James Nares : Street

· Leave a comment

James Nares’ 61-minute slow-motion video entitled Street, the centrepiece of the wide-ranging, similarly named current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – guest curated entirely by Nares himself – has been drawing vast crowds of transfixed patrons daily since

Berlin Film Festival Day 6

· Leave a comment

Our time at its sad and inevitable close, day six is the culmination of the final few films we could bore pens into notepads about and the sponging of the last hours of film festival fever. Re-energised by imminent departure,

Berlin Film Festival Day 4

· Leave a comment

The years competition is starting to take shape but nothing as of yet has really blown us away. Hoping something would rectify this, Gloria, The Nun and Vic and Flo Saw a Bear were all at the forefront of our

Berlin Film Festival Day 3

· Leave a comment

Flicking through films to see on the train yesterday morning, day three looked like a promising and varied day full of great prospects. It didn’t disappoint: most of what we saw was enjoyable in one regard or another. So, casting

Berlin Film Festival Day 2

· Leave a comment

Day 2 and as with the snow, the fervor has laid; a more workable passion remains. The programme is unmistakably huge and the enormity will dwarf viewing ambition from here on out – there are simply too many films and

Berlin Film Festival Day 1

· Leave a comment

Through the architectural display of Potsdamer Platz cold steel, red carpets, giddy faces, warming trails of camera equipment and the fervent, scattered journalists folding their papers and highlighting screenings to attend today, tomorrow or the next, it’s evident that the

Berlin Film Festival 2013

· Leave a comment

Two more days – as of writing – and the Berlinale will open its cinematic doors once again and usher in a selection of acclaimed and promising talent for the devouring eyes of film aficionados the world over. The festival,

Intel & W Hotels : Four Stories : An Ultrabook Experience

· Leave a comment

In early 2012 a campaign was launched by Intel in partnership with W Hotels to find some of the world’s most promising filmmakers. Titled the Four Stories campaign, it would see acclaimed film director and screenwriter Roman Coppola and his

Sibylle Bergemann : Ghana

· Leave a comment

“I’m interested in the edges of the world, not the centre.” We look back at German photographer Sibylle Bergemann’s ‘Ghana, West Africa’. At the time a transitional series by the artist, and now, many years after her death, one of

Lynne Ramsay : ‘SWIMMER’ & strokes unexpected

· Leave a comment

During the London 2012 Olympic games, there was an undeniable feeling of National pride in the air, and regardless of what country’s flag blew in the wind, an infectious desire to be athletic blew with it. Like you, we too

Present Plus

· Leave a comment

Made in the Present Plus – WeTransfer, Kuvva and One Minute Wonders. In a time where the internet and technology allows people to obtain information and products in a simpler, faster and more effective way than ever before, the creation

Alan Spearman : As I Am

· Leave a comment

“What I do know is… we’re meant to connect. To find each other. Eyes to see. Hands to feel. Hearts to love.” Chris Dean’s heart stopped when he was two. He died but he came back. Then when he was

HBTV : The Videographers Guide

· Leave a comment

“In a way… it’s the greatest time for musical videos ever, because on one side of the coin, you probably can’t make a living doing it. But on the other side of the coin, it’s open to anyone who wants

Nowness : Collected Harmony

· Leave a comment

“I want to make movies that are like an attack. There’s so much noise out there, so I want to attack you.” Harmony Korine, at the age of 18 was catapulted into the American indie film scene in the mid

Pepa Hristova : Sworn Virgins

· 1 Comment

“The Sworn Virgins adapt their roles so perfectly, that over time, they are no longer recognised as women outside of their family. Over the years, the woman in them is lost.” “It’s a man’s world” so we’re told, “but it

Ben Newman : ASOS Puma ‘Os Pixadores’

· Comments Off

“By creating a language, we’re making people think… ask questions. Like any art, if you look at it long enough… you find meaning. Whether it’s our meaning… or yours.” In what was born as retort to the political party slogans

