If you find yourself with nothing to do this Fourth of July weekend, you should definitely go see ‘Mala Mala’. Directed by Antonio Santini + Dan Sickles, this feature documentary explores the ups + downs of the transgender + transsexual communities in Puerto Rico. Highlighting LGBTQ activists, sex workers, + drag performers, including April Carrión from ‘RuPaul’s Drag […]
The Haunting Trailer For ‘Amy’, The Documentary On Amy Winehouse
After much hype, here’s the trailer for ‘Amy’, the documentary on the genius that was Amy Winehouse. Sure to make you get goose bumps, jerk a tear or two or both, this film follows Amy’s short life + career. Tracing back to her childhood, her international rise to fame, her troubled yet all-consuming relationship with Blake […]
‘The Artist Is Absent: A Short Film On Martin Margiela’
Making its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival, celebrating the power of anonymity, is ‘The Artist Is Absent: A Short Film On Martin Margiela’, an eleven-minute documentary film on whom Suzy Menkes calls the ‘Greta Garbo of fashion’ (even though he did give his approval to the making of it). With no public photographs in […]
Secretly, I’ve always wanted to be a DJ + or producer. Some of you might think that one doesn’t have to do with the other, but, the latter is simply an organic progression, if you’re any good. Now, why didn’t I pursue that dream, you ask? Simply, money. To be the best I needed a […]
Every time I see a new + improved android, I am speechless as to how much closer man + machine will become indistinguishable from one another. So imagine my reaction when I saw Shan-san (or Geminoid F, the ‘F’ being for ‘Female’) above, a high-tech Japanese humanoid that appears to breathe, blink, + talk about what […]
WAKE UP! to The Flexican + Sef’s ‘Mother’s Day’ music video, which will have you working your kitchen floor like a runway, as you ready your morning coffee. Directed by Yue Wu, you get to experience a taste of the underground French voguing scene, which is still alive + thriving in today’s France. An homage to the […]
Here’s a documentary on H. R. Giger, providing a glimpse into his life + work. Enjoy!
A New York Flex on Nowness.com Wake up to some serious dance moves in film ‘Flex Is Kings’. Featuring dancers Bones the Machine + DJ Aaron, the kings of Brooklyn’s bone-popping street dance, co-director Michael Beach Nichols tells NOWNESS how the storytelling is dancing, adding ‘You’re not watching different dancers doing the same moves. Each performer summons his background […]