“This film is in sign language. There are no subtitles and no voice-over. Because for love and hatred, you don’t need translation.” ... More

The Tribe

Film by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy

The Tribe

Film by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy

“This film is in sign language. There are no subtitles and no voice-over. Because for love and hatred, you don’t need translation.”

Ukrainian director and screenwriter Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy set out to create a modern day silent film, and succeeded by staging a world where words no longer matter. Unrelenting ambient noise and Slaboshpytskiy’s long, continuous shots frame the brutal realism of The Tribe and it’s story of prostitution, gangs and crime at a deaf boarding school. With a cast of deaf actors, most newcomers, Slaboshpytskiy spent several years in pre-production, over six months filming, a meticulous 7-10 days of rehearsal per scene, and miraculously just one hour editing the film. The Tribe has won wide acclaim, including the International Critics’ Week Award at Cannes 2014, and could not be more timely as a subcultural drama informing contemporary speculation on Ukranian youth culture and political tension.

Look out for a feature with lead actor Yana Novikova in Issue 5.

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Winner of both the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at this year’s Sundance, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl ... More

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Film by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Film by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Winner of both the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at this year’s Sundance, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rajon, former assistant to Scorsese whose repertoire includes American Horror Story and Glee. Based on a loosely autobiographical novel written and adapted by screenwriter Jesse Andrews, Me and Early and the Dying Girl deftly navigates the pitfalls of its own plot – a “doomed friendship” between the protagonist Greg (Thomas Mann) and his new friend Rachel (Olivia Cooke), recently diagnosed with Leukemia. Thomas and Earl (R.J. Cyler) are high school film geeks who construct dopey movies at home and are compelled to make one for their sick friend. Self-referential and classically angsty, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl nods to many film greats while setting the stage for bright new talent.

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Perth trio Methyl Ethyl debuts their first LP, Oh Inhuman Spectacle, following a string of experimental pop releases throughout the past two ... More

Methyl Ethel

Album “Oh Inhuman Spectacle”

Methyl Ethel

Album “Oh Inhuman Spectacle”

Perth trio Methyl Ethyl debuts their first LP, Oh Inhuman Spectacle, following a string of experimental pop releases throughout the past two years (Teeth, Guts and Rogues). The band is the expanded solo project of Jake Webb, previously of Australian outfits Sugarpuss, Rabbit Island and Grace Woodroofe, filled out with musicians Chris Wright and Thom Stewart. Oh Inhuman Spectacle began evolving years ago in various bedrooms, friends’ studios and a muggy storefront inhabited by Webb for a time. It finally emerges as a showcase for Webb’s gentle, androgynous vocals, underpinned by bass lines and upheld by ambient synth and provocative guitar melodies.

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“Before The World Was Big” is the first full-length LP offering of Los Angeles’s rising indie rock outfit, Girlpool. Duo Harmony Tividad ... More

Girlpool

Album “Before The World Was Big”

Girlpool

Album “Before The World Was Big”

“Before The World Was Big” is the first full-length LP offering of Los Angeles’s rising indie rock outfit, Girlpool. Duo Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker recorded the 10 tracks on BTWWB at the end of 2014 after relocating to Philadelphia. The album is produced by Kyle Gilbride of Swearin’ (Waxahatchee, Quarterbacks) and continues the topics of “growth, friendship, and interaction between identity and environment” begun on on Girlpool’s 2014 self-titled EP.

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Hedi Slimane poster boy and frontman of the indie hit band Girls, Christopher Owens has released his third solo album. “Chrissybaby Forever” ... More

Christopher Owens

Album “Chrissybaby Forever”

Christopher Owens

Album “Chrissybaby Forever”

Hedi Slimane poster boy and frontman of the indie hit band Girls, Christopher Owens has released his third solo album. “Chrissybaby Forever” is the first album Owens has recorded alone, with the engineering help of a friend, since Girls’ debut album, “Album”, in 2009. Owens has also released a music video for the album track “To Take Care of Myself” which he directed himself.

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Celebrating the May 28 premiere of NBC’s “Aquarius” (a new series about Charles Manson, his devoted young followers, and the detective who ... More

Preview: Emma Dumont

Fashion Shoot

Preview: Emma Dumont

Fashion Shoot

 

Celebrating the May 28 premiere of NBC’s “Aquarius” (a new series about Charles Manson, his devoted young followers, and the detective who sets out to solve the case), here is a preview of our own Manson Family-themed fashion shoot with co-star Emma Dumont.

Images by Jan-Willem Dikkers
Stylist: Lisa Madonna
Make Up: Anthony Merante / Celestine
Hair: Aaron Light / Celestine

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Kristian Matsson, better known as The Tallest Man on Earth, prefers to play each instrument himself, while occasionally drawing from outside talent, ... More

The Tallest Man on Earth

Album “Dark Bird Is Home”

The Tallest Man on Earth

Album “Dark Bird Is Home”

Kristian Matsson, better known as The Tallest Man on Earth, prefers to play each instrument himself, while occasionally drawing from outside talent, such as vocals and strings from Bon Iver’s Mike Noyce. “Dark Bird Is Home”, Matsson’s new album via Dead Oceans, is invigoratingly direct and has the undeniable playfulness of a tradesman at ease with his tools. It is his second studio album following 2012’s “There’s No Leaving Now” which initiated an era of refined production for The Tallest Man on Earth’s well-loved, lonesome sound. Mattson’s effortlessness never ceases to astonish as it pioneers even further into well-traveled territories. For longtime fans, the music and lyrics of “Dark Bird Is Home” is a therapy of sorts, offering new comments on comforting themes.

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Ten years after the acclaimed Looking At Los Angeles, Metropolis offers yet another unparalleled photo book of Los Angeles. Both Sides of ... More

Both Sides of Sunset

Photographing Los Angeles

Both Sides of Sunset

Photographing Los Angeles

Ten years after the acclaimed Looking At Los Angeles, Metropolis offers yet another unparalleled photo book of Los Angeles. Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles combines both reputed photographers such as Bruce Davidson, Lee Friedlander, Daido Moriyama, Julius Shulman and Garry Winogrand with contemporary artists like Matthew Brandt, Katy Grannan, Alex Israel, Lise Sarfati and Ed Templeton. The compilation offers yet another rich perspective on the intricacy and easiness of Los Angeles, its surplus and simplicity, and the layers of terrain, architecture and natives.

Published by Metropolis

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For over forty years, Marilyn Minter has compiled an image vocabulary of feminism and celebrity culture. Her hyper-realistic photographs reconstruct and focus ... More

Pretty/Dirty

Book by Marilyn Minter

Pretty/Dirty

Marilyn Minter Retrospective

For over forty years, Marilyn Minter has compiled an image vocabulary of feminism and celebrity culture. Her hyper-realistic photographs reconstruct and focus on the gritty undertones of modern sensuality and the aesthetics of fashion advertisements. Now a cult artist, Minter has exhibited in prominent art galleries worldwide and left her stamp on well-known brands, e.g. her 2008 collaboration with Supreme. Pretty/Dirty accompanies her first major retrospective at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston this year. Including essays and texts by artists and authors, such as K8 Hardy, Richard Hell and Eileen Myles, Pretty/Dirty encapsulates Minter’s ongoing discourse and its shared interpretation by today’s art community.

A particular shoot with model Devon Aoki by Marilyn for Versace Magazine (produced by Issue, Inc. and creative director Jan-Willem Dikkers) marked a pivotal point in her career. It was her initiation into a whole new dialogue of glamour and fashion, and there was no turning back.

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