John Moods is the solo project of Jonathan Jarzyna from the experimental Berlin pop band Fenster. He released his first album The Essential John Moods, which he recorded on his cell phone while travelling, early in 2018 on the Mansions… Continue Reading
Greta Van Fleet is an American rock band from Frankenmuth, Michigan, formed in 2012. The band was formed in 2012 by twin brothers Josh and Jake Kiszka, their younger brother Sam, and Kyle Hauck. The band name was created when Kyle Hauck heard… Continue Reading
Risky Business is a 1983 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Paul Brickman, making his directorial debut. It stars Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay. The film launched Cruise to stardom. It covers themes including materialism, loss of innocence, coming of age and capitalism; when a Chicago teenager is looking for fun… Continue Reading
Viceværten (A caretaker’s tale in the english version) is a 2012 Danish drama film directed by theatre director Katrine Wiedemann based on a screenplay by Kim Fupz Aakeson. Per (Lars Mikkelsen) is a bitter, misogynist, caretaker. His wife left him, his son is a… Continue Reading
Enter the Void is a 2009 English-language French drama film written and directed by Gaspar Noé and starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, and Cyril Roy. Set in the neon-lit nightclub environments of Tokyo, the story follows Oscar, a young American drug dealer who gets shot by… Continue Reading
VeChain (VET) exists to disrupt traditional supply chain models, an industry which before blockchain had remained little changed over the decades. VeChain (VET) is a blockchain-powered supply chain platform. Begun in 2015 and launched in June 2016, VeChain aims to… Continue Reading
Enjin is a Singapore-based technology company that provides services for building gaming communities as well as services for blockchain game developers. Enjin allows game developers to tokenize in-game items on the Ethereum blockchain. It uses Enjin Coin (ENJ), an ERC-20 token, to back… Continue Reading
Theta (THETA) is a blockchain powered network purpose-built for video streaming. Launched in March 2019, the Theta mainnet operates as a decentralized network in which users share bandwidth and computing resources on a peer-to-peer (P2P) basis. Developers say that the… Continue Reading
Right Up Your Alley is an impressive one take video shot by a drone as it makes its way around a bowling alley in Minnesota. While it may look like the video has been edited together, it is all actually… Continue Reading
They have just fallen in love, yet know little about each other. During a romantic walk through the forest, they try to connect. Answering her questions about important episodes from his life, he reveals himself to her. But his questions… Continue Reading
Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy-drama film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to adopt a new identity as a woman to land a job. The movie stars Dustin… Continue Reading
Nose Nose Nose Eyes, directed by Jiwon Moon, is yet another great short film from the festival circuit to appear on Alter. The story, as described by the producers is very simple: The terrifying day a ten year old girl… Continue Reading
Thelma & Louise is a 1991 American female buddy road film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri. It stars Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise, two friends who embark on a road trip which ends up in unforeseen… Continue Reading
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
Surf photographer Mickey Smith artfully crafts and narrates an immensely powerful and brooding glimpse at some of Ireland’s heaviest, and coldest, waves.
Misery is a 1990 American psychological thriller film based on Stephen King’s 1987 novel and starring James Caan as writer Paul Sheldon and Kathy Bates as obsessed fan Annie Wilkes. After a car accident, Sheldon is trapped in his vehicle in the middle of… Continue Reading
Le meraviglie (The Wonders in the english version) is a 2014 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Alice Rohrwacher. It was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival; it won the Grand Prix. Rohrwacher’s richly textured sophomore feature centers… Continue Reading
Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano. It stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, and Martin Balsam, and was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film centers on an encounter between… Continue Reading
Cream Soda are two Moscow-based producers, Dima Nova and Ilya Gadaev. Cream Soda’s music is full of the warmth of vintage synthesizers, classic house vibes and captivating vocals. Cream Soda is honest, festive house music with a late Eighties-early Nineties… Continue Reading
Lust For a Vampire is a 1971 British Hammer Horror film directed by Jimmy Sangster, starring Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford, Suzanna Leigh, Michael Johnson, and Yutte Stensgaard. It is the second film in the so-called Karnstein Trilogy loosely based on the J. Sheridan Le Fanu novella Carmilla. It was preceded by The Vampire Lovers (1970) and… Continue Reading
