In the old days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and music was primarily heard through vinyl discs on a rotating machine with a needle, you’d go down to your local record shop and purchase an album. Then you’d go back home, slap the platter on your player and listen intently. More often than not, these albums would have a picture of the artist or group on the front, staring joyously or moodily back at you. These were the people making the sounds you heard. All very simple. Ask your grandparents about it.
- 1/25/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers (1994) is a relic of Generation X.It plays out like a hypnotic and wild teen magazine on acid, its TV aesthetic of the pre 9/11 era is fantastical and analog. The cut and paste sonics in the film create a 3D rollercoaster. Trent Reznor produced the soundtrack. It was 1994 and Nine Inch Nails were one of the hottest bands in the world and Reznor had helped create a new aesthetic and attitude. Pop was dark and serious, unafraid of overtly sexual and political language both musically and visually. And visuals were as important as the music. Reznor’s production credit from Natural Born Killers was the start of things to come. This soundtrack mix goes deep into the journey of Trent Reznor’s explorations in cinema. Alongside Natural Born Killers, included in this mix are two films that signified early on Reznor’s future relationship to film,...
- 4/18/2021
- MUBI
Break out the candles! The venerable Melbourne Underground Film Festival becomes a full-fledged teenager when it celebrates its 16th annual edition on September 11-20 this year.
Last year saw a stripped down Muff, focusing on local outre filmmakers and a fine selection of international weirdness — and they want more this year. The fest will also be returning to its new home, the Backlot Studios.
Sixteen years and counting, the Melbourne Underground Film Festival has shown a fierce commitment to under appreciated cinema and it’s awesome to see them still kicking it. If your film is kick ass, a little bit or a lot out there and faintly uncategorizable and possibly unloved wherever “decent” people like to congregate, then Muff might be a good home for it.
See below for submission deadlines, entry fee information, submission links and guidelines.
Deadline & Entry Fees
Deadline via Festhome:
June 30
Entry Fees:
Feature Film:...
Last year saw a stripped down Muff, focusing on local outre filmmakers and a fine selection of international weirdness — and they want more this year. The fest will also be returning to its new home, the Backlot Studios.
Sixteen years and counting, the Melbourne Underground Film Festival has shown a fierce commitment to under appreciated cinema and it’s awesome to see them still kicking it. If your film is kick ass, a little bit or a lot out there and faintly uncategorizable and possibly unloved wherever “decent” people like to congregate, then Muff might be a good home for it.
See below for submission deadlines, entry fee information, submission links and guidelines.
Deadline & Entry Fees
Deadline via Festhome:
June 30
Entry Fees:
Feature Film:...
- 1/23/2015
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
About a month ago I shared some awesome news about the return of a rare, nearly forgotten collaboration between two giants from the golden era of industrial music: the Ep Recoiled, featuring tracks from the classic Nine Inch Nails albums Broken and The Downward Spiral, retooled with ominous intent by occult-themed experimental music pioneers Coil. Recoiled was finally picked up for official release via UK label Cold Spring, who released it to hungry fans this week. Described as “a rambunctious alchemy of magical Coil sensibilities and hi-tech (circa '90s) home mixing techniques,” the remix sessions that would eventually spawn Recoiled first reached fans' ears as a bundle of four tracks, offered via Nin fan forums as the download-only Ep Uncoiled. They involved raw tracks from the original Spiral and Broken mixes recorded by Nin's Trent Reznor, who delivered them on Dat tape to Coil's Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson (also...
- 2/26/2014
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
In the golden era of industrial music, two legends of the genre teamed up to remix a set of tracks from Nine Inch Nails' iconic early releases, Broken and The Downward Spiral. Back then, Nin's Trent Reznor frequently collaborated with members of the pioneering UK group Coil – including John Balance, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson and Danny Hyde – and Reznor even worked behind the camera with Christopherson (shown below, on left) for the controversial mock-snuff-porn video known by fans simply as “The Broken Movie,” which is still horrifying unprepared viewers today. Christopherson and Balance have since departed this world, but their creative touch lives on in this collection of remixes from Cold Spring Records. While the tracks were never officially released, many were discovered and compiled by Nin forum members for the digital Ep Uncoiled, and they've now been remastered for CD and vinyl, along with a never-before-heard remix of “Eraser” from the same sessions.
- 1/25/2014
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
If you thought your electro music was something special, take a look at what this 10-foot, dual-resonant solid-state Tesla coil can do. Yes, it's the theme song to Nintendo's "Super Mario Bros.," but while the song is simple, the science is complex.
