It’s been five years since David Lynch released his last film, Inland Empire, and since then, the 65-year-old auteur—who directed cult classics like Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive—has done pretty much everything but direct another movie. These days, when he’s not giving weather reports, bemoaning the debt crisis, or creating installations at Duran Duran [...]

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Director Sion Sono started out as a poet and staged guerrilla experimental poetry street performances before making films about brutal murders, twisted families, and demonic hair. His latest film is Cold Fish, a twisted tale about a struggling fish store owner who falls into the dark orbit of a rich, charismatic—and murderous—owner of a successful high-end fish shop. He speaks here about crime and creativity, pervert power, and his own cult experiences. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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Brainfeeder audio-visual artist Strangeloop’s latest Fields is a beautiful and mesmerizing experiment in sound and image. He celebrates its release with a gallery exhibit at Gus Harper Studios this Saturday, and speaks here about being in a metal band, what the real apocalypse looks like, and the DMT trip that showed him his rhythm. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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When Genesis first met Lady Jaye, Genesis had just spent the night sleeping in a friend’s S&M dungeon. S/he woke up to see a beautiful young woman wearing an exquisitely-coordinated 1960s Mod outfit walk into the dungeon, and then take off her clothes and change into an equally remarkable set of fetish gear. This episode would foreshadow the rest of their story, where love at first sight, romance, and nostalgia would blossom simultaneously with explorations into radical sexuality, gender nonconformity, and transhumanism.

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Photo designed by Dimitri Simakis Dimitri Simakis, a.k.a. “Ghoul School” is an excavator of lost and terrible VHS gold and co-founder of Everything is Terrible!, the blog that edits down video for found footage freaks worldwide. With a monstrous library of clips of awful movies, unintentionally hilarious infomercials and bizarre instructional tapes, EIT! trolls all—sometimes [...]

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The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman is a work of genius, a fantastic performance piece only the Mael brothers could dream up. Last Saturday night, the Los Angeles Film Festival presented the world premiere of Sparks’ musical at the Ford Amphitheatre, with a humorous introduction by Michael Silverblatt—the man responsible for bringing Sparks and Maddin together—of celebrated KCRW program Bookworm. Originally crafted for radio, this is the first time the piece has ever been performed by actors in front of a live audience.

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Long-running pop duo Sparks are now 22 albums deep and their latest, a musical commissioned by Swedish National Radio called The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, will be performed live at the Los Angeles Film Festival, with stage direction from Winnipeg wunderkind Guy Maddin, who hopes to direct a feature film adaptation. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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Director Guy Maddin’s latest project is a “film-to-be” adaptation of a musical written by Sparks, in which a live cast will perform on stage the story of Ingmar Bergman, mysteriously transported from his native Sweden to Hollywood during the height of the studio system in the 1950s. Maddin will direct the on-stage world premiere of The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman Saturday at the L.A. Film Festival. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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JEAN ROLLIN TRIBUTE ON FRI, JUN. 3 AT CINEFAMILY, 611 N. FAIRFAX AVE, LOS ANGELES. 8 PM / $10/FREE FOR MEMBERS / ALL AGES. CINEFAMILY.ORG.

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