Right up our alley
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
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Cinema Paradiso
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
Lava by Inbetween movies
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
Birdie
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
Chinatown by Starcadian
Starcadian is an independent electronic musician based in Brooklyn, NY. Not much is known about this secretive producer, who first appeared on Soundcloud in late 2011 with the single, ‘Girls Of Midnight’. The follow up hit song ‘HE^RT’ and its… Continue Reading
The doors
The Doors is a 1991 American biographical film about the 1960–70s rock band of the same name which emphasizes the life of its lead singer, Jim Morrison. It was directed by Oliver Stone, and stars Val Kilmer as Morrison and Meg Ryan as Pamela Courson (Morrison’s companion). The film portrays Morrison as the… Continue Reading
El bar
El bar (The bar in the english version) is a 2017 Spanish black comedy thriller film directed, produced and co-written by Álex de la Iglesia. A group of completely different people are trapped inside a cafe in Madrid; anyone that leaves is immediately shot by… Continue Reading
Animals
When the train doors fail to open at the train station, the people inside get understandably irked. But when the same happens at the following stop, and the one after that, things quickly start to get out of hand. Animals… Continue Reading
Fyre: the greatest party that never happened
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened is a documentary film about Billy McFarland and the failed Fyre Festival of 2017, directed by Chris Smith. It was released on Netflix in Januray, 2019. The film was co-produced by Jerry Media, the social media agency responsible for promotion and covering up… Continue Reading
Happiness
A brilliant analogy satire to life on Earth, Happiness tells the story of a rodent’s unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfillment. Cutts imagines humanity as a horde of rats, adored by the marketing god, bewitched by Black Friday or Cyber Monday.… Continue Reading
Minilook Berlin
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
Pay no mind by Beach house
Beach House is a dream pop duo from Baltimore, Maryland, formed in 2004. The band consists of French-born Victoria Legrand and Baltimore native Alex Scally. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim and has been followed by… Continue Reading
The blob
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
Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice is a 1988 American comedy-fantasy film directed by Tim Burton. The plot revolves around a recently deceased young couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who become ghosts haunting their former home, and an obnoxious, devious ghost named Betelgeuse (pronounced “Beetlejuice”, portrayed by Michael Keaton) from the Netherworld… Continue Reading
La Huida
La Huida (The runaway in the english version) from director Víctor Carrey, is one of those films that gives the viewer too many details right at the beginning. However, it does neatly tie everything up in the end, from the random passing… Continue Reading
Swindon – A Portrait of a youth
“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
Data Kiss by Com Truise
Seth Haley (known by his stage name Com Truise) is an American electronic musician from Oneida, New York. His Com Truise stage name is a spoonerism of the name of American actor Tom Cruise. Originally an art director, he turned in his resignation prior to his first release as Com Truise. Prior… Continue Reading
Nights & days by Blouse
Blouse is an American Alternative rock band based in Portland, Oregon; formed in 2010 by Charlie Hilton (Vocals, Guitar) and Patrick Adams (Bass) while attending the Graphic Design program at Portland State University. They began to record with Jacob Portrait (Producer, Guitar) at the warehouse in Portland, Oregon. Following the… Continue Reading
Daguerréotypes
Originally shot in the mid-70s, Agnès Varda’s vérité documentary Daguerréotypes has aged splendidly, acquiring flavors that would’ve been inconceivable at the time it was made. Back then, Varda hauled her camera around her Paris neighborhood on the Rue Daguerre, intending to capture what… Continue Reading
Lamu by Rivver
Montreal beatsmith Rivver (François Bélanger) has a rich production style that bridges the gap between organic and electronic. The Debut EP is a deep yet sensuous opus capturing those burning nights of bedroom affairs. The effects spine tingling synths, gut throbbing… Continue Reading
Lady daydream by Mr Twin sister
Mr Twin Sister, formerly Twin Sister, is an american band from Long Island. Their music has been described as chill wave, indie pop, dream pop, and disco. They have been compared to Cocteau Twins and Portishead. They have toured the US and Europe and… Continue Reading
Home
We often think of houses as strong, solid permanent things. In fact they can be weak, fragile and mobile. ‘Home’ explores the idea of what makes a house a home. A beautifully photographed minimalist short film documentary directed by Thomas… Continue Reading
Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht
Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht (If I Think of Germany at Night in the english version) is Romuald Karmakar’s fourth documentary film about techno music and related musical styles. Much more than a portrait of DJs, musicians and techno… Continue Reading
Feel it all around by Washed Out
Ernest Greene, better known by his stage name Washed Out, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. His first recordings have been described as “drowsy, distorted, dance pop-influenced tracks that brought to mind Neon Indian and Memory Tapes”. Washed Out’s style has been identified with the chillwave movement. He has… Continue Reading
Holy Solitude by Psychic Shakes
Psychic Shakes is the solo project of Southampton-based Max McLellan, who produces a hypnotic and funky sound featuring suave vocals, melodic guitar twangs, and “shimmering 7th chords”, all in a quest to create the perfect sound track for a “post-coital… Continue Reading
What people read in the tram # 6
While riding the tram over the last weeks, this is a general glimpse of the books and reading trends of the berliners in the public transport that I have observed: To kill a mockingbird (Wer die Nachtigall stört in german)… Continue Reading
Slumlord rising by Neon indian
Neon Indian is an American electronic music band from Denton, Texas. The music is composed by Mexican-born Alan Palomo, who is also known for his work with the band Ghosthustler, and as the solo artist VEGA. The band’s debut studio album, Psychic Chasms, was released in… Continue Reading
Toilets
Toilets is an award winning short film set in different toilets through the years, about the absurd never ending task of trying to find love. Gabriel Bisset-Smith, writer and director, was named one of Dazed & Confused magazine’s Dazed Visionaries… Continue Reading
Bad boy Bubby
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
Berlin the inner layer
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
L by Tycho
Tycho is an American ambient music project led by Scott Hansen (born 1976 or 1977) as primary composer, songwriter and producer. Hailing from San Francisco, California, he is known as ISO50 for his photographic and design works. His music is a combination of downtempo vintage-style synthesizers and ambient… Continue Reading
The birds
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
Embarrassed
It’s not unusual to experience overwhelming amounts of unease and uncertainty when you have your first child; there’s a societal pressure to be the perfect parent, and anxiety, sleep loss, and depression are all natural reactions to childbirth. What isn’t… Continue Reading
Pop Le Cheval
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
Impact Berlin
Hypnotic footage of Berlin from Timon de Graaf Boele with Apparat music as a soundtrack.
The Christmas light killer
Every night in December people in a small suburb of Philadelphia flock to a holiday light show. They drive at a snails pace through the 2 mile stretch of beautiful light displays, listening to holiday music, soaking up the Christmas… Continue Reading
Berlin in July 1945
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
La grande bellezza
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
What people read in the tram # 5
While riding the tram over the last weeks, I found myself observing what people read and decided to start a compilation of the different genres and authors found in the public transport. This is the fifth five-book instalment: The Glass… Continue Reading
What people read in the tram # 4
While riding the tram over the last weeks, I found myself observing what people read and decided to start a compilation of the different genres and authors found in the public transport. This is the fourth four-book instalment: Hour of… Continue Reading