A New Wave of Chinese Music Festivals: Tuborg GreenFest & Echo Park Strive to...
music art film review - REDEFINE magazine A New Wave of Chinese Music Festivals: Tuborg GreenFest & Echo Park Strive to Go “Green” Some of the biggest music festivals around the world are...
View ArticleKhruangbin – The Universe Smiles Upon You Album Review (Night Time Stories)
music art film review - REDEFINE magazine Khruangbin – The Universe Smiles Upon You Album Review (Night Time Stories) When Bonobo included Khruangbin’s “A Calf Born In Winter” on his 2013 Late Night...
View ArticleYumi Sakugawa Artist Interview: Expansion through Meditation and the Dark...
music art film review - REDEFINE magazine Yumi Sakugawa Artist Interview: Expansion through Meditation and the Dark Corners of the Mind Since its mantra-driven origins, meditation has spread around the...
View ArticleAnna Homler Musician Interview: The Mythology Behind Breadwoman
music art film review - REDEFINE magazine Anna Homler Musician Interview: The Mythology Behind Breadwoman Information can reside deep within our bones, as a layer of feeling that’s hard to define and...
View ArticleStudio Swine Artist Interview: From Plastic & Metal Reuse to High-End Art...
music art film review - REDEFINE magazine Studio Swine Artist Interview: From Plastic & Metal Reuse to High-End Art Objects I grew up in the ’80s, so my Sesame Street episodes were laden with...
View ArticleHOUSE MUSIC Performance Review: Jennie Liu & Andrew Gilbert Practice at The...
music art film review - REDEFINE magazine HOUSE MUSIC Performance Review: Jennie Liu & Andrew Gilbert Practice at The Mistake Room Backwoods folk music plays quietly as visitors enter The Mistake...
View ArticleSIFF 2016 – Seattle International Film Festival Film Previews & Selections
music art film review - REDEFINE magazine SIFF 2016 – Seattle International Film Festival Film Previews & Selections As per usual, we here at REDEFINE have done the hard work of going through SIFF...
View ArticleFrom This Day Forward & Finding Phong Comparative Documentary Film Reviews:...
music art film review - REDEFINE magazine From This Day Forward & Finding Phong Comparative Documentary Film Reviews: Seattle Transgender Film Festival 2016 All May, posters have abounded in...
View ArticleDeath Play Performance Review: Directed by Jessica Hanna & Performed by Lisa...
According to Death Play writer and performer Lisa Dring, grief, in its most violent throes, can be so consuming that one who is experiencing it can hardly feel anything at all. Dring would know. Having...
View ArticleZahyr Lauren Artist Interview: Meditations on Love, Freedom, and Protection...
“Through ALL that we have been through, and through ALL that we go through, we are still here. We are still resilient. We are still creating. We are always rebuilding and moving forward. Love, true...
View ArticleKICCC –“Wine” Music Video (Interviews w/ Musician Carson Cheng & Director...
In the cinematic music video for “Wine,” Canadian Chinese singer Carson Cheng — also known as KICCC (pronounced “kick”) — emerges from hot ashes like a phoenix and finds himself face-to-face with a...
View ArticleA Thousand Cuts of Duterte: Interview w/ Documentary Film Director Ramona Diaz
At The Atlantic Festival, a 2019 conference put on by The Atlantic, an interviewer asked Maria Ressa, CEO of the Filipino news site, Rappler, why Americans should care about the deteriorating political...
View ArticleMoroni For President Film Review: Presidential Politics of the Navajo Nation
When Moroni Benally signs the paperwork to run for Navajo Nation president, he giggles. Moroni For President, a charming documentary profile of his 2014 campaign, captures the high stakes of the race...
View ArticleRoland Dahwen Filmmaker Interview: The Intentional Ambiguity of “Borrufa”
In the directorial debut of their feature film, Borrufa, Portland-based artist, performer, and filmmaker Roland Dahwen presents a quiet portrait of the trials and tribulations faced by immigrant...
View ArticleCHAII – Lightswitch EP Music Video Series (Interview w/ Musician & Stylist)
Photograph by Abe Mora Lightswitch, the six-track EP from New Zealand-based Persian rapper, CHAII, draws upon her visual art background and comes paired with six highly-stylized music videos that span...
View ArticleHiroki Tanaka Musician Interview: Clarifying the Cycles of Life & Death...
Swathed in the unlikely comfort of warm grey tones, Toronto-based musician Hiroki Tanaka (田中博基) can be seen on the album cover for his debut solo record, Kaigo Kioku Kyoku (介護記憶曲), looking fairly...
View ArticleThrough the Night Documentary Film Review: Caregiving as Essential Work
In Through the Night, a lovely new documentary by first-time director Loira Limbal, daycare owner Nunu coaxes an anxious young boy to put aside his electronic tablet and be more present with the other...
View ArticleAlbum Covers of the Year 2020
We’ve finally made it to the bitter end of 2020, and believe it or not, human beings are still making amazing art in the midst of crisis and a pandemic. After a five-year hiatus, our Album Covers of...
View ArticleSuperb Short Films at Slamdance 2021: Top Picks in Narrative, Animation,...
Hailing itself as Slamdance Film Festival’s “largest and most accessible festival yet,” Slamdance 2021 runs virtually from February 12th through 15th, and can be accessed with an impressively cheap $10...
View ArticleThe Intuitive Dimension of Bearing Witness: Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Marion...
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the mind of the masses.” – Malcolm...
View Article