Glass Animals are an English psychedelic band formed in Oxford in 2010. Led by singer, songwriter, and producer Dave Bayley, the group also features his childhood friends Joe Seaward, Ed Irwin-Singer and Drew MacFarlane. Bayley wrote and produced all three Glass Animals albums. The first, Zaba (2014),… Continue Reading
The Prodigy is an English electronic music band from Essex, England, formed in 1990 by keyboardist and songwriter Liam Howlett. The first line-up of the band also included MC and vocalist Maxim, dancer and vocalist Keith Flint, dancer and live keyboardist Leeroy Thornhill, and dancer and vocalist Sharky. Along with the… Continue Reading
Twenty-year-old David lives in the moment. He juggles a variety of different odd jobs and continues to put off, just for a while longer, the time to make more serious decisions. This solitary daydreamer succumbs to the charm of Lena,… Continue Reading
Taking us from day through night, the beautiful 4k short film shows us bustling streets, metro systems chugging through the city as well as the vast amounts of park space available in Berlin. It was made by Efim Graboy and… Continue Reading
The Blob is a 1958 American independent science-fiction horror film by De Luxe, about a growing, corrosive, alien amoeboidal entity that crashes to Earth from outer space inside a meteorite. It devours and dissolves citizens in the small communities of Phoenixville and Downingtown, PA, growing larger, redder, and more aggressive each time it does… Continue Reading
Summer Heart is a Swedish dream pop act and the solo project of singer-songwriter and multi instrumentalist David Alexander. He is best known for his nostalgic lo-fi sound. Summer Heart was formed in 2011 just after David Alexander returned to Sweden. His first release, Please… Continue Reading
After a dormant period following the release of the Gallery EP in 2012, Craft Spells’ Justin Vallesteros is back with the gorgeously ambitious Nausea. It’s Craft Spells’ second proper full length LP, and first since 2010′s critically acclaimed Idle Labor. Since last on… 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
Police is a 1985 French romantic crime drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and starring Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, and Sandrine Bonnaire. Written by Catherine Breillat, the film is about a moody, jaded police detective investigating a drug ring who falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into… Continue Reading
Sports is an American indie rock band from Gambier, Ohio. Sports formed in 2012 when all members were attending Kenyon College. They released their first full-length album in 2014 on Bandcamp titled Sunchokes. In 2015, Sports signed to Father/Daughter Records, where they released their second full-length album titled All Of… Continue Reading
Colin Kennedy’s award-winning, unconventional romantic comedy, I Love Luci, is a film about missing teeth, unrequited love and a dog’s destiny to bring two people together. A short with surprising depth, Kennedy’s film cleverly skates between comedy, romance and social commentary,… 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
Breaking Glass is a 1980 British film directed by Brian Gibson; starring Hazel O’Connor, Phil Daniels and Jonathan Pryce, that depicts the rise and fall of Kate (O’Connor), an angry but creative young singer and songwriter from London in the 80’s, backed by a hustler (Daniels) and… Continue Reading
Smithereens is a 1982 film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Susan Berman, Brad Rinn, and punk rock icon Richard Hell. The film follows a narcissistic young woman from New Jersey who comes to New York City to join the punk subculture, only to find that it’s gravitated towards Los Angeles;… Continue Reading
Point Blank is 1967 american hypnotic film of a man’s thirst for revenge. The pacing, color choices, and atmospheric music, led by Lee Marvin’s deadpan portrayal of Walker, yields a mesmerizing experience for the viewer. Shot and left for dead… Continue Reading
Le Ballon Rouge (The red balloon in the english version) is a 1956 French fantasy comedy-drama featurette written, produced, and directed by Albert Lamorisse. The thirty-five-minute short, which follows the adventures of a young boy who one day finds a sentient, mute, red balloon, was filmed in the Ménilmontant neighbourhood… Continue Reading
Mercury Rev is an American indie rock band formed in 1989 in Buffalo, New York. Original members were David Baker (vocals), Jonathan Donahue (vocals, guitars), Sean Mackowiak, a.k.a. “Grasshopper” (guitars, clarinet), Suzanne Thorpe (flute), Dave Fridmann (bass) and Jimy Chambers (drums). With their early records, Mercury Rev offered experimental, psychedelic rock, which gradually shifted to a melodic,… Continue Reading
