While Terrence Malick happily toils away on year five of editing his Biblical epic The Way of the Wind, he’s found a number of artistic diversions in recent years. The latest is an epic-looking interactive exhibit that finds him reuniting with his Knight of Cups, Song of Song, and Voyage of Time collaborator Cate Blanchett, while also boasting contributions from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.
Premiering at Australia’s Acmi and what looks to be an expanded version of the Tribeca premiere Evolver, Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of Nature “illuminates the hidden forces surrounding us, revealing the sublime through sensory journeys beyond our everyday perception. From the roots of a majestic Amazonian tree to the unseen branches of the body and the birth of galaxies, this hypnotic, immersive experience explores the rhythm that cultivates and connects all life – breath.”
Featuring five major digital artworks, the experience features “guided meditation, large-scale screen works and interactive experiences,...
Premiering at Australia’s Acmi and what looks to be an expanded version of the Tribeca premiere Evolver, Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of Nature “illuminates the hidden forces surrounding us, revealing the sublime through sensory journeys beyond our everyday perception. From the roots of a majestic Amazonian tree to the unseen branches of the body and the birth of galaxies, this hypnotic, immersive experience explores the rhythm that cultivates and connects all life – breath.”
Featuring five major digital artworks, the experience features “guided meditation, large-scale screen works and interactive experiences,...
- 9/7/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Tribeca Film Festival wrapped up its competition Thursday by announcing awards for “Good Girl Jane,” “January (Janvaris)” and “The Cave of Adullam,” among other films.
Sarah Elizabeth Mintz’ “Good Girl Jane,” about a lonely, bullied high schooler lured into the hard-partying scene by a charming bad boy, took home the Founders’ Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature. Its star, Rain Spencer (“The Summer I Turned Pretty) also picked up the award for Best Performance in a U.S. narrative film.
The top prize for international narrative feature went to Latvian coming-of-age drama “January (Janvaris),” written and directed by Viesturs Kairiss. The film follows an aspiring filmmaker who tries to figure out who he is amidst the struggle for Latvian independence.
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Sarah Elizabeth Mintz’ “Good Girl Jane,” about a lonely, bullied high schooler lured into the hard-partying scene by a charming bad boy, took home the Founders’ Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature. Its star, Rain Spencer (“The Summer I Turned Pretty) also picked up the award for Best Performance in a U.S. narrative film.
The top prize for international narrative feature went to Latvian coming-of-age drama “January (Janvaris),” written and directed by Viesturs Kairiss. The film follows an aspiring filmmaker who tries to figure out who he is amidst the struggle for Latvian independence.
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- 6/16/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Star signs on as an exec producer alongside Terrence Mallick and Edward R. Pressman.
Cate Blanchett is narrating virtual-reality project Evolver and has signed on as an executive producer alongside Terrence Malick and Edward R. Pressman.
Billed as a free-roaming, immersive journey through the breathing body, Evolver is world premiering in competition at the Tribeca Immersive programme at the 2022 Tribeca Festival where it will be presented at 120 Broadway from June 9-19.
The VR experience drops audiences inside the human body, following the flow of oxygen from first intake of breath.
Dirty Films’ Cate Blanchett, Coco Francini and Andrew Upton have boarded Evolver as executive producers.
Cate Blanchett is narrating virtual-reality project Evolver and has signed on as an executive producer alongside Terrence Malick and Edward R. Pressman.
Billed as a free-roaming, immersive journey through the breathing body, Evolver is world premiering in competition at the Tribeca Immersive programme at the 2022 Tribeca Festival where it will be presented at 120 Broadway from June 9-19.
The VR experience drops audiences inside the human body, following the flow of oxygen from first intake of breath.
Dirty Films’ Cate Blanchett, Coco Francini and Andrew Upton have boarded Evolver as executive producers.
- 5/20/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Jewish Story Partners, a new Los Angeles-based film foundation with initial funding from Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw’s Righteous Persons Foundation, named its first round of grantees Wednesday including projects from Joey Soloway (Transparent), Maxim Pozdorovkin (Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, Our New President) and Luke Lorentzen (Midnight Family).
