Rolling grey clouds that mirror placid waves, shadows that dance and tail by moonlight. Such imagery takes effect in our minds when serenaded by the beguiling melodies of Aspidistrafly. Playing a flickeringly filmic mixture of ambient folk with gossamer-like vocal harmonies, guitar-based drones wrap listeners in a delicate blanket of lo-fi haziness. April’s beguiling visions […]

Animated in monochrome, Zi Xi led the way to a coffee place. “It’s quite good,” she chirped while we followed her and took our seats. Her eyes widened as she opened her sketchbook and her pen – it clicked, like our shutter did earlier in the day whilst photographing – there was an underlining commonality […]

Gondry is considered by many to be amongst the most imaginative of contemporary filmmakers. Having directed unanimous favorites like ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ and ‘Science of Sleep’, he weaves whimsy into the humdrum of the everyday. His latest piece focuses on the nature of unconditional love- where Amelie‘s Audrey Tautou co-stars with Romain Duris […]

Sometimes a filmmaker slides into a stereotype, their works become categorised and so much less romanticised. Takeshi Miike‘s film “Hara Kiri”, is an attempt to break a mould his films have been cast in. The man behind “13 Assassins”, minimises the blood and focuses on visual narrative in an overtly subtle story about love and […]

Born in 1989, Hungarian photographer/art director Mate Moro has a portfolio full of intriguing projects. Stark and approximating the clinical, he manages a good mix between the romantic, absurd and morbidly fascinating. Possessing an expert eye for composition, Moro’s pictures reflect the relationship between his subjects and the space around them. Often convoluted and shaped like […]

We’ve all fooled around with laserpointers at some point in time, from power point presentations to vexing a kitty cat. United Visual Artists (UVA) are an art and design practice based in London, they bring complexities of light and well, ‘laser pointers’ to a whole new level. Creating work that’s at the intersection of sculpture, […]