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Interview: Inside The Graceful Cinematic Universe Of Kin Fables

February 13, 2018

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Have you ever woken up one day, and wondered where all the sun, warmth and possible of your childhood have gone? While you’re sipping your morning coffee, full of melancholy and perhaps dejection, you are ponde...

Morgana A Documentary Film. housewife. pornographer. artist

Kylie Dexter

August 4, 2017

FEATURED, FILM, INTERVIEWS, LATEST POSTS

A lonely housewife’s plan to commit suicide takes an unexpected turn when her last hurrah begins a radical journey of sexual exploration and personal reinvention. Morgana was a divorced woman in her late 4...

Let Me Make You a Martyr: Reveries of Darkness and Murder

Kristy Senko-Hall

June 7, 2017

FILM, LATEST POSTS

Tired of livin’ in the darkness, man. It’s all I’ve ever known. It’s all that’s ever know me, besides her. You ever think about suicide? I mean really thought about it? Like there might be no other way out?...

The Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex

Lee Tudor

May 18, 2017

CULTURE, FILM, LATEST POSTS

“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?” (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) - words from John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book X, 743-745) Fr...

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Lee Tudor

January 22, 2017

FILM, INTERVIEWS, LATEST POSTS, MUSIC

Frank Zappa was many different things to many different people. To some he was an idol, to others, a threatening hippy inciting a revolution. Nevertheless, Frank’s work spoke volumes more than any one interview...

‘Show Pieces’ by Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins

Lee Tudor

December 29, 2016

CULTURE, FILM, LATEST POSTS

Show Pieces was successfully crowd-funded back in 2013 with the beautiful finished product coming to fruition in August 2015. Mitch Jenkins' boredom and a shoot called 'Dodging Molly' formed a desire to create ...

BFI London Film Festival: A Monster Calls, Spaceship and Without Name

Lee Tudor

December 11, 2016

CULTURE, FILM, LATEST POSTS

The BFI London Film Festival showcased some of the most exciting up-and-coming releases in central London, with an eclectic mix of film, documentary, and shorts, in a plethora of genre, form and style in e...

Nola and the Clones: Interview with Filmmaker Graham Jones

Anmarie Soucie

December 1, 2016

CULTURE, FILM, INTERVIEWS

Irish filmmaker Graham Jones’ latest work – Nola and the Clones – follows the story of a young homeless girl on the streets of Dublin, where she encounters a series of men eerily similar to one another. “It...

Projection: A Skate Film In Paris

Jennifer Susan Jones

November 21, 2016

CULTURE, FILM

A deft young skater mounts his deck and glides through the wet and dry streets of Paris, his moving image flickering between days and nights, as iconic French architecture decorates the background with beautifu...

Film: The Neon Demon

Lee Tudor

October 13, 2016

CULTURE, FILM

Director and writer Nicholas Winding Refn teams up with screenplay writers, Mary Laws and Polly Stenham, cinematographer, Natasha Braier and composer, Cliff Martinez (of Drive (2011) and Fifth Element (1997) ...

Intimate Mini Documentaries by Director Nick Cavalier

Jackie Lemmon

September 6, 2016

CULTURE, FILM

In only an average of twelve minutes, mini documentaries by Director Nick Cavalier leave you feeling connected to the subjects of the films. Short stories capture the subject's feelings about their passions...

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Life of Significant Soil: Interview with Film Director Michael Irish

Justine Morrow

August 17, 2016

CULTURE, FILM, INTERVIEWS

When the lights dim, and the first scenes of a film splay their light onto the eagerly awaiting faces, I imagine Michael Irish sitting in the back with baited breath. Imagine the exhaustion, excitement, and...

Poetry of the Lens: Contemporary Filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson

Anmarie Soucie

August 10, 2016

CULTURE, FILM

Tattooed across the heart with a Bert and Ernie duo, Melbournian filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson has been unapologetically making films since the tenderoni age of single digits, when he was just barely old e...

A Look Back on Drive (2011): Movie Review and Commentary

Lee Tudor

July 27, 2016

CULTURE, FILM

Out of a house in the L.A. hills, director Nicolas Winding Refn and screenwriter Hossein Amini, produced, cut, and auditioned for a movie about a stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. Driving for...

