People In A Film

Released in 1977, the debut album by post-punk trailblazers Wire was like nothing before it. Pink Flag was 21 tracks of bold dada statement, with several songs clocking in under a minute.  Forty years later in 2017, their most recent album Silver/Lead was lauded by The Guardian as "some of the strongest tunes they've ever done".
 
In between Wire have constantly changed, evolved and experimented.  They have embraced new technologies, developed new creative strategies and been cited as a major influence by artists as diverse as Big Black, My Bloody Valentine, Blur, Henry Rollins, Savages, Elastica, Parquet Courts, R.E.M. and Joy Division.
 
Wire’s penchant for groundbreaking sonic experiments and mixed media work has also led to them being a significant influence on the worlds of electronica and avant-garde music. Their influence has won them plaudits and support from the international art world, where Wire have collaborated with artists like Jake and Dinos Chapman and the Michael Clark Dance Company.
 
They've also perpetrated such acts of witty and perverse creativity as performing on stage inside a row of large cubes, releasing an album of eight interpretations of the same song and touring with a support act who played Wire's first album in full.    
 
Wire remain a powerful, influential and unique band.  Now, for the first time Wire are collaborating on a film about themselves.  People In A Film aims to express the very essence of the band – the personalities, their music, their worldview, their history and their future.


PEOPLE IN A FILM
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Production Team

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Malcolm Boyle
Director & Producer

Malcolm is a director, producer and performer.  His credits include Avalon - A Field in Glastonbury, Ali G Before He Was Massif, Ideal, and Nebulous. 
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Malcolm’s work has been seen on BBC TV, Channel 4, Five, Nickelodeon, Discovery and the Disney Channel. His next feature documentary is Hoppy - Underground Head, about legendary counter-cultural icon John 'Hoppy' Hopkins. Extracts were screened at the Victoria & Albert Museum as the climax of the launch event for You Say You Want A Revolution? – their recent major exhibition on underground culture. The documentary was also the subject of a paper presented by Malcolm at the annual Pop Conference at the Museum of Pop in Seattle.

His live work has featured at venues as diverse as Glastonbury Festival, the Royal Court Theatre and Manchester Royal Exchange.  Malcolm’s live multi-media show The Madcap about the life of Syd Barrett toured the UK and was featured on BBC Radio 4.  Malcolm's company Limn Gaza produced the large scale performance art piece The Joy Of Return which won the Barclay’s New Stages Award.

Malcolm was also the creator, curator and Artistic Director of The Recurring Technicolor Dream – an ICA event celebrating 1967’s 14 Hour Technicolor Dream: Britain’s first psychedelic happening. 
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Graham Duff
Co-Director

Graham is a prolific screenwriter and producer.  He wrote all 53 episodes of BBC3’s multi-award winning Johnny Vegas sit-com Ideal.  His other series include BBC2’s Hebburn with Vic Reeves, Dr. Terrible’s House of Horrible starring Steve Coogan and the Sky Arts series The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells starring Ray Winstone.   

For BBC Radio 4, he wrote Mark Gatiss’ sci-fi sit-com Nebulous, Alexei Sayle's The Absence of Normal and his own series Stereonation.  As a script editor, Graham’s work includes the feature film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, and all 50 episodes of Radio 4’s Sony Gold award winning Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show, which he also produces.  

Graham is an acknowledged authority on post-punk and industrial music, having published essays on Coil, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Val Denham and The Passage, as well as writing the special edition books for Wire’s albums Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154 and Silver/Lead. He’s written articles for The Guardian and Wire magazine and every December the Dangerous Minds website posts his review of the best alternative music albums of the year.

​Graham's debut book Foreground Music – a memoir focused on certain live gigs - is being published in September 2019.
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