Yeasayer follows up with another visual treat with the sci-fi dance epic “O.N.E.” The video has a lot going for it–zany costume design, amorphous alien men, strange dystopian settings and choreographed back-up dancers. Kirby McClure and Julia Grigorian of Radical Friend, who also directed the band’s video for “Ambling Alp,” directed the short with the industrial wastelands of Los Angeles in mind. →

ODDSAC is a film collaboration between Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez. Starring the band members, the film layers audio and visual elements without a narrative, creating what looks to be a tripped-out and immersive form of spectacle. →

Owen Pallet’s latest video for “Lewis Takes Off His Shirt” follows what looks like bedroom occult practices captured on home video. Directed by M. Blash, the footage also stars theatre and film star Alison Pill, who played Anne Kronenberg in Gus Van Sant’s Milk. The song is off of Pallet’s latest record Heartland (Domino) and features beautifully layered violin and vocals in tandem with the Czech Symphonic Orchestra. →

Chuck Palahniuk’s Book Release
Largo – Los Angeles, CA
05/18/10

The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; →

A new film from Melissa Auf Der Maur!
Cinefamily Theater- Los Angeles, CA
04/01/10

Out Of Our Mindsis the bloody, brash and berserk new brainchild of Melissa Auf der Maur, member of both Hole and Smashing Pumpkins! This half-hour short film, a companion piece to her second solo album of the same name, covers three time periods, all connected by a single mythological quest: the Hunt for the Heart.

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The Bloggomist: The Local Boy
Film Opinion

There’s a lot of trash flooding the box office these days.  I swear it wasn’t long ago where you could randomly drop by the movies once a week and catch something half-decent, but those days are gone like gas under $2 a gallon.  Luckily, if you’re spoiled like I am and have a theater like LA’s Landmark providing screentime for more deserving features that lack mainstream clout, there’s still hope.  There are two particular films that recently released are worth taking the time to hunt down or request at your local box office: Un Prophete and Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother.  And trust me–they’re worth the effort. →

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
Guggenheim Museum – New York, NY
3/25/10

Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by the history of art, by apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive mediums, live performance, and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, such art embodies a longing for an otherwise unrecuperable past. →

The “Socalled” Movie Premiere
Maggie Mae’s – Austin, TX
3/16/10

Meet Socalled (Josh Dolgin). He’s unstoppable. A pianist, singer, arranger, rapper, producer and composer (and also a magician, filmmaker, and visual artist), he’s blasting through the boundaries that separate music from different cultures, eras, and generations. →

Flux’s Cinema Tuesdays – Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
Live Review: 3/9/10

It has been more than a decade since the music world fell in love with The White Stripes. In 1997, the former husband-wife duo were head-of-the-class in Detroit’s lo-fi rock scene. Six studio albums, 12 million album sales, three Grammys and a divorce later, Jack and Meg White are now rock ‘n’ roll royalty with a worldwide legion of fans wearing their trademark white, red and black. →

Two weeks before the election of Barack Obama, filmmaker Jeff Deutchman asked his friends around the world to record their experiences of 11/4/08, a day that had become “historic” before it had even taken place. He collected footage from a combination of passionate amateurs and acclaimed independent filmmakers, including Henry Joost (Catfish), Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths), Joe Swanberg (Alexander the Last) and Benh Zeitlin (Glory At Sea). →