Looking to create a short that captured the multicultural aspect of Switzerland, Christophe Saber’s Discipline is a dialogue-heavy film brimming with strong social themes. Based around conservations in a grocery store, which quickly get out of hand, Saber’s short is sure to… Continue Reading
A bizarre, yet compelling amalgamation of tones, Sew Torn is both dark and clever. A fun little ride short film that continually manages to surprise the viewer across it’s quick run-time. It’s also a perfect encapsulation of what I love about the… Continue Reading
Alexander Giannascoli, better known by his stage name Alex G, is a multi-instrumentalist from Philadelphia who started his career as a bedroom singer/songwriter, building up an audience through a series of DIY releases on Bandcamp. He has two older siblings, Matt (David… Continue Reading
Skywatch is a near-future sci-fi vision directed by Colin Levy, centering on two teen boys who hack an ubiquitous consumer drone delivery service called NexPort in order to prank their neighbors. Naturally things go badly, and when a dangerous conspiracy is uncovered by… Continue Reading
Whiteout from writer/director Lance Edmands is a tense, well-crafted single-take short. The gimmick here, as a cinematic device, is that everything takes place from the perspective of the backseat of a car. Taking place on a dark rural road in the… Continue Reading
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) is a 1988 Italian drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. The film offers a nostalgic look at films and the effect they have on a young boy who grows up in and around the title village movie… Continue Reading
The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 American dark fantasy-comedy film directed by George Miller and starring Jack Nicholson as Daryl Van Horne, alongside Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon as the eponymous witches. The film is based upon a novel by John Updike. On Thursday nights three female friends, Alex (Cher), Sukie… Continue Reading
Set on one fateful night, six friends gather for their monthly ‘games night’ and accidentally unleash a demonic force that might tear them and their friendships into pieces. Don’t Move is the 8th slice in Bloody Cuts’ anthology of short horror… Continue Reading
Death Becomes Her is a 1992 American black comedy directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, and Goldie Hawn. The film focuses on a pair of rivals (Streep and Hawn), who drink a magic potion that promises eternal youth, but experience unpleasant side effects when they… Continue Reading
Resolut directed by René Schweitzer, Alex Negret, Jonas Bock, Romina Ecker, Jovana Reisinger, Luise Lindner, Elena Hell and Aline Bender; it’s a very grim short with great performances about two imprisoned women. One is severely injured and the other one… Continue Reading
Ruby Haunt (fka Haunt) is a musical project conceived by childhood friends Wyatt Ininns and Victor Pakpour via opposite ends of the coast (Los Angeles and Portland). The duo wrote their first three EPs this way, exchanging musical ideas over email, removed from any sort of immediacy… Continue Reading
Hardly anybody has brought electronic music from Berlin to the farthest flung corners of the world with more passion and enthusiasm than these two heavyweights. Moderat; Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary are bass music heroes. Together with a veritable army of… Continue Reading
The kind of short film where you’ll need a minute to recover after the credits roll, Tom Noakes’ Nursery Rhymes disorientates its audience initially via a surreal, contextless opening. Confusion gives way to a slowly unfolding puzzle however, serving up revelations all the… Continue Reading
Inbetween Movies is a new Swiss electro-shoegazing act, enchanting with dream pop and classic indie melodies. Lava, their first single, is embedded in cinematic elements. The track is about chance: nothing is predictable, everything is changeable. The song was inspired… Continue Reading
Nathan John Feuerstein known by his initials NF is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. Feuerstein has credited Eminem as his prime influence in hip hop, claiming that at one point that was all he listened to. NF’s style has also been compared to Logic and Machine Gun… Continue Reading
Parasite is a 2019 South Korean black comedy thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho. Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together… Continue Reading
Can you simultaneously be two things or does that make you neither? Alma is in between everything: raised in the Netherlands by Bosnian parents, no longer a girl, but not really a woman yet. She hardly knows her father, but… Continue Reading
Walking alone in a city shouldn’t be an adrenaline-inducing experience. Taking public transport by oneself shouldn’t be a fraught choice. For women it can be though, and Shelly Lauman’s Birdie taps into that universal fear and confronts its viewers with a scenario… Continue Reading
Ruby Haunt (fka Haunt) is a musical project conceived by childhood friends Wyatt Ininns and Victor Pakpour via opposite ends of the coast (Los Angeles and Portland). The duo wrote their first three EPs this way, exchanging musical ideas over email, removed from any sort of immediacy… Continue Reading