Mark Whalen is an up-and-coming artist from Detroit, Michigan. His first album, “Someone To Be” debuted in the summer of 2017. He started recording ideas and music when his father bought him an audio interface and a mic for his birthday. From… Continue Reading
Kapgang (Speed walking in the english version) is a 2014 Danish drama film directed by Niels Arden Oplev. It is based on a novel of the same name by Morten Kirkskov. In 1976 in provincial Denmark, 14-year-old Martin (Villads Bøye) is about to be confirmed when his mother dies… Continue Reading
Child’s Play is a 1988 American slasher film directed and co-written by Tom Holland, and produced by David Kirschner from a story by Don Mancini. Catherine Hicks plays a widowed mother who gives her son a doll for his birthday, unaware that the doll is possessed by the… Continue Reading
Angelina is a 22 year old community college student, yearning to get out of her small town. However, her online persona, Lolz-ita, is anything but average. With a huge Instagram following, she gets thousands of likes on her feminist, sex-positive,… Continue Reading
The Karate Kid is a 1984 American martial arts drama film produced by Jerry Weintraub, directed by John G. Avildsen, written by Robert Mark Kamen, in which a martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager. It stars Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, William Zabka and Elisabeth Shue. It is… Continue Reading
“Swindon – A Portrait of Youth” is a snapshot of opinions about growing up in the UK. Teenagers rarely have a voice and a platform to speak about their aspirations and fears. With far-reaching political decisions being made around them,… Continue Reading
Aus dem Nichts (In the fade in the english version) is a 2017 German drama film directed by Fatih Akin. The film centers on a woman seeking justice against neo-Nazis for the murder of her husband and son. It’s the latest in a recent… Continue Reading
À Nos Amours (To Our Loves in the english version) is a 1983 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and written by Arlette Langmann and Pialat, about a 15-year-old girl named Suzanne (Bonnaire) who experiences her sexual awakening and becomes promiscuous, but is unable to… Continue Reading
Sam starts working at Spoetnik, a clandestine chips stand named after its specialty. Right across the street is a brothel with an alluring girl who evidently needs Sam’s help. A slightly surreal tale of love at first sight, Noël Loozen’s Spoetnik doesn’t do… Continue Reading
Friends is a band from Brooklyn, New York formed in September 2010 and disbanded sometime in 2013. The group released the singles “Friend Crush” and “I’m His Girl” in 2011. On 2012, BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens selected the band’s third single, “Mind Control”, as his Hottest Record in the… Continue Reading
Just One of the Guys is a 1985 comedy film, directed by Lisa Gottlieb. Terri Griffith (Joyce Hyser) is an aspiring teenage journalist living in Phoenix, Arizona who feels that her teachers don’t take her school newspaper articles seriously because of her good looks. After failing to get… Continue Reading
After releasing only a handful of singles this year, L.A.’s very own Kid Bloom finally dropped their A Different State of Mind EP, and it is the epitome of ‘70s psychedelia-dipped pop. The quintet is comprised of singer-guitarist Lennon Kloser, singer/guitarist/keyboardist Jesse… Continue Reading
Blood And Water is a short film by writer/director Brian Blum, about how an Olympic diver’s relationship with his mother deteriorates as he fails to bounce back from a horrific training accident. It doesn’t innovate much on a somehow common sport… Continue Reading
A depressed sanitation worker wants to quit. But when a curse from a raccoon turns him into an ever growing trash magnet threatening to swallow up everything he loves, he must confront his fate and become the Garbage Man. Alan… Continue Reading
Sam’s perfectly polished world is upended when Georgina goes missing. Whilst everyone acts like nothing has happened Sam drifts back into his memories of Georgina and realises he may know more than he wants to remember. Volume is a 2012 short film directed by… Continue Reading
Strassenkaiser is a a road movie through the streets of Berlin, from backyards, parks and bars up to a tower. In an intoxicated Berlin by the summer carnival, there is Noah, a 12 year old boy, non-local, supposed to meet… Continue Reading
In the aftermath of a deadly haunting in a small suburban home, a sinister omnipresent entity proceeds to cause havoc in the private lives of a young boy, an unsuspecting teen, and an absent minded inspector. The short film written… Continue Reading
DIIV are an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York City, formed in 2011. Zachary Cole Smith (former touring guitarist of Soft Black, Darwin Deez and Beach Fossils) started a solo project in 2011. Smith, who originally named the project Dive after the Nirvana song of the same name, put together a live… Continue Reading
Disconnect is a 2012 American drama film directed by Henry Alex Rubin. It explores how people experience the negative sides of modern communication technology by following three interconnecting stories. An ambitious, up-and-coming reporter Nina Dunham has much success with her interview with underage video chat-room… Continue Reading
The Toxic Avenger is a 1984 American superhero horror comedy film directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman (credited as Samuel Weil) and written by Kaufman and Joe Ritter. Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat… Continue Reading
