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Björk's New Collaboration with Viðar Logi
Björk shares her new single Atopos from her forthcoming album, Fossora. Icelandic director and photographer Viðar Logi directed the surrealist piece. The video features DJ Kasimyn of the Indonesia-based duo Gabber Modus Operandi.
The release date for Fossora is September 30th.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras’ documentary about photographer Nan Goldin’s career, and her activism against the Sackler family, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival last week.
Originally intended to be the story of Nan Goldin’s advocacy group in efforts to tackle the US opioid crisis, Poitras decided to expand the horizons of the film to thread in a portrait of Goldin’s illustrious career.
Michael Kiwanuka x Phillip Youmans
Life flashing before your eyes. Phillip Youmans stages an impromptu game of Russian Roulette with with a parent’s revolver in this powerful recent piece for Michael Kiwanuka’s Beautiful Life.
The track is taken from the soundtrack for Convergence: Courage In A Crisis.
Album Art: The Story of Hipgnosis
Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis explores one of the world's most iconic design studios of the 1970s, Hipgnosis, responsible for some of the most recognisable album covers of all time (a selection below).
The film is directed by veteran film and music video director and photographer Anton Corbijn, best known for his black-and-white portraits, and who has been creative director of Depeche Mode and U2 for over three decades.
The documentary premiered at Telluride Film Festival, and is slated for a 2023 release.
Click here for a gallery of all 190 Hipgnosis covers.
New Tricks for Bonobo
Irish directing-duo The McGloughlin Brothers create this mesmerising zoetrope throughout Portugal, captured from a train window on a journey from Faro to Lisbon to Porto.
The video pays homage and builds upon Michel Gondry’s iconic Star Guitar for the Chemical Brothers, made twenty years previous.
Bonobo has a rich history of collaboration with visual artists and directors to create mind-blowing videos, here’s three of the best:
No Reason (2017)
Oscar Hudson, known for his distinct creative style, defies the laws of physics with this impossible multi-room one-take, captured completely in-camera.
Kerala (2017)
Dave Bullivant conjures a hypnotic feeling of paranoia. The effect is achieved using a looped edit that slowly rocks forward against the track and Gemma Arterton’s performance.
Cirrus (2013)
Cyriak is a British animator known for his surreal and bizarre web animations. You may of seen the bovine choreography of Cows & Cows & Cows when it broke the internet over a decade ago.
Landscapes In Flux
Framerate is a new installation film exploring the impact of human behavior and the immense force of nature on our landscapes.
The film was created using state-of-the-art imaging technology by Scanlabs, who captured thousands of 3D time-lapse scans of British landscapes over 2 years.
The film premiered at Venice Immersive, and will be on show at the London BFI Film Festival next month.