldwin

    By James Riley   Note: This Interview was originally conducted and published in 2014 as part of One+One Filmmakers Journal’s special issue on Occult, […]
February 18, 2017

Out of the One+One Archive: A Nine-Foot Phallus on the Loose: Rawhead Rex (1986)

     By Benjamin Noys   Note: This article was originally  published in 2014 as part of One+One Filmmakers Journal’s special issue on Occult, Magick, Evil […]
February 14, 2017

Out of the One+One Archive: From Cult to Cabaret: A Conversation with Mink Stole

    By Melanie Mulholland and Bradley Tuck   Note: This Interview was originally conducted and published in 2013 as part of One+One Filmmakers Journal’s special […]
July 13, 2014

A Hymn To Revolt And A Hymn To Martyrdom: Two Films On Pussy Riot

 By Giuliano Vivaldi This version updated on: May 1, 2015 An exploration of two films on Pussy Riot Pussy Riot were a loose feminist art actionist […]
May 30, 2014

Trash in the UK: A review of I. Q. Hunter’s British Trash Cinema

By Bradley Tuck I.Q. Hunter, British Trash Cinema (British Film Institute: London. 2013)   Trash films project, if you like, an alternative psychogeography of Britain that […]
March 20, 2014

Filmmaker Matthew Mishory on Derek Jarman

By James Marcus Tucker LA based Filmmaker Matthew Mishory has written for One+One in the past (see issue 5 here) and his film Delphinium: A Childhood […]
February 7, 2014

Derek Jarman’s Sketchbooks

  By James Marcus Tucker A video from the BFI and Thames & Hudson takes a look behind-the-scenes of Derek Jarman’s beautiful sketchbooks. You can purchase Thames […]
January 23, 2014

Neil Bartlett on Derek Jarman

LET’S DO IT ALL NIGHT Neil Bartlett reflects on paying homage to Derek Jarman For a queer boy from a small town, coming of age in […]
January 21, 2014

One+One Newsletter #2: January 21st, 2014

By Greg Scorzo Coming Soon: The One+One Horror and Occult Issue: James Riley interviews Craig Balwin about his film Mock up on Mu, a film that […]
January 9, 2014

Jarman 2014 Events

By James Marcus Tucker This February, Derek Jarman’s life will be celebrated with events across the UK. You can find out what events are taking place […]
November 15, 2013

It’s Not The Homosexual… Panel Speaker Profile – Kay Fiáin

  Kay is a filmmaker and great friend of One+One – we love his perversity and his willingness to share it with us. He will be […]
November 14, 2013

It’s Not The Homosexual… Panel Speaker Profile – Bradley Tuck

  Bradley Tuck is contributing co-editor of One+One and will be joining us to discuss It’s Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse But The Society In […]
November 13, 2013

It’s Not the Homosexual… Panel Speaker Profile – Lizzie Soden

  Today’s Q&A is with filmmaker Lizzie Soden who will be joining us on Saturday for discussion at our screening of Rosa Von Praunheim’s It’s Not […]
November 12, 2013

It’s Not The Homosexual… Panel Speaker Profile – Greg Scorzo

  This Saturday, One+One is screening the cult classic It’s Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse But The Society In Which He Lives at the London Underground […]
November 9, 2013

It’s Not The Homosexual…at London Underground Film Festival

  12pm Saturday 16th November, 2013 The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London Please arrive promptly for 12pm start! FOR ADVANCE, DISCOUNTED TICKETS £3.50 + BOOKING […]
September 9, 2013

One+One Newsletter No.1

  By James Marcus Tucker One+One Filmmakers Newsletter No.1 September 2013 Below is some information on our current issue that you can find on our website […]