Hala is a short film written and directed by Minhal Baig, which follows a 16-year-old Muslim teenager Hala (Tess Granfield) as she attempts to explore her sexuality and identity while growing up in a conservative, religious household. Striking in both style and… Continue Reading
Kristof Brandl catapulted himself into the world of filmmaking when he was only 17 years old. Back then, he released his first short film ‘Pop Le Cheval’, planned as a test on a DSLR, which was widely acclaimed and became… Continue Reading
Surface of Atlantic is an indie band from Montreal, Canada, who’s music is a blend of folk, cinematic ambiances and indie rock. The band has been compared in the past to Pink Floyd, Beck and Sigur Ros for their experimental… Continue Reading
Less Than Zero is a 1987 American drama film directed by Marek Kanievska, very loosely based on Bret Easton Ellis’ novel of the same name. The film stars Andrew McCarthy as Clay, a college freshman returning home for Christmas to spend time with his ex-girlfriend Blair (Jami Gertz) and… Continue Reading
Warpaint is an American indie rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2004. Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante mixed and mastered the band’s debut EP, Exquisite Corpser eleased in 2008. Current RHCP guitarist Josh Klinghoffer performed drums and guitar on the EP in 2007. It was followed by their full-length… Continue Reading
Chelsea Nikkel, better known by her stage name Princess Chelsea, is an experimental ‘space pop’ musician from Auckland, New Zealand, and a previous member of twee pop band The Brunettes and Auckland band Teenwolf. Nikkel is associated with the Lil’ Chief Records collective and is a part-time member of Auckland soul group… Continue Reading
Billy Elliot is a 2000 British dance drama film produced by Greg Brenman and Jon Finn, written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry.The film is set in north-eastern England during the 1984-85 coal miners’ strike, it stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer dealing with the negative stereotype of the male… Continue Reading
In an abandoned beach house, a solitary girl finds a mysterious camera that reveals something unexpected. A short film by Peter Lewis. The Camera is a short that is perfect in its vagueness, lived-in and mystical. It plays upon that wonderful, inexorable… Continue Reading
Sarah and Bram’s road trip takes a horrifying turn when they stop for a bathroom break in the dark woods of Wallonia. Arrêt Pipi is a short horror film directed by Maarten Groen and commissioned by Dutch public broadcaster VPRO.… Continue Reading
Natasha Khan, better known by her stage name Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has released three studio albums, Fur and Gold (2006), Two Suns (2009) and The Haunted Man (2012), and received Mercury Prize nominations for Fur and Gold and Two Suns. Khan is also the… Continue Reading
Sleep Party People was formed in 2008 as a project of Brian Batz, influenced by artists like Boards Of Canada, David Lynch and Erik Satie, starting a unique proposal of the Danish music scene. Since its beginning, the one-man project has been characterized by wearing… Continue Reading
An emotionally engaging coming-of-ager set in Rotterdam, “Lena” features one of the most complex and endearing teen heroines of recent years. Continually onscreen and effortlessly carrying the film, non-pro Emma Levie bravely embodies the title character, while Christophe van Rompaey… Continue Reading
X+Y (released in the US as A Brilliant Young Mind) is a 2014 British drama film directed by Morgan Matthews, starring Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, and Sally Hawkins. The film, inspired by Beautiful Young Minds, focuses on a teenage English mathematics prodigy named Nathan (Asa Butterfield) who has difficulty understanding people,… Continue Reading
Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados (Living is easy with eyes closed in the english version) is a 2013 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by David Trueba, and starring Javier Cámara. The film’s title comes from a line in the song “Strawberry Fields… Continue Reading
Mommy is a 2014 Canadian drama film directed by Xavier Dolan. It was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. The film stars Anne Dorval as Diane Després, a widowed mother who is overwhelmed by… Continue Reading
Directed by Anton Sheptooha and Nick L’Barrow, “I Miss You” is a short film based on Moonfruit Comic’s”Reasons.” With heartbreaking cinematography and perfectly-paced narration, the film examines the aftermath of a breakup, viewed through a nostalgic lens that follows a relationship’s beginning… Continue Reading
Waste is a short film directed by Anton Groves and produced by Studioset that features one man’s continuous encounters with pop-up papercraft monsters. The film’s creators have also released several video tutorials explaining how to create your own colorful monsters.
Die Blechtrommel (The Tin drum in the english version) is a 1979 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Günter Grass. It was directed and co-written by Volker Schlöndorff. Stylistically, it is a surrealistic black comedy. The film features scenes in which Bennent, then 11 years of age… Continue Reading
Macbriare Samuel Lanyon “Mac” DeMarco is a Canadian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is best known for his solo career, during which he has released two full-length studio albums, (2012) and Salad Days (2014), and one EP, Rock and Roll Night Club (2012). His style has been… Continue Reading
Baru is a German indie pop band that was founded in 2007 in Werdau, Sachsen under the name Neon Pingu pussies. In 2011, the band renamed to Baru, which refers to the pseudonym of the French comic artist Hervé Barulea. On… Continue Reading