The What Where When

One of 2011′s best films, Drive is screening at the Prince Charles Cinema throughout January. I caught up with award winning director, Nicholas Winding Refn at last year’s Cambridge Film Festival.

Jarek Piotrowski uses a variety of modern and traditional materials and technologies to create an engaging dualistic world that connotes the future and the past, the natural and the man-made, war and peace, East and West. Taking his title from William Burroughs, who used “Soft Machine” as an idiom for the human body, his first solo show in the UK is a thought provoking experience installed at Galerie8 in Hackney.

It is about a mindset, not a specific sound. Presenting heavy music in a way that doesn’t rely upon OTT machismo or ‘brutal’ imagery

Two guys locked in a rave cave!

Techno is just a label, and like all labels it is applied ultimately by the listener. Crystallising a definition, and sticking within that definition is not something that artists or musicians should do.

Michel Hazanavicius’ homage to Hollywood’s silent era is knowing and funny, but holds genuine affection for an era not unlike our own.

In the darkness of Dreileben, Germany, a killer flees from the hospital where he is detained. Dreileben, a trilogy of films with the surtitles, Beats Being Dead, Don’t Follow Me Around and One Minute of Darkness, centres on this escape and the lives of others at peril in the thick of the Thuringia forest.

Sun Glitters weighs in on the ‘chillwave’ debate: That’s why I often say that Sun Glitters makes “Shoefazing Wonkyplops”

Following a period in residence in the Outset Artists’ Flat, New York-based Independent Curators International (ICI) presents two exhibitions, FAX and Project 35, alongside a reading room in the SLG’s New Galleries.

Auto Italia Live takes on television in a series of provocative broadcasts live from Old Kent Road.