Adam Adamant

In yesterday's Guardian Charlie Brooker interviewed documentary film-maker Adam Curtis about his involvement with theatre company Punchdrunk (Damon Albarn and the Kronos Quartet too). He's now made a film, It Felt Like a Kiss, to be screened, alongside some live-action elements, in a deserted Manchester office block as part of the Manchester Festival. It sounds a curious, intriguing piece of environmental theatre and from the trailer it would appear to be about American pop, American power and American imperialism.



Even more interestingly, the interview reveals that in the future Curtis's work will be produced for the internet.
I'm not sure how I feel about this revelation. The worry is that this is another example of the banalisation of British telly. Curtis's films The Trap and The Power of Nightmares are compelling and hypnotic, idea-heavy and visually dense, layering found image on found image on found image. They deserve a place in the mainstream media. To be fair it is the BBC which will host Curtis's site and who's to say that it is not Curtis who has decided on the net as his vehicle (criminally it's nigh on impossible to find his work on DVD? Still, I wouldn't mind an Adam Curtis season on BBC4. (TJ)