CULTURE

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Surrealism’s Not Dead: Interview with Jan Svankmajer

June 29, 2016

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

Justine Morrow

June 25, 2016

CULTURE, INTERVIEWS, PERFORMANCE

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...

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Franklin Furnace Burns Strong: Publishing House Interview

Justine Morrow

June 21, 2016

CULTURE, INTERVIEWS

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

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, consisting of ten members, makes quirky mash ups of...

Kyle Lewis’ Unapologetic Approach to Music Videos

Kim Crowie

June 1, 2016

INTERVIEWS, MUSIC

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, Rik...

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Casting Spelling Spells: Interview with Shelley Marlow

Justine Morrow

May 27, 2016

CULTURE, INTERVIEWS

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

Justine Morrow

May 24, 2016

INTERVIEWS, MUSIC

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

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 ...

Roxanna Walitzki’s “Exquisite Corpse”

Deianira Tolema

May 21, 2016

ART, MUSIC

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...

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 best known for his weird and wonderful stories that...

Joanna Newsom’s 21st Century Harp Revamp

Danai Molocha

May 16, 2016

CULTURE, MUSIC

Since 2004, when Joanna Newsom released her first studio effort The Milk-Eyed Mender via Drag City, something entirely fresh and enigmatic appeared in the sonic horizon of 21st-century folk. A singer-songw...

Standing Up: Interview with Michael Sharp

Justine Morrow

May 13, 2016

FILM, INTERVIEWS, PHOTOGRAPHY

Michael Sharp is a video artist, creative art director, photographer, and just an overall incredible man. He was brought up in the UK, but has lived in Amsterdam, and Australia, and he is now based out of N...

Building Fiction into Reality: Interview with Weta Workshop

Natalia Joruk

May 11, 2016

CULTURE, INTERVIEWS

On my recent visit to New Zealand, I had the honour of visiting the renowned Weta Workshop, a leader in the field of design and manufacture of practical special effects. Perhaps most well-known for their contributions to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbi...

Veteran Doomsayers: “The Curse That Is” by Graves at Sea

Kristy Senko-Hall

May 7, 2016

CULTURE, MUSIC

Graves at Sea’s latest album has been making waves—or rather, shattering dreams—since its release last month on Relapse Records. The cult doom / sludge quartet has previously released a number of undergroun...

Ink, Directed by Jamin Winans

Kylie Dexter

May 1, 2016

CULTURE, FILM

In 2009, the independent film Ink, made on a budget of $250,000 by director Jamin Winans and his production company Double Edge films, was illegally downloaded over 400,000 times from a file sharing website...

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