D/B Movie Feature: TRON:LEGACY / The Official Trailer
Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years.
Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant, father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that [...]
D/B Album Feature: BERSARIN QUARTETT
With some albums, you realize within a few seconds that here you have come across something really special. It is music that touches you straight away. Music that is important, that has a story to tell and that manages to do so without even a single line of lyrics. D/B highly recommended!
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D/B recommended: laika AV event @ Sputnik Kino Berlin, Saturday 06.03.2010
LAIKA is a project focusing on contemporary AudioVisual arts. LAIKA hosts performances, screenings, discussions and related AV practices.
This time the lineup includes live cinema performance by RAFAËL and a concert by Chris Imler.
D/B Video Feature: Meredith Monk Documentary
Documentary about the composer Meredith Monk and her works. Directed by Peter Greenaway, part of the “Four American Composers” series.
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Meredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which dwell in the spaces between music, theatre, and [...]
D/B Video Feature: John Cage Documentary
Documentary about the composer John Cage and his works/performances. Directed by Peter Greenaway, part of the “Four American Composers” series.
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John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker, and amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A pioneer of [...]
D/B Video Feature: Philip Glass Documentary
Documentary about the composer Philip Glass and his works/performances. Directed by Peter Greenaway, part of the “Four American Composers” series.
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Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged [...]
D/B BOOK REVIEW: RAFAEL RASHID – BEHIND THE BEAT: HIP HOP HOME STUDIOS
Before the track, there is a love… Behind the Beat is a look into the creative spaces of producers and DJ’s from the US and UK.
D/B Video Feature: Stüssy’s J Dilla Documentary
On Saturday Febuary 13th, 2010 to celebrate the life of brilliant hip hop producer and rapper James “J Dilla” Yancey.
Stussy created a special documentary on the life of the brilliant Hip-Hop producer and MC & is releasing a limited edition tee shirt produced in conjunction with Stones Throw and the Dilla Estate. For the release, [...]
D/B Movie Feature: Das letzte Schweigen
13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.
Directed by Baran bo Odar based on the novel “Das Schweigen” by Costin Wagner.
D/B Movie Feature: Les Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec
Les Aventures extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Dry-White) is a Franco-Belgian comics adventure series written and illustrated by French comics artist Jacques Tardi.
The movie adaptation of Adele Blanc-Sec, titled “Les aventures extraordinaires d’Adele Blanc-Sec” and directed by Luc Besson, will be released in France on April, 14th, 2010.
D/B Movie Feature: SOME DAYS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS
Some Days are Better Than Others is Matt McCormick’s poetic, character-driven debut feature-length film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the difficult times seem so sticky.
Here the first trailer for the upcoming feature film written and directed by Matt McCormick and featuring James Mercer, Carrie Brownstein, Renee Roman Nose and [...]
D/B Movie Feature: EARTHLING
After a mysterious atmospheric event aboard the International Space Station, a small group of people wake up to realize that their entire lives have been a lie. They are in fact aliens disguised as humans.
Now they have to make a choice. Live amongst men, or try to find a way back home. Here the impressive [...]
D/B Recommended: CHRIS CUNNINGHAM LIVE @ ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL / SOUTHBANK / LONDON | APRIL 23, 2010
Acclaimed film director and video artist Chris Cunningham has created some of the most iconic music videos of recent years from Bjork’s ‘All is Full of Love’ to Aphex Twin’s ‘Windowlicker’.
This special live show sees him combine his own and remixed music with brand new and unreleased videos to create a hugely anticipated multimedia experience.
D/B Book Review: John Peel The Olivetti Chronicles
Over the course of his career, John Peel wrote for magazines and newspapers such as the International Times, Sounds, the Observer, Radio Times and Disc.
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The Olivetti Chronicles gathers many of these articles, as well as unpublished pieces. Interspersed with Peel’s laconic thoughts on shaving and Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells [...]
D/B Video Feature: Muhsinah – Always
Always By Muhsinah from the album “The Oscillations:Triangle” featuring “That Day” produced by Oddisee & “Lose My Fuse” produced By Flying Lotus.
Directed by beeple.com / Producer: rxlngr.com
D/B Recommended: CTM 2010 / Club Transmediale | 28.01-07.02.2010
The 11th edition of CTM (club transmediale), Berlin’s Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts, considered Berlin’s best electronic & experimental music event under the title OVERLAP – Sound & Other Media.
The Festival will take place in the following venues: WMF / .HBC / HAU 2 / House of World Cultures / SPA / [...]
D/B Movie feature: Dog Pound
Three young offenders – Carlin, Angel and Davis – arrive at Maplewood juvenile correctional center and are placed under the authority of Goodyear, an experienced, strict yet empathetic guard. Directed by Kim Chapiron.
D/B Movie Feature: Daybreakers
Release Date is 8 January 2010. Directed by Michael and Peter Spierig.
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Every second thursday of the month @ Madame Claude
The MADEIRADIG Festival 2010
3-6.12.2010 | Madeira Island / Portugal
