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The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry is the result of seven years of Lee Perry digging by directors Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough, who speak now about Lee’s true spirit and his love for burning things and National Enquirer’s brand of gossip—especially when it involves Britney Spears. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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Nancy Andrews is an animator of wonderful films that explore perception and consciousness through bird-woman cyborgs, space monkeys, and spiders with faces that are equally inspired by the intersection of nature and technology and her own brush with death. She speaks now about making earrings out of photos of slabs of beef, what she learned from floating between life and death, and why she wants to be friends with a crow. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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Tom Fitzgerald is a film programmer and a video artist who has spent twenty years digging for the next big thrill. He deals in found footage, creating feature-length video mashups like Bollyweird for Cinefamily while mixing psychedelic visual freakouts for Edan, Cut Chemist and B-Music. He swears all these films exist, even though he couldn’t find cover art for all of them and even though some of them are in genres he’s just coined himself. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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Filmmakers Danny Jelinek and Jason Whetzell have fashioned their monthly web series, “Everything,” after that same anything-goes era of early ’90s late-night programming. Created for the competitive local film festival Channel 101, Jelinek and Whetzell produce two of the five segments for every five-minute episode themselves, handpicking the filmmakers for the other three segments.

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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles & Pacific Design Center & Charles S. Cohen present Counter Culture, Counter Cinema: An Avant-Garde Film Festival Co-Curated by David E. James and MM Serra SilverScreen Theater Pacific Design Center 8687 Melrose Avenue West Hollywood, CA 90069 This cinema extravaganza, programmed from the collection of The New American [...]

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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles & Pacific Design Center & Charles S. Cohen present Counter Culture, Counter Cinema: An Avant-Garde Film Festival Co-Curated by David E. James and MM Serra SilverScreen Theater Pacific Design Center 8687 Melrose Avenue West Hollywood, CA 90069 This cinema extravaganza, programmed from the collection of The New American [...]

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Trash Humpers is Harmony Korine’s latest film, shot and edited entirely on VHS and featuring a “loser-gang cult-freak collective” that smashes TVs, eats pancakes with dishwashing liquid instead of syrup, hangs out with overweight singing hookers, and yes, humps trash. Korine speaks on the phone from Nashville but got up mid-interview to try to tase a convict on a bike for throwing lemons and limes at his house.

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Most live scores I’ve seen by contemporary bands end up being ambient and atmospheric noise dumped on top of film. That can be great, but it’s rarely as memorable as The Magnetic Field’s front man Stephin Merritt singing “You can’t do that, I’m a Canadian citizen!” and deadpanning “This shoe is lined with lead” while working highly unusual, erratic, and oddly shaped electronics in the context of an epic underwater fantasy from the silent era.

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