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Wes Hurley Director Interview: Potato Dreams of America Brings Russia to Seattle
Seattle writer and director Wes Hurley’s feature debut, Potato Dreams, is at once a colorful pastiche of past memories and an unconventional queer coming-of-age tale. Premiering at SXSW 2021, the film...
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Channeling to Heal Grief & Loss: Phyllis Akinyi Live Performance Review
By the time I enter the spacious warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Danish-Kenyan movement artist Phyllis Akinyi has already begun her performance. I hear her before I see her. A repeating loop plays...
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Night Heron –“Dreamz” Music Video (Interview w/ Musician & Creative Team)
Shot on a secret location in Colima, Mexico, the music video for “Dreamz” by Portland band Night Heron draws inspiration from the natural world to create a lush and colorful dreamscape. Citing...
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Shiva Baby Film Review: A Comedy to Combine Sorrow & Sex Work
Have you wondered what Curb Your Enthusiasm would look like from the perspective of a 20-something-year-old girl? No, I’m not talking about Eighty-Sixed, the short webseries from 2017, by Larry...
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Nite Jewel Interview: When There is No Sun, One Can Still Find the Light
Ramona Gonzalez, better known to many by the moniker Nite Jewel, hasn’t always allowed the public into her private life. The influential Los Angeles-based electronic pop musician may have been...
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Dos Santos Band Interview: City of Mirrors Dynamically Reflects U.S. Latin...
On City of Mirrors, the fourth full-length record from Chicago’s Dos Santos, the five-piece band once again showcases their musical expertise by presenting a rich, multicultural melting pot of sounds....
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Beans Film Review: A Mohawk Girl Comes of Age During the 1990 Oka Crisis
Early on in Beans— a coming-of-age film written and directed by Quebec-based Mohawk filmmaker Tracey Deer — a teenage girl and her mom shimmy under their seatbelts and sing along to Snap!’s “The...
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Hien Interview: A Former Vietnamese Hungarian Pop Star Charts Her Own Path
Though Vietnamese Hungarian singer Hien has been making music professionally since she was 14, her late 2021 EP, Bloom, is a celebration of new beginnings and reinvention. After achieving great...
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Marcelo Gomes Interview: Waiting for the Carnival Documentary Paints a...
Waiting for the Carnival (2019), an engrossing documentary by Brazilian filmmaker Marcelo Gomes, opens with a swath of billboards set against a stark landscape. Showcasing models in skin-tight blue...
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Tzewoon Chan Interview: Blue Island 憂鬱之島 Connects Decades of Counterculture...
When documentary filmmaker Tzewoon Chan began making his genre-bending film Blue Island 憂鬱之島 (2022) in 2017, Hong Kong was between social movements. Coming out of a previous project, Yellowing (2016),...
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Nana Mensah Interview: Queen of Glory Expertly Blends Humor and Pathos in a...
When Sarah, a no-nonsense molecular biologist at Columbia University, receives a call informing her of her mother’s death, her default response is denial. “There must be some sort of mistake,” she...
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Terence Nance Interview: The Terence Etc. Album V O R T E X is a...
Terence Nance and I leapfrog through time and space. Numerous missed connections and mutual schedule misalignments occur until — two weeks later — we finally manage to get on the phone to speak about...
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Fern Naomi Renville & Howie Seago Film Interview: Deaf and Native Creators...
A project unlike any other, Changer: A Hand Telling, is a shapeshifter which has taken on many forms. First conceptualized by Native artists Fern Naomi Renville (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) and Roger...
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Khu.éex’ Band Interview: Uplifting Alaska Native Culture with Genre-Defying...
Khu.éex’ (pronounced koo-eek; “potlatch” in Tlingit) is a 10-piece intergenerational band whose musical style is fluid, with improvisational prowess that allows them to span genres as wide-ranging as...
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Ruhail Qaisar Interview: Haunting Musical Compositions Capture Trauma and...
Self-taught experimental musician and interdisciplinary artist, Ruhail Qaisar (Ladakhi), has recently presented Fatima, a haunting debut full-length album released on Aisha Devi’s label imprint, Danse...
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True/False Film Fest 2023 Film Picks: Immigration, Experimentation,...
With 28,900 butts in seats for 33 feature films and 25 shorts, the 20th edition of True/False celebrated independent non-fiction filmmaking from March 2th to 5th, 2023, in Columbia, Missouri. Some of...
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What Shall We Do With These Buildings? Interview: Interrogating Soviet...
In the half-hour experimental documentary, What Shall We Do With These Buildings? (2022), two men dance atop giant pink squares, climbing on and hanging from them like monkey bars. Viewers may be...
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Omar Ahmad Interview: Inheritance Explores Palestinian American Identity with...
INHERITANCE: a complex word that encompasses a vast array of associations, feelings, memories, thoughts, cultures, and ways of being in the world. With his debut self-titled record of the same name,...
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Emily Zimmerman Curator Interview: Speaking in a Language of Embodied Space
The exhibition Songs for Ritual and Remembrance is filled with music. Installation view, Songs for Ritual and Remembrance, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. (Credit: Emily Pothast) Upon...
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Ash León Musician Interview: Interplanetary Hip-Hop for Film Nerds
Upon first blush, one might pigeonhole Memphis-based artist Ashely Santinac, aka Ash León, as a rapper — but while they do rap, they find the label to be far too limiting. They are a self-described...
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