Josef Gatti, a Melbourne-based filmmaker and pioneering cinematographer, spent nearly a decade building the “trippy science concept album” of Phenomena, his feature documentary debut. Phenomena is...
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Vee Hua 華婷婷When I first came across the work of multi-hyphenate artist and educator, elijah jamal asani, it was through film. A short film that he made for a video poetry film festival, to be exact. And what struck me immediately – before I even dove deeply...
Saelyx FinnaThe 2024 edition of True/False, the annual festival of film and music in Columbia, Missouri, features 42 musical acts who perform between February 28th and March 3rd. According to True/False, “Music touches every part of the festival:...
INHERITANCE: a complex word that encompasses a vast array of associations, feelings, memories, thoughts, cultures, and ways of being in the world. With his debut self-titled record of the same name, released on AKP Recordings, Palestinian-American...
Miles GinozaJJJJJerome Ellis speaks with a stutter. He asked that his stutters be included in the transcription of this interview as a gesture towards others who speak dysfluently, so that they might see themselves recognized here. JJJJJerome Ellis stands with...
In Los Angeles-based musician Patrick Shiroishi‘s latest music video for “To Kill a Wind-Up Bird,” excitable free jazz comes face-to-wrinkly-puppet-face with a Looney Tunes-inspired experiment, which sets skronking sounds to...
Allen HuangTo an impresario like Japanese musician Masayoshi Fujita, switching from vibraphone to marimba is a move that doesn’t come lightly. His latest album, Bird Ambience, contains the spirit of intrepid exploration; the first sketches of a master artist...
In the music video for “All the Unknown” from instrumental Turkish-German and Swiss duo Grandbrothers, the band’s long-time collaborator Manfred Borsch captures the track’s delightfully melodramatic moods through one...