Jsp awarded a total of $225,000 to ten U.S. documentary projects. The selections jury included Lou Cove, founder of Jewish arts funding collaborative Canvas; documentary film producer Julie Goldman, and Kim Yutani, Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival.
“We are honored to support this bold and imaginative group of filmmakers and their projects,” the trio said in a joint statement. “These excellent films reflect a broad range of Jewish experiences, from the spiritual and artistic to the cultural and political.”
Jsp is led by Roberta Grossman, who serves as Producing Director, and veteran film festival programmer, former Sundance Catalyst director,...
Jsp awarded a total of $225,000 to ten U.S. documentary projects. The selections jury included Lou Cove, founder of Jewish arts funding collaborative Canvas; documentary film producer Julie Goldman, and Kim Yutani, Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival.
“We are honored to support this bold and imaginative group of filmmakers and their projects,” the trio said in a joint statement. “These excellent films reflect a broad range of Jewish experiences, from the spiritual and artistic to the cultural and political.”
Jsp is led by Roberta Grossman, who serves as Producing Director, and veteran film festival programmer, former Sundance Catalyst director,...
- 4/28/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Buffy Sainte-Marie and David Byrne are among the artists who will appear during the upcoming Northern New Mexico festival Virtual LemonAid, which will stream for free on May 8th at 10 p.m. Et via Instagram TV, Facebook Live, Youtube Live, with additional channels to be announced on the event website. The digital arts festival will benefit All Together Now New Mexico Fund and Santa Fe County Connect Fund. Both funds will use the proceeds to address the immediate needs of New Mexicans during the Covid-19 crisis.
Hosted by the inaugural...
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- 5/7/2020
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Joel and Ethan Coen are back in theaters and on Netflix this year with their acclaimed Western anthology film “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” but that’s not the only reason 2018 is a great one for fans of the legendary directing duo. This year marks the 20th anniversary of “The Big Lebowski,” the 1998 crime comedy turned cult classic starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, and John Turturro. Mondo is celebrating the anniversary by bringing the film’s incredible soundtrack to vinyl this month.
The Mondo “Big Lebowski” vinyl goes on sale Wednesday, December 5 (purchase a copy on the Mondo official website here) and features songs by Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Nina Simone, The Gipsy Kings, and Townes Van Zandt, among others. The most iconic song from the film, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition’s “Just Dropped In,” is included as well. The package features all new artwork by Paul Mann.
The Mondo “Big Lebowski” vinyl goes on sale Wednesday, December 5 (purchase a copy on the Mondo official website here) and features songs by Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Nina Simone, The Gipsy Kings, and Townes Van Zandt, among others. The most iconic song from the film, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition’s “Just Dropped In,” is included as well. The package features all new artwork by Paul Mann.
- 12/3/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Since filming began all the way back in 2011, it’s been a revolving door of speculation as to what actors and musical acts will make the cut of Terrence Malick‘s Song to Song. As we’re less than 10 days away from the film hitting theaters, we’re now getting a clearer picture.
Along with Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, Rooney Mara, Natalie Portman, and Cate Blanchett, we confirmed last month that Iggy Pop, Johnny Rotten, Patti Smith, Lykke Li, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Big Freedia, Diplo, Alan Palomo of Neon Indian, Spank Rock, Dana Falconberry, Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears, and The Black Lips will all be featured in the film.
Now, Pitchfork — along with premiering a featurette — have more details. Along with the aforementioned acts all appearing in some capacity in the film, Tegan and Sara and Florence Welch will also be seen. Lykke Li has a bigger role than expected,...
Along with Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, Rooney Mara, Natalie Portman, and Cate Blanchett, we confirmed last month that Iggy Pop, Johnny Rotten, Patti Smith, Lykke Li, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Big Freedia, Diplo, Alan Palomo of Neon Indian, Spank Rock, Dana Falconberry, Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears, and The Black Lips will all be featured in the film.
Now, Pitchfork — along with premiering a featurette — have more details. Along with the aforementioned acts all appearing in some capacity in the film, Tegan and Sara and Florence Welch will also be seen. Lykke Li has a bigger role than expected,...
