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Mike Aho’s Lonely Life

By Tara Kenny | January 20th, 2012 in Talks | Locale:

Musician, video director and artist Mike Aho has conjured up a ghost like creature, cryogenically frozen sometime in the 80′s with the hope of being brought back to life by science, and now stuck somewhere in the vortex between imagination and reality, in this Kickstart, teaser video.

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David Bailey Takes Manhattan

By Samantha Cordingley | January 20th, 2012 in Talks | Locale: ,

John McKay talks about his new film We’ll Take Manhattan, a tribute to legendary photographer David Bailey and his muse Jean Shrimpton

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We Heart VHS Forever

By Nerida Little | January 18th, 2012 in Talks | Locale:

Three filmmakers from Austin, Texas bring back the good old days of VHS schlock horror in a publicly funded documentary.

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4,748 Self-Portraits And Counting

By Lauren Shipman | January 18th, 2012 in Talks | Locale:

Canadian photographer Jeff Harris has been keeping a self-portrait photographic diary for thirteen years. Time Magazine thought his diary was worth looking at and so do we.

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Ben Sherman Presents: Conversations In Modernism

By Samantha Cordingley | January 17th, 2012 in Talks | Locale:

Ben Sherman presents Conversations in Modernism, a series of interactions between London creatives who talk on life ambition, the meaning of creativity and the definition of Modernism.

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Let’s Talk About Wild Things

By Lauren Shipman | January 11th, 2012 in Talks | Locale:

Maurice Sendak is the kind of guy to say ‘f#*ck you’ to the boss. His books regularly appear on the American Library Association’s list of frequently challenged and banned books. He has a lovely looking German Shepard who sleeps on the rug in his study and oh, just in case you were wondering, he’s not a whore. His words, not ours.

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Grassroots Suits

By Nerida Little | January 10th, 2012 in Talks | Locale:

This short film explores the slowly dying industry of handmade clothing manufacturers in Brooklyn.

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Inside Courtney’s Closet

By Genevieve Day | January 9th, 2012 in Talks

In Stylelist’s video “Behind the Clothes”, Hollywood’s favourite off-the-rails songstress, Courtney Love, invites us inside her closet.

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They’re Making a Scene: Improv Everywhere Documentary

By Angela McCormack | December 23rd, 2011 in Talks | Locale:

Notorious pranksters at Improv Everywhere are making a documentary- “…out to prove that a prank doesn’t have to involve humiliation or embarrassment; it can simply be about making someone laugh, smile, or stop to notice the world around them.”

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Mr Eatock’s Felt-Tip Prints

By Lauren Shipman | December 22nd, 2011 in Talks | Locale:

What do you get when you upend a full set of Panatone pens and place an A1 sheet of 200gsm smooth, uncoated white paper on top of the exposed nibs? London based artist Daniel Eatock’s Felt-tip Prints, of course.

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