The Switchblade Sisters is a 1975 action and exploitation film detailing the lives of high school-aged female gang members. It was directed by Jack Hill and stars Joanne Nail, Robbie Lee and Monica Gayle. The film is also known as The Jezebels. The movie was not a success at the box office, but garnered a cult… Continue Reading
Bad Boy Bubby is a 1993 Australian-Italian black comedy/drama film written and directed by Rolf de Heer. Bubby is a 35-year-old man who has never set foot outside his mother’s dingy apartment in the back of a printing press in an industrial area of… Continue Reading
It has endless edges, tints and singularities. Berlin is a power city. You can feel it there. It’s positive and razor sharp simultaneously. Berlin can be strong and complex for its visitors. In the words of the director Alex Soloviev: “I… Continue Reading
The music of Berlin duo Velvet condom is described as a fastidiously gesticulating grind of snapping synthesiser presets, gloomy guitars, droll role-playing, and the sort of casually arch desperation you might expect from twenty-somethings weaned on a steady diet of Kraftwerk,… Continue Reading
White Girl is an American film written and directed by Elizabeth Wood in her directorial debut, in which Leah, a college student, falls hard for a bad boy and then goes to wild extremes to get him back.. It stars Morgan Saylor, Brian Marc and… Continue Reading
The Birds is a 1963 American horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It focuses on a series of sudden and unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California over the course of… Continue Reading
Gardens of the Night is a 2008 drama film, starring Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich, Ryan Simpkins and Tom Arnold. After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street. The film was described by The… 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
The Gift is a Sci-Fi short film filled with a lot of action sequences and an amazing atmosphere depicting a futuristic city of Moscow. More than 20 individual CGI were shot for this short movie resulting in a stunning work… 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
Style Wars is an American 1983 documentary on hip hop culture and its American roots, directed by Tony Silver and produced in collaboration with Henry Chalfant. The film has an emphasis on graffiti, although bboying and rapping are covered to a lesser extent. The film was originally aired on PBS television… 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
Dans l’ombre (In the shadow in the english version) is a film noir short written and directed by Fabrice Mathieu.This prequel short from a feature script, is a research and editing work based on footages from more than fifty movies… 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
Lola rennt (Run Lola run in the english version) is a 1998 German thriller film written and directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Franka Potente as Lola and Moritz Bleibtreu as Manni. The story follows a woman who needs to obtain 100,000 Deutsche Mark in twenty minutes to save her… Continue Reading
Feverist have come a long way in a short time. The band’s strikingly intense live shows won them a slot at The Great Escape, while their desert-bleached noise rock left a scorched trail along the Brighton coastline. Recently playing a packed out headline… Continue Reading
Wild Style is a 1983 hip hop film produced by Charlie Ahearn. Released theatrically in 1983 by First Run Features and later re-released for home video by Rhino Home Video, it is regarded as the first hip hop motion picture. Wild Style takes place in early… Continue Reading
Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. “Exit Through the Gift Shop” tells the incredible true story of how… Continue Reading
Victoria is a 2015 German drama film directed by Sebastian Schipper, starring Laia Costa and Frederick Lau. The film is shot in one single long take by Sturla Brandth Grøvlen from about 4:30 to 7:00 in the Kreuzberg and Mitte neighbourhoods. Victoria, a runaway party girl, is asked by three friendly men to join them… Continue Reading
An eerie tropical fairy tale about a skater girl and the strange characters she encounters on her ride to work, written and directed by Bradley Tangonan.
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
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