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“The longest-running, weirdest, loneliest enigma is popular music is a guy from Texas who calls himself Jandek.” (Dougals Wolk, Providence Phoenix) 25 years, 35 albums and not a single live show or public appearance. The documentary film Jandek on Corwood definitively explores the most intriguing mystery in modern music. Featuring revealing interviews, evocative imagery and […] |
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
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A surprisingly fascinating feature-length documentary about the sans-serif typeface known as Helvetica, created in Switzerland in 1957 and now found sprawled across street signs, form letters, ads, storefronts–you name it. Directed by Gary Hustwit, the film views Helvetica as “an emblem of the machine age, a harbinger of globalization and an ally of modern art’s […] |
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Urgh: A Music War
*Staff Picks*
Urgh A Music War is all about the New Wave, Punk Rock sound that shook the 1980’s, with live performances of Gary Numan, Klaus Nomi, The Cramps,The GoGos, DEVO, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, Athletico Spizz 80, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Echo and the Bunnyman, Magazine, Wall of Voodoo, etc. |
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Interview with world renown cult director Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man) . This interview covers how and when he started creating his own world of cinema, exactly the way he thought it should look. He is also an accomplished actor appearing in many films directed by other directors, such as Takashi Miike (Ichi the […] |
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5 Films about Christo & Jeanne Claude chronicles a 30-year collaboration between acclaimed documentary filmmakers Albert and his late brother David Maysles (Grey Gardens, Salesman, Gimme Shelter), and the internationally renowned environmental artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The Maysles Brothers, along with such frequent co-filmmakers as Charlotte Zwerin and Susan Froemke, have captured the artists’ enduring […] |
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How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel and traditional Japanese rituals to create his latest art project? Barney plowed the waters off the coast of Nagasaki to film his massive endeavor, Drawing Restraint 9. The documentary Matthew Barney: No Restraint journeys to Japan with Barney and […] |
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A French Canadian “documentary” on the disappearance of Victor Pellerin that keeps viewers guessing as to whether or not this supposed young painter/star of the Montreal art scene actually existed. Also known as Rechercher Victor Pellerin, this engrossing, witty, hard to categorize piece of verite trickery might not provide answers, but you’ll find what actual […] |
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Two filmmakers try to infiltrate an underground bicycle club. Driven by anti-materialism and a belief that the impending apocalypse will render cars useless and leave bicycles in power, Black Label Bike Club (BLBC) battles mainstream consumer culture and rival gangs for its vision of a better tomorrow. Pulling threads from Critical Mass and the wider […] |