Kahlil Joseph : Seu Jorge ‘The Model’

· Leave a comment

“The Model” – black & white, beautiful, bold and brilliantly Brazilian.   Kahlil Joseph is continually producing short films that are the visual riffs of the music in focus. A director and a photographer, he has built a reputation as

Yung Chang : China Heavyweight

· Comments Off

“The first time we met everyone I was struck by their philosophy of trying to change these rural countryside kids” Encouraged to sallow blood and bone but also learn to relax and appreciate the outdoors: A round in a rural

Evan Burns : The Junk King

· Leave a comment

“When I come out here I disappear into my little world. This is my secret fort… I come out here and let my imagination go wild.” Welcome to Trash Vegas, Texas. On the left hand side you’ll notice a pink

Nowness : Tom Haines : Luminaris

· Leave a comment

“I think they fully believe in the purification element. Pregnant women jump with horses through fire… and guys clutching six-month-old babies”. Taking place in honour of the patron saint of animals St. Anthony, the spectacle Luminarias festival is a celebration

Jeff Staple : 1-2-1 : Mike Tyson

· Leave a comment

“They want to kick my ass now because I’m not no strong pugnacious f**k-up anymore”. This is the 16th instalment in the “1-2-1 with Jeff Staple” Series. In each segment, Jeff Staple, Founder and Creative Director of Staple Design &

Luke Monaghan : A$AP Rocky : A$VP

· Leave a comment

“First Time I ever met rocky, he was a kid with a perm and a pony tale, I was like who the f**K is this”. Harlem born Rakim Mayers, a.k.a A$AP Rocky, collaborates with British director Luke Monaghan in this

Greg Brunkalla : Danny Brown : Grown Up

· Leave a comment

“Rushing back then we thought we growed up. Rushing at a kid just to be grown up”. Skinny jeans, asymmertrical haircut, missing teeth and a chihauhau voice that distinguishes him from his peers as much as his dress – Danny

I Owe Youth : The Third X James Quaintance

· 1 Comment

“My name is James Quaintance, and I’ll live and die devoted to this. It’s my lifestyle, it’s what I do, it’s who I am.” Alignment, attitude and the archetype James Quaintance : It’s all about brand alignment nowadays; encompassing an

Rob Chiu : Once, When We Were Young

· Leave a comment

“7 billion people… scanning the sky. Waiting. Watching. As the stars fall around us. And we lived every day… like it was our last.” Rob Chiu a.k.a “The Ronin” doesn’t do light-hearted filmmaking. From the resignation of love in ‘The

Kahlil Joseph : Flying Lotus : Until The Quiet Comes

· Leave a comment

“Perhaps further illustrations of the fates that govern us, the life within that environment and those mystical moments worth marveling.” Somewhere between that place where dreams and nightmares exist as one, there can be found those mesmerising moments that are

The Imposter

· Leave a comment

“The intention, the act and the outcome are all the same, deplorable and improbable, deceptive and delightful. The Imposter documents and manipulates with equal efficiency.” In San Antonio, Texas, from a pay phone only a mile or so away from

Ryan McGinley : Sigur Rós : Varúð

· Leave a comment

“Often described as the child-father of the Tumblr/ Flickr community, he has now released his take on the Sigur Rós track Varúð,” From hordes of shameless youths frolicking in the woods to a naked and teary-eyed, dancing Shia Labeouf, the

Tomas Leach : In No Great Hurry

· Leave a comment

The images below were photographed by a man who paints. His oeuvre of abstract shots were stylistic, painterly pictures of beauty, and influenced largely by his skills as a painter. A documentary is now being made about him called In

Sean Dunne : Oxyana

· Leave a comment

A repeat prescription for a Sean Dunne Documentary OxyContin is not just a highly addictive opiate most similar in chemical strand to the street drug commonly known as heroin but is also part of the current working title of Documentary