- 3/8/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Meredith Monk has spent 50 years producing a familiar kind of strangeness, uttering sounds you’ve never heard before but that seem to have been in the air for eons. Occasionally she sings words and phrases, more often just indeterminate shreds of language like something heard in a dream. At 72, she remains a straight-backed pixie with two-foot pigtails and precise but slightly awkward movements. Her pliable, silver-toned voice can still trip lightly off a consonant or ricochet from angry buzz to high hoot to chesty growl, or disappear into a vocal weave. Monk’s yearlong residency at Carnegie Hall made it clear how hard it is to separate her presence from her music. Other performer-composers of her generation, like Steve Reich and Philip Glass, long ago began to write scores that could fall into anyone’s hands and come out okay. She, too, has shared her skills with the members...
- 4/8/2015
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
A weekly feature in which we spotlight shining stars
The Performer | Rory Kinnear
The Show | Penny Dreadful
The Episode | “Grand Guignol”
The Airdate | June 29, 2014
The Performance | Although Penny Dreadful has dazzled us with everything from vampire attacks to demonic possessions, the series’ most resonant moments may also have been its most human. Hear Read us out. In the first season finale, Frankenstein’s monster – Caliban to his friend, singular – was shown compassion once too often by his crush, Grand Guignol starlet Maud, setting in motion a series of events that allowed Kinnear to shine a spotlight not only on the...
The Performer | Rory Kinnear
The Show | Penny Dreadful
The Episode | “Grand Guignol”
The Airdate | June 29, 2014
The Performance | Although Penny Dreadful has dazzled us with everything from vampire attacks to demonic possessions, the series’ most resonant moments may also have been its most human. Hear Read us out. In the first season finale, Frankenstein’s monster – Caliban to his friend, singular – was shown compassion once too often by his crush, Grand Guignol starlet Maud, setting in motion a series of events that allowed Kinnear to shine a spotlight not only on the...
- 7/5/2014
- TVLine.com
Yoko Ono, an icon of imagination in a variety of artistic fields, declares that "inspiration, energy and elevation"are the themes that have run through all her creative activities. Her new album, Yokokimthurston (which I reviewed for eMusic.com) is a collaboration with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore that embodies those qualities as thoroughly and provocatively as any album she's released since her classic '70s LPs.
Asked whether she finds the new album comparable to any of her previous work, Ono answers, "Maybe the first, Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band. But this time, the sound that came out was much darker, reflecting what's going on in the world now." Maybe it's the company she's keeping, maybe it's the times, but a big part of what makes Yokokimthurston like Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band is how it unleashes the unabashed, undiluted avant-garde Yoko at her most spontaneous.
Asked whether she finds the new album comparable to any of her previous work, Ono answers, "Maybe the first, Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band. But this time, the sound that came out was much darker, reflecting what's going on in the world now." Maybe it's the company she's keeping, maybe it's the times, but a big part of what makes Yokokimthurston like Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band is how it unleashes the unabashed, undiluted avant-garde Yoko at her most spontaneous.
- 10/10/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Born in 1920 in Illinois, Anna Halprin studied modern dance and later abandoned her training in favor of improvisation and other investigative movement practices. Considered one of the pioneers of postmodern dance, Halprin founded the San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop in 1955, hosting and collaborating with many of the dancers and artists who later founded the Judson Dance Theater. For decades Halprin has been at the forefront of the expressive arts healing movement and continues to teach workshops at the Tamalpa Institute in Marin County, California—an organization she founded with her daughter in 1978. celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first dance concerts at Judson Church ttracting young people, like Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, and Meredith Monk...
- 9/8/2012
- by suzon_f
- Twilight Examiner
This is the first in a brief series exploring the Ecstatic Music Festival, a two-month-long musical event pairing musicians from the contemporary classical and indie rock worlds.
Though 30-year-old composer and musician Dan Deacon studied composition at Suny Purchase, he's perhaps best known for his dance ready synth and electronic sounds and the raucous, sweaty live shows that accompany them. His official biography describes his music as "striving to take contemporary experimental composition and electronic music out of the circle of the esoteric intellectual gangs and hipster communities, placing it into the more informal 'fun time.'"
Last year, at the inaugural Ecstatic Music Festival, Deacon teamed up with the percussion quartet So Percussion, for his new piece "Ghostbuster Cook: Origin of the Riddler" resulting in a wide-ranging performance that included soda bottles, marimbas, synths and percussion. He's back for more "fun time" at this year's Ecstatic Music Festival, where...
