Cinéma vérité, interviews, archival footage and performances from an insightful week spent with Jimmy Lee Lindsey, Jr., better known as Jay Reatard. This is Better Than Something: Jay Reatard, a stunning feature length documentary about the late garage-punk icon directed by Ian Markiewicz and Alex Hammond. Watch the trailer and read our interview with the filmmakers here. (via Better Than Something: Interview with Ian Markiewicz and Alex Hammond)
Remembering Jeff Buckley. Fall in Light. An hour long documentary directed by Don Kent in 1999. Watch it here.
Tapes’n’Tales. Let the music ease the talking. Today, American artist John Casey guides us on a fascinating artistic pilgrimage through music. A further exploratory approach to his open-ended narrative drawings and sculptures. Head over here to check it out (via Tapes’n’Tales: JOHN CASEY)
Streetwise (1984) is a feature-length documentary directed by Martin Bell which narrates the lives of homeless teenagers on the streets of Seattle. Watch it here.
“The Flames That Kiss Me Dead” is the feeling of positive tension, a passion rising up, the danger of your last day as a caterpillar. It’s our may mixtape (via The Flames That Kiss Me Dead: A Mixtape). Cover Art by Gianfranco Bonadies.
Late as usual, but we start the week with a mammoth review of a month in records. And if we missed something, that’s what the comment section is for. Enjoy! (via A MONTH IN RECORDS: March 2012)
Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds, a short documentary by filmmaker Stewart Copeland about Roger Smith: a man who can make anything out of a peach seed. Watch it here.
Overlook by French photographer Alain Delorme will be on view from May 19 through June 23, 2012 at Gallery Magda Danysz, Shanghai
Chuck Close, Big Self-Portrait, acrylic on canvas, 1968
