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Thirty-five years after the Romanian Revolution, many questions remain. An elaborate cinematic concert based on the documentary “Revolutia Nevazuta” (The Unseen Revolution) treated wounds as it was presented in the premiere as part of the Timișoara Community Gala 2023. Its ability to transport feelings through time was primarily due to the brilliance […]
‘Where Does a Body End?’ is an intimate portrait of the band SWANS, from their roots as a brutal, confrontational post-punk band that emerged from the same early 1980s era NYC that gave us Sonic Youth (and, somehow, Madonna) through their ill-fated bid at mainstream success in the 90s indie-rock gold rush, […]
Drawing inspiration from a multitude of genres including pop, indie, or rock’n’roll, this dreamy song opens up gently and immediately showcases Edith’s and Frank’s vivid imagery. Separately, this song is an enduring and ever-evolving link between life and death, between relationships, or one state of mind and another. ‘Sufletu’i Mai […]
What’s your relationship to femininity? Yago Hunt-Laudi is a multi-disciplinary editor and director specializing in brand imagery and filming. Bouncing between Europe and the United States, Yago worked for the Manhattan-based creative agency Matte Projects as an Editor and Creative. “Sex work. The phrase evokes so much emotion, yet we understand […]
MGM and United Artists Releasing have released the trailer for “Licorice Pizza”, the first film from Oscar-nominated writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s since 2017’s “Phantom Thread”. Set in 1973 in the same locale as Anderson’s “Boogie Nights”, “Magnolia”, and “Punch Drunk Love”, the new pic stars Alana Haim from the all-sister rock band Haim and Philip Seymour […]
Based on a non-fiction book by Judith C. Brown, “Benedetta” is the latest motion picture from Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven. It focuses on the years in which Benedetta rose to the summit of the Theatine convent in Tuscany, Italy. In the film, premiering at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, nuns […]
The prolific Japanese writer and director Sion Sono, ‘Bacurau’ co-director Kleber Mendonça Filho, ‘Evolution’ helmer Lucile Hadzihalilovic, ‘The Wild Boys’ director Bertrand Mandico, and the duo of Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani (‘Let the Corpses Tan’) have teamed together for a film that features five poetic visions of sexual ecstasy. With the title of ‘Shining Sex’, Screen Daily reports […]
Abraham Fogg is a multi-awarded audio/visual duo, which creates radical dark narrative content for adults. “Metamorphosis”, Grégoire Vaillant and Charles-Edouard Dangelser‘s first EP, is accompanied by a two-part horror short film about the life and work of French contemporary artist Olivier de Sagazan. Based on the life and work of Olivier de Sagazan, this […]
The Spheres City, the first futuristic habitat of Tangible Utopias wins the Open Frame Award, at goEast Film Festival, becoming the first internationally awarded Romanian VR project, a milestone for the immersive entertainment field. The experience was displayed on Viveport during the online edition of the festival and was joined by a pitching session detailing […]
Anul Nou – Corina Andrian 27th DECEMBER 2019 On 27th December 2019, I went to “The Festival of Customs and Traditions on New Year in Suceava” (Festivalul de Datini si Obiceiuri de Anul Nou la Suceava). It is a daylong parade celebrating (mostly pagan) traditions from across Romania where all […]