A post-apocalyptic, paranoid, Baroque fantasy, Zenith is set in a future in which geneticists have eradicated unhappiness, giving rise to a black market in pain-inducing drugs — and one man’s self-destructive quest to break through.
A visually stunning art-house Blade Runner for a generation in thrall to sex, violence, conspiracy, and urban tribalism, the film fits its “retro-futuristic steampunk thriller” tag-line perfectly. Its many plot twists innovatively even cross over into social media, drawing viewers into the mystery at its heart with engagement far beyond the film itself.
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Today at Flavorpill, we watched little kids reenact the madness of TMZ. We wanted an entire set of these artist action figures — particularly the Banksy one. We broke down the essential elements of a super-hero, periodic table-style. We tried to imagine spending $4,000 and one month’s time on building our own Iron Man suit. We were happy to see that the art section of The Ghostly Store is officially open for business. We considered buying a pair of tar speakers — but only because they were designed by David Lynch. We wondered if the Futurists would have been pissed at us for watching this film clip from 1916. We stumbled across a handy new pronunciation guide that focuses on visual artists. We looked at 100 different Darth Vader helmets, all customized in visually-stunning ways. And finally, we came to the realization that you should never leave a smug review on Yelp — unless you want your portrait made.
Like Kurt Vonnegut’s Dresden, the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is burning itself to the ground, on purpose. From the beginning, the Dadaist cabaret’s spectacle of metal piping, industrial textures, gothic pantomime, and avant-garde electronics has attempted destroy music as we know it. Ashwin Sodhi, of Flavorwire’s sister publication Earplug caught up with with Matthias Bossi — percussionist, curator of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and member of the (very) extended Vonnegut family — on the cusp of the band’s first national tour in two years, to talk Stockhausen, Neubauten, and “rock against rock.” Read More »
The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in North London is ‘one of the finest collections of early 20th century Italian art anywhere in the world’ according to Tate Director, Sir Nicholas Serota. And he’d know. Best known for its iconic Futurist works, many people are unaware of the museum’s broad collection of modern Italian art and artists from other schools. In celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Futurist manifesto, they’re currently exhibiting Umberto Boccioni, one of the most significant characters of the first wave of Futurism alongside contemporary artist Luca Buvoli, who is perhaps one of the only living artists who draws inspiration from Futurist ideologies to create works that parallel today’s society and events.
Flavorwire spoke to Chris Adams and Harry Hare, curators of the Futurism 100! exhibition (which runs through April 19), to find out more about this unique pairing of artists.
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