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
The Apartment is a 1960 American comedy-drama film that was produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and which stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. Calvin Clifford (C. C.) “Bud” Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is a lonely office drudge at a national insurance corporation in a high-rise building… Continue Reading
Sommer vorm Balkon (Summer in Berlin in the english version) is a 2005 German tragicomic film directed by Andreas Dresen, which focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin. Katrin, a jobless single mom, and Nike, a nurse,… Continue Reading
Really bizarre, drama, fantasy, drug film combo. A man spends time in his lonely mansion, picks up a loose chick and brings her home. The man’s wife turns up and the two femmes ignore him for some lesbian fun. Things… Continue Reading
Gloria is a 2013 Chilean-Spanish drama film directed by Sebastián Lelio. Gloria (Paulina García) is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her grown son and daughter have their own lives. She meets Rodolfo (Sergio Hernández), a senior who, like her, is seeking companionship, but he cannot give up… Continue Reading
Hypnotic footage of Berlin from Timon de Graaf Boele with Apparat music as a soundtrack.
Michiel Thomassen, stage name Mike Mago, is a Dutch music producer. Mago collaborated with the Canadian electropop act Dragonette on the joint single “Outlines” (2014). He also had a few solo singles, including “The Show”, “Man Hands”, and “Hey!” He is the founder of his own… Continue Reading
Lost in Translation is a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola. It was her second feature film after The Virgin Suicides (1999). It stars Bill Murray as aging actor Bob Harris, who befriends college graduate Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) in a Tokyo hotel. Coppola devised the idea of Lost… Continue Reading
Maybe one day is a short film directed by Chris Cottam, that conveys a sense of life and experience, extreme and heightened feelings as well as pensive and quiet moments. It is reminiscence, a visual diary and a document of… Continue Reading
Il gatto a nove code (The cat o’nine tails in the english version) is a 1971 Italian thriller (giallo) film written and directed by Dario Argento. Although it is the middle entry in Argento’s so-called “Animal Trilogy” (along with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Four… Continue Reading
Chromatics is an American electronic music band from Portland, Oregon that formed in 2001. The band consists of Ruth Radelet (vocals, guitar, synthesizer), Adam Miller (guitar, vocoder), Nat Walker (drums, synthesizer), and Johnny Jewel (producer, multi-instrumentalist). The band originally featured a trademark sound indebted to punkand lo-fi that was described as “noisy”… Continue Reading
A short film by Cody Stokes about a man who is desperately trying to smarten up for a job interview, and ends up at a ‘barberless barber’. The majority of the film is made using stop-motion. The way in which… Continue Reading
From Kronos Media comes a pretty astounding montage of video showing Berlin in July 1945, just two months after the Nazis lost The Battle of Berlin and Hitler committed suicide, and a month after the allies signed the Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany and… Continue Reading
Mysterious Skin tells the story of two pre-adolescent boys who are sexually abused by their baseball coach, and how it affects their lives in different ways into their young adulthood. One boy becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous male prostitute, while the other… Continue Reading
La grande bellezza (The great beauty in the english version) is a 2013 Italian film co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. The film opens with a quote from Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night: “To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination… Continue Reading
Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen and produced by Charles H. Joffe. The screenplay was written by Allen and Marshall Brickman. Allen co-stars as a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway) but falls in love with his… Continue Reading
Prag (Prague in english) is a 2006 award winning danish Film written and directed by Ole Christian Madsen. A slowly crumbling relationship begins to collapse while a man performs an unpleasant family errand in this drama. Christoffer (Mads Mikkelsen) and… Continue Reading
What happens when a single cup of coffee is not enough? “Maybe” is about a moment where creativity and love come together. The moment just before asking someone out on a date can be tortuous. To think about what you… Continue Reading
This is when we met is a short film written and directed by Sean Cunningham, about Robbie and Mary, a couple as they live out an entire relationship in three minutes.
O Avô (Grandpa in the english version) is a one minute short film written and directed by André Marques about the day on the life of a grandfather and his grandson. It won the People’s Choice Award, Filminute Audience Award and… Continue Reading
Kleingeld (Small change in the english version), is an Oscar nominated Short Film directed by Marc Andreas-Bochert, in which a businessman and a begger meet daily on the street. The businessman gives the beggar some small change each day and… Continue Reading
The Avener is a multi-faceted, discrete and complex artist. As a confirmed producer, The Avener has multiplied collaborations, and decides now to focus on his solo career. He finds his inspiration through his different experiences around the globe. At the end… Continue Reading