happy

is it possible to go on making art when one is totally happy? a tribute to the metta bhavana...




Cold Feet

xmas tune for 2012

Chilly, Brittle and Bright - with their Orchestra of Delight,



Silence remixed

A silent film for radio - for Kurt Gottschalk's 'silence remixed' project on new york's wfmu radio station

(link will take you to vimeo site)

season 9

- cardboard boxes, horses and bloody knives, an urgent message to our planet, autumn leaves and a 21 carol soup.



season 8

  1. -topical sketches  - burns night - support for egypt, and other worthy matters.



Smoo

  1. -gathered in the far north of scotland an ancient and inbred cult celebrates a mysterious ritual...



bisset duo, trio ... septet

- music videos

green screen overdub possibilities explored most tunefully




Xmas special  2011

  1. -with guests: The Pogues, Kasia Kuchnicka - Trombone, Barrel String Trio and Adam Bohman - prepared objects


season 7 -  Art Unfrozen

  1. -selections from our 96 hour stint on ResoVision at the Freize Art Fair 2010- the creme de la creme of the filmic offerings, interspersed with insightful analysis from us truly.


season 6

  1. -Ivor returns and domestic bliss resumes - in bed, in the kitchen, in the cellar - John loses his face, Ivor his temper.    Boobs, shit, blood, milk...

season 5

- Ivor’s gone away and forgotten to cancel his guardian subscription. Improvised stories and songs.



season 4

- wide-screen, technicolour puppets and gods attempting to divine what the baby wants...


season 3

  1. -The Blue and the Grey. New suits for the Toplap Two - a tour or America performing electronics and opera before psychosis sets in.


season 2 - Episodes as broadcast:  Suits of blood and shit. Curtains also - Ivor and John are flung into a parallel universe, where elfs and demons point them in the right direction. Meanwhile Religion is being invented.


FILM - The Pink and the Brown. Stitching together the material from Season 2 into the narrative whole you always knew was there.  31’ 15”



season 1

-how it all began - featuring death defying magic, political satire, animation and the infamous Mobius strip of the final episode




213TV

favourites - sample the BEST OF 213TV


John Bisset / Ivor Kallin
‘..by means of glossolalia, mock violence, postures and gestures, the pair manage to hover around the cusp that separates seriousness from humour. Sometimes I’m not sure how to react, a feeling I experienced in French theatre after seeing a lot of plays by Ionesco, Beckett and Genet.' James Wyness  - Fouter & Swick