Swans: Future Destination Unknown
Michael Gira and his sonic cohorts gave birth to Swans in the famously bleak, dystopian cityscape of early 80's downtown New York. Minimalist, ritualistic and downright brutal, the band delivered a relentle...
Intimate Mini Documentaries by Director Nick Cavalier
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...
Art Pop Gets Redefined with Anomie Belle’s ‘Flux’
"You know you'll never have to look back now," sings Anomie Belle on the hopeful opening of her latest release 'Flux'. Across multiple EPs and now three full-lengths, the versatile multi-instrumentalist hasn't been afraid to get eclectic or outré as she ex...
Life of Significant Soil: Interview with Film Director Michael Irish
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
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...
Interview with Anomie Belle & Redd Walitzki
Seattle-based artists Anomie Belle and Redd Walitzki have come together to create an absolutely decadent collaboration in alignment with Anomie’s newest album, Flux. Readers are invited to experience 'Lovers', the first single from Flux. It is both an audi...
A Look Back on Drive (2011): Movie Review and Commentary
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...
Sunn O))) Exposure: Experience the Rays
Rarely can music, or moreover, sound, truly enrich life and advance consciousness so instantaneously. Sunn O))) has not only changed my personal perception of music in all of its possibilities, but also has...
Interview with Author Miriam Elia
Sex. Death. Contemporary art.
I first learned about this London satirical artist, author, filmmaker, and comedian in the New York Times a few months back. I was immediately taken with her apparent silliness and eccentric style. It was also impressive to...
Surrealism’s Not Dead: Interview with Jan Svankmajer
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...
Opia: Suku Dance Lab Interview
In the background, the music lilts in the air. A voice is saying, "She is the most beautiful thing I have ever met." The lights are low, and send warm glints along the walls. Nuria, Ali, and Amanda, three d...
Franklin Furnace Burns Strong: Publishing House Interview
Harley Spiller, Deputy Director at the famed Franklin Furnace, was kind enough to sit down and have a chat with me just a few days after the organization celebrated its 40th anniversary. We chatted about everything from Nom Wah’s amazing Dim Sum to North K...
Blood Tea and Red String Stop-motion: Christiane Cegavske Interview
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
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
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, consisting of ten members, makes quirky mash ups of...
Kyle Lewis’ Unapologetic Approach to Music Videos
Kyle Lewis is a twenty-something film director with an eye for the visually weird. He's worked with some of the biggest names on South Africa's pop charts - Khuli Chana, Toya Delazy, The Parlotones, Haezer,...
Casting Spelling Spells: Interview with Shelley Marlow
Voracious readers will no doubt claim several reasons for their personal literary obsessions. I believe mine is one of escapism mingled with a wanderlust that is only satiated by actual travel, or the inges...
Interview with Adam Gnade
New York has a particular grind that is, at times, exhausting and terrible. I've seen people in the subway, swaying with the push and pull of the train, with permanent frown lines embedded into their face as if they were born with the weight of dissatisfac...
Forced Perspective: Interview with Derek Hess & Nick Cavalier
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 ...
Roxanna Walitzki’s “Exquisite Corpse”
Roxanna Walitzki is a performance artist trained at NYU and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Often defined as an "operatic iconoclast," Roxanna combines the potential narrative aspects of beauty wit...