Though 30-year-old composer and musician Dan Deacon studied composition at Suny Purchase, he's perhaps best known for his dance ready synth and electronic sounds and the raucous, sweaty live shows that accompany them. His official biography describes his music as "striving to take contemporary experimental composition and electronic music out of the circle of the esoteric intellectual gangs and hipster communities, placing it into the more informal 'fun time.'"
Last year, at the inaugural Ecstatic Music Festival, Deacon teamed up with the percussion quartet So Percussion, for his new piece "Ghostbuster Cook: Origin of the Riddler" resulting in a wide-ranging performance that included soda bottles, marimbas, synths and percussion. He's back for more "fun time" at this year's Ecstatic Music Festival, where...
- 3/16/2012
- by Amy Lee
- Huffington Post
Edmund Patrick Cahill was born January 15 1978 in New York to parents of Irish and Italian descent. He is 6' 2". His Irish father is a stockbroker and his mother is an elementary school teacher. He has one older and one younger sister. Eddie graduated from Byram Hills High School, Armonk, New York, in 1986. Other famous attendees of this school are Eyal Podell and Sean Maher. He also attended Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York and the Atlantic Theater Acting School, which is part of the Tisch School of the Arts at Nyu. When he was in kindergarten, Eddie aspired to be a farmer. His big break came in the Summer Theater Festival at Vassar College. Eddie finally dropped out of Nyu and moved to Brooklyn in pursuit of a full time acting career. He dreamt of becoming an actor after he saw Les Miserables at the tender age of 17. Says Eddie:...
- 11/8/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and one of the pioneers of the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement, died on Jan. 12. She was 91.Stewart nurtured the careers of many influential theater figures, often giving them their first exposure, including directors Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, Tom O'Horgan, and Joseph Chaikin; actor-playwright Harvey Fierstein; playwrights Sam Shepard, Charles Ludlam, Adrienne Kennedy, Taylor Mac, Lanford Wilson, and Israel Horovitz; composers Philip Glass, Elizabeth Swados, Meredith Monk, and Stephen Schwartz; and theater troupes Mabou Mines and the Talking Band. She also introduced American audiences to such European directors as Jerzy Grotowski and Andrei Serban.Stewart came to New York in the 1950s to become a fashion designer and founded La MaMa in 1961. More than 2,000 productions later, the theater, which is located at 74A E. Fourth St. in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, is still going strong. During the theater's infancy, Stewart funded it with her earnings from dress designing.
- 1/13/2011
- backstage.com
The latest crop of dance books and recordings includes the DVD of a fascinating 2009 film about Meredith Monk, as well as less-interesting books on pedagogy, technique, and career building.'Meredith Monk: Inner Voice'You don't have to be a Meredith Monk fan, or even terribly familiar with the multidisciplinary experimental artist's vast body of work, to be captivated by Babeth M. VanLoo's documentary "Meredith Monk: Inner Voice" (First Run Features, $24.95, 82 minutes). The riveting, well-structured film intersperses clips of Monk's work—musical compositions, operas, choreography, films, and theater pieces—with dialogues with the artist and interviews with her colleagues. The interviewees, always sharply and colorfully dressed, are situated in beautiful natural settings with lots of light or presented in strikingly composed indoor shots, making the documentary as aesthetically pleasing as it is intellectually enthralling.As Monk engagingly reveals the sources and inspirations behind her art, the listener begins to...
- 9/9/2010
- backstage.com
Press Release Meredith Monk – Inner Voice Brings the Iconoclastic American Performer, Singer, Filmmaker and Choreographer To Film Screens at the Dance On Camera Festival at Lincoln Center January 29, 1:30pm; Monday, February 1, 6pm Introduced by the director Babeth M. VanLoo "An admiring portrait of an individual whose calm, joyous personality makes her quite wonderful company, both at work and in conversation." - Dennis Harvey, Variety Meredith Monk is a true Renaissance artist: a composer, singer, director, choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater, films and installations. Monk first began working in New York in the mid 60’s and in 1968 founded The [...]...
- 1/23/2010
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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