ELECTROMA is the directorial feature film debut from the Frenchmen behind the robotic masks of Daft Punk: Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. The film follows the two robots on their mission to become human.The two robots come acros...
Latest movie of director Hannes Stöhr will premiere on August 8 at Locarno Film Festival"Berlin Calling" tells the story of electronic musician Martin, who tours the clubs under the name of DJ Icarus. Shortly before his big record release, one of...
This up and coming cinematic release seems to have everyone in a hot dizzy spell. An all-time favourite amongst children, Where The Wild Things Are originally written by Maurice Sendak has now been fully realised into a grown up film by Spike Jon...
Limp Bizkit vocalist Fred Durst is better known for ridiculous antics and juvenile behavior than artistic integrity and directorial prowess. Yet strangely enough, Durst’s sophomore film The Education of Charlie Banks, is one of my personal favour...
French artist and one half of Daft Punk Thomas Banglater has been identified as the composer for Gaspar Noé’s newest film Enter The Void, which is premiering at Cannes later this month. After most of the dance world was found convulsing from the...
Lewis Carroll classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has now been given the deluxe Tim Burton treatment, as a set of recently released – and utterly gorgeous – publicity stills prove. The film, pegged for a release date of March 5, 2010, is loo...
Electronic Beats Classics is proud to present a visionary new music experiment by the highly influential Swiss duo Yello, with Touch Yello: a virtual concert. The cornerstone of the evening in Berlin will be the world premiere of this 50-minute m...
This spring Robert Hood plans to step out of the shadows with a sci-fi inspired album released via his own M-Plant records. Drawing almost all of his inspiration from one of his favourite films, 1971 cult classic The Omega Man, Hood has effective...
“A male robot librarian lives a solitary and methodical life devoid of creativity, joy and passion, until he meets an adventurous and free spirited female robot…” Sounds familiar? Fabulous movie director Spike Jonze, known for stunning films like...
"Why can’t you show everything?" In his photographs, acclaimed artist Larry Clark portrays the whole spectrum of controversy, running the gauntlet from sexual fantasies of adolescents to the local drug scene of his hometown Tulsa. “Kids”, his fir...
Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and documentary film-maker who calls herself a Scottish Calvinist Muslim. She grew up in Glasgow, has worked for many years in India and now lives between Bombay, London and Wales. Her collections of poems include...
As one of the founding members of THE POLICE, Stewart Armstrong Copeland climbed to the peaks of the music business. Since the break-up in 1986, the former rock star from Virginia has worked as an acclaimed composer for movies like ‘Nine 1/2 Week...
Although street trends are normally the mainstream consequence of pleasure and distraction, in some cities they represent the mere effort to survive. First-time film maker Jason Kohn discusses these issues in his award-winning documentary “Mana B...
Almost 30 years ago, Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn moved to London. His decision was inspired by the music of a new band called Joy Division, whose gloomy post-punk sound just started to conquer the nightlife of the British capital. In the fol...
“Listening to Joy Division every day for six months is pretty fun. Dancing around my living room.” Sam, you were born basically the year Ian Curtis killed himself. Did Joy Division mean anything to you when you were younger?Well, they do now bu...
Of course, everyone’s familiar with the big names – Cannes, Venice, Berlinale – but what’s behind these trademarks, hardly anybody knows. Reason enough to take a closer look and answer the question of why three of the most important festivals are...