According to the Oracle, Usf's student newspaper, it took the University of South Florida's X-labs team two years of weekly meetings to complete a version of the device that Nikola Tesla invented around 1891.
The team says in the description of its YouTube video that it will present the coil at the Usf Engineering Expo on Feb. 22-23. Andrew Raij, X-Labs' adviser and assistant professor at the department of electrical engineering, told the Oracle he hopes an energetic show will inspire high school students either to pursue a career in engineering or enroll at Usf, and a doctoral student involved with the project cited Blue Man Group as a model for their performance.
According to the Oracle, Usf's student newspaper, it took the University of South Florida's X-labs team two years of weekly meetings to complete a version of the device that Nikola Tesla invented around 1891.
The team says in the description of its YouTube video that it will present the coil at the Usf Engineering Expo on Feb. 22-23. Andrew Raij, X-Labs' adviser and assistant professor at the department of electrical engineering, told the Oracle he hopes an energetic show will inspire high school students either to pursue a career in engineering or enroll at Usf, and a doctoral student involved with the project cited Blue Man Group as a model for their performance.
- 2/14/2013
- by William McGuinness
- Huffington Post
Maddening, sexy, disorientating – the work of the late Derek Jarman is as breathtaking and relevant as it ever was
This year's Edinburgh film festival may have been discussed in tones usually reserved for particularly gloomy wakes, but in the name of karma it only seems fair to note what it's done right. So consider this a compliment on the decision to invite guest curator Gus Van Sant to programme a short season devoted to the late Derek Jarman. Because while there's a steady stream of interest in Jarman's work via the DVD arm of the British Film Institute, there's also the vague but unshakable feeling that his name now enters the world's conversations as much in connection with his wondrous Dungeness garden as his films.
Not to mention his posthumous place in the landscape of British cinema. As with so much of the eternal debate around Jarman, I can't escape...
This year's Edinburgh film festival may have been discussed in tones usually reserved for particularly gloomy wakes, but in the name of karma it only seems fair to note what it's done right. So consider this a compliment on the decision to invite guest curator Gus Van Sant to programme a short season devoted to the late Derek Jarman. Because while there's a steady stream of interest in Jarman's work via the DVD arm of the British Film Institute, there's also the vague but unshakable feeling that his name now enters the world's conversations as much in connection with his wondrous Dungeness garden as his films.
Not to mention his posthumous place in the landscape of British cinema. As with so much of the eternal debate around Jarman, I can't escape...
- 6/24/2011
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
2010 was one wacky up-and-down year in the horror domain… and definitely a head-scratcher in the world of music. Sadly, music's darker side weathered some losses this year, including metal legend Ronnie James Dio, Type O Negative's Peter Steele, Paul Gray from Slipknot and Peter Christopherson of Coil. But while we miss them and the sinister sounds they could have made, we're actually here to point out some of the good times in the wild and weird world of music during the past twelve moons. Whether it's horror cinema soundscapes, splattery music videos, epic metal masterpieces or gothic power-pop grooves, the year had a little something for all of us late-night listeners. Sure, not everyone's going to...
- 12/21/2010
- FEARnet
It’s lucky 13 for the Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, BC. That is, their 13th annual fest is all set to run on Oct 8-16. That’s nine mind-blowing nights of experimental short films, live film performances and culture-shattering documentaries.
The fest kicks off on the 8th with a 16mm screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s classic silent film Battleship Potemkin that will be accompanied by a live soundtrack by DJ-son Bitter Herbs [Jason Flower]. The people’s revolution never sounded so funky! Then, the fest concludes on the 16th with the event “Uzos [Underwater Zombies from Outer Space]” and will feature performances by Ryan Beattie, Atomic Vaudeville, Slut Revolver, Wes Borg and more.
Smooshed between those two events will be the debut feature film by acclaimed ethnographic filmmaker Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where They May, which documents the amazing recreation of a bold escape made by slaves. Other feature length documentaries screening are: Teen Routines,...
The fest kicks off on the 8th with a 16mm screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s classic silent film Battleship Potemkin that will be accompanied by a live soundtrack by DJ-son Bitter Herbs [Jason Flower]. The people’s revolution never sounded so funky! Then, the fest concludes on the 16th with the event “Uzos [Underwater Zombies from Outer Space]” and will feature performances by Ryan Beattie, Atomic Vaudeville, Slut Revolver, Wes Borg and more.
Smooshed between those two events will be the debut feature film by acclaimed ethnographic filmmaker Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where They May, which documents the amazing recreation of a bold escape made by slaves. Other feature length documentaries screening are: Teen Routines,...
- 10/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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