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No Maps For These Territories, an 88-minute documentary about writer William Gibson, featuring interviews with writers Jack Womack and Bruce Sterling; music by tomandandy and readings and music by Bono and The Edge, will be shown on US TV this week.

The Mark Neale film gets its US premiere on IFC on December 19 at 11.30pm
Eastern, 8.30pm Pacific with repeat screenings at 4.30am Eastern, 1.30am
Pacific. Director Neale ‘A veteran of visual conceptualization and mixed media art’ designed the multimedia presentation for the ZOO TV tour.

More information on Gibson, who based one of the characters (Lo Rez) in his book ‘Idoru’ ($:USA/UK) on Bono, and the film at www.nomaps.com. Salon wrote a feature on the documentary earlier this year, as did Wired.



Variety, on the documentary: “Dense with sharp observations about technology, the future and the craft of writing, “No Maps