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Surrealism’s Not Dead: Interview with Jan Svankmajer

Justine Morrow

June 29, 2016

ART, FILM, INTERVIEWS

There are watermelons being thrown out of a window, and Alice is dipping her hands in jam spiked with push-pins. Two bodies, lost in the heat of passion, merge faces then birth a blob, and Satan pulls the s...

Blood Tea and Red String Stop-motion: Christiane Cegavske Interview

Justine Morrow

June 16, 2016

FILM, INTERVIEWS

Stop-motion animation has always fascinated me. Anything from Wallace & Gromit to the Quay Brothers; it's like a secret, sacred obsession I only indulge in when no one is around. In a world full of fanc...

The Mind Ocean: Interview with ZZYW Studio

Justine Morrow

June 11, 2016

FILM, INTERVIEWS

Standing before the screen in a dark room, I slip on the ultra-modern glasses and watch as the electronic ocean before me, a sea of dots and lines, reverberates softly. Slowly it undulates, ripples, and the...

Chto Delat (What Is To Be Done?) – A Border Musical

Jackie Lemmon

June 8, 2016

CULTURE, FILM, MUSIC

A collaborative group of artists and philosophers founded in 2003, in Russia, Chto Delat, which translates to "What is to be done", creates films, performance art, musicals, and newspapers. This group, c...

Forced Perspective: Interview with Derek Hess & Nick Cavalier

Jackie Lemmon

May 23, 2016

ART, FILM, INTERVIEWS

Superhero + Modern Master = Derek Hess Last year, Forced Perspective swept through film festivals, gaining a large amount of recognition. The piece won several awards. Directed by Nick Cavalier as his debut ...

Charlie Kaufman’s Strangely Beautiful Anomalisa

Kim Crowie

May 18, 2016

CULTURE, FILM

Never one to conform to the trends of the day, Charlie Kaufman has widened his already indescribably large range of capabilities to include animation. The screenwriter, producer, director, and lyricist is b...

Interview: Hell is Empty, All the Demons are with Jim Pavelec

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Art Prize: Winners & Honourable Mentions Announced

An interview with Allen Williams: ‘Covenant’ and ‘Personal Gods’ @ Copro Gallery

Kylie Dexter: Roving in the “Dolldrums”

Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips

Interview: Words with Dande and The Lion

Interview: Inside The Graceful Cinematic Universe Of Kin Fables

Interview: The Organic ‘Noir&B’ Music of Elle Watson

The Narrative Wearable Art of Breath & Stone

Thrjár: Nordic Influenced Jewelry By Daria Endresen

Stone Sparrow Design: Interview with Marina Eliasi

The Natural Magic of Secret Wood Enchanting Rings

Avant-Garde Garment Architecture: Interview with IIMUAHII

Fantasy Couture: An Interview with Atelier Selene de Viollet

House of Malakai: Eclectic Creations of Malakai Hom

The Artistic Menagerie @ Antler Gallery: An interview with Jon Ching, Chase Mullen & Lorien Stern

Mall “Whisperers” + Shannon Bonatakis “Keep Magic Alive” @ Haven Gallery

Michelle Jader: IT’S SHOWTIME @ Robert Lange Studios

An interview with Allen Williams: ‘Covenant’ and ‘Personal Gods’ @ Copro Gallery

The New Romantics Curated By Caro Buermann @ Corey Helford Gallery

SEED Curated by Yvonne Force at Paul Kasmin Gallery

Chronicles of a Future Foretold – a Poets & Artists Exhibition @ 33 Contemporary

Interview: Inside The Graceful Cinematic Universe Of Kin Fables

Morgana A Documentary Film. housewife. pornographer. artist

Let Me Make You a Martyr: Reveries of Darkness and Murder

The Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex

‘Show Pieces’ by Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins

BFI London Film Festival: A Monster Calls, Spaceship and Without Name

Nola and the Clones: Interview with Filmmaker Graham Jones

Projection: A Skate Film In Paris

Film: The Neon Demon

Intimate Mini Documentaries by Director Nick Cavalier

Life of Significant Soil: Interview with Film Director Michael Irish

Poetry of the Lens: Contemporary Filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson

A Look Back on Drive (2011): Movie Review and Commentary

Surrealism’s Not Dead: Interview with Jan Svankmajer

Blood Tea and Red String Stop-motion: Christiane Cegavske Interview

The Mind Ocean: Interview with ZZYW Studio

Forced Perspective: Interview with Derek Hess & Nick Cavalier

Charlie Kaufman’s Strangely Beautiful Anomalisa

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