Bret Morgen's portrait is the likes of which you've never seen before. A testament to the unique person that was Kurt Cobain. Through a combination of sketches, doodles, paintings, photographs and voice recordings (all set to animation) the audience gets a candid look at a kind, disarming yet tortured artist.
Read MoreToday we celebrate the centenary of America's classic film genius, Orson Welles.
It's fascinated me the amount of reflections that are in his films, ever since I first saw The Lady From Shanghai.
Read MoreToward the end of the 19th Century, motion on film became a celebrated cause for a minority of photographers and inventors. In England, a still photographer named Eadweard Muybridge's natural curiosity incited his experiments with motion in 1877. Using multiple cameras, he captured the motion of animals and created the sense of movement by projecting the images onto a spinning disk, culminating in his invention of the Zoopraxiscope in 1879.
Read MoreDespite its Frankenstein and Island of Doctor Moreau story pretensions, Ex Machina ends up a fable about men, their fear of insignificance and their desire to control. I found myself pondering what it said about the male gaze afterward. With plenty of young men alone watching pornography, it was no surprise to see robots who appear to be women and yet have no freedom to express themselves.
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