According to Brontis Jodorowsky, the eldest son of avant-garde filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, cinema is in a state of flux. “I think we are in a moment of mutation where we are still on the industrial thing where people are getting tired of fattening movies. Their heads are getting fat from…
In person, Edgar Ramirez has a soft but solemn quality. Bathed in the sunlight shining into the top floor suite of the Soho Beach House in Miami Beach one recent afternoon, his eyes are an iridescent gray. A well-manicured beard of stubble coats his baby-cheeked face, framed by a thick,…
Matt & Kim at Fillmore Miami Beach December 15
A lucky few filled up the half-empty Colony Theater on Lincoln Road for the world premiere of Paris-based street artist Invader’s documentary Art4Space last night and met the mysterious artist/director in the flesh. Jaie Laplante, Executive Director at the Miami International Film Festival, introduced the film by the Paris-based artist who…
What band suffers an illness, cancels a show, promises a make-up date, but never follows through? Most all of them. But not Matt & Kim. After having to nix a Fillmore Miami Beach gig a few months ago because singer-keyboardist Matt lost his voice while on tour, this perky Brooklyn-based…
The anonymous artist Invader, known for his street art of mosaic tiles inspired by characters from video gaming’s primitive 8-bit years of the late ’70s, placed one of his tiled creations literally up in space earlier this year, using a high-tech weather balloon. He has made a 45-minute movie documenting…
“Will you mention my mom?” asks the 6-foot-and-1-inch tall Asif Farooq with a broad smile. He wears a black baseball cap on the back of his head, the lip pointing skyward at an angle, adding even more height to his massive build. Farooq, 33, exudes a playful energy, which belies…
As Art Basel looms for the 10th year in Miami Beach, WLRN will air an hour-long documentary on its influence on the Miami art scene. Through the eyes of several local artists and art scene movers and shakers, Rising Tide: A Story of Miami Artists presents a brisk, hour-long overview…
Speaking to Eugene Jarecki is like having a web of thoughts coming at you a mile a minute. Considering the levels of analysis in his films like Why We Fight and his most recent documentary, The House I Live In, about the War on Drugs (both Grand Jury Prize winners…
When you chat with 71-year-old cult director Paul Morrissey, do not expect him to hold back on telling you what he likes and, well, what he doesn’t. To say the man has strong opinions would be an understatement.”I love Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, but not Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin…
Temper Trap at Grand Central October 21
Not many artists produce work that can elicit as profound a smile from viewers like the work of Wayne White. In an early scene of the long-in-the-works documentary, Beauty is Embarrassing, White holds court on an auditorium stage presenting a slideshow of his “Word Paintings.” He paints words in massive…
Michael Gira and Swans at Respectable Street October 17
Temper Trap has such a “Sweet Disposition.” Casual music listeners probably only know snippets of that song from television ads for Chrysler and Diet Coke. Or TV dramas like One Tree Hill and 90210. Or the soundtrack to their spinning class. But an appearance in quirky 2009 rom-com (500) Days…
Juan Carlos Zaldivar, “Shift” (Film Still)The 14th installment of Optic Nerve at the Museum of Contemporary Art proved an artist can achieve some mighty moments in the moving picture with less than five minutes to work with. The hour-long series of short films included 16 works by video artists from…
Tomorrow night, the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami will once again host Optic Nerve, a film festival of inventive short films produced by up-and-coming artists. A total of 16 films were chosen by experts in the local film and art world out of 271 submissions sent from across…
It’s last night, and Anthony Spinello is sanding down walls in his new gallery space, dealing with what he calls some “finishing touches.” But all the bare, white space and even debris of renovation still laying about seems to imply a long way to go before a gallery opening only…
There’s a brilliant duality in the large pop art paintings of GG, also known as Gabriel Gimenez. On the surface, he might seem obsessed with bright, solid colors and cartoon imagery featuring a squiggly-mouthed character with black asymmetrical circles for eyes, whom he calls Fado. But notice the margins and…
There’s a brilliant duality in the large pop art paintings of GG (Gabriel Gimenez). On the surface he might seem obsessed with bright, solid colors and cartoon imagery featuring a squiggly mouthed character with black asymmetrical circles for eyes, who he calls Fado. But notice the margins and you’ll see…
There’s something weird going on in Greece. No, we’re not referring to its people’s decision to vote for austerity measures after overstretching the EU’s credit. We’re talking about the country’s cinema. For a country known as a source of theatrical drama, several filmmakers are breaking the rules of the art…
There’s something weird going on in Greece. No, we’re not referring to its people’s decision to vote for austerity measures after overstretching the EU’s credit. We’re talking about the country’s cinema. For a country known as a source of theatrical drama, several filmmakers are breaking the rules of the art…
Though a giant UFO hovers over most of the action in Nacho Vigalondo’s new film Extraterrestrial, the Spanish director, who first made a name for himself with the twisted time travel thriller Timecrimes in 2007, admits he has little interest in flying saucers. “I’m not interested in UFOlogy,” he says…
