OutKast’s Big Boi regales us with a tale of death defiance and deliverance in this installment of our animated series “FRAMES.”(Source: Pitchfork) Director: Dan Meth
CERRONE: Drummer Who Influenced DJs and Rap Artists
A short documentary from Pitchfork about a legendary drummer from Europe named Cerrone who was inspired by a Jimi Hendrix concert in Paris. Cerrone invented sampling, pioneered disco beats and he’s credited with inventing tribal house music.
Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials
The incomprehensible vastness of the universe, the wonder of our own place in it all… Carl Sagan was able to explain the science of space in a way everyone could understand. Among his long list of roles and accomplishments, the…
‘MEET THE PATELS’: Indian Romance Can Be Full of Family Complications
By Gregory Crofton Want to know what it’s like to be a Patel? You know, the Indian-American families named Patel who own motels all across America. I didn’t really want to know, but once I plunged into MEET THE PATELS,…
‘HOLY HELL’: Director of Cult Documentary Interviewed
“Holy Hell,” a documentary directed by Will Allen, tells of the filmmaker’s time with the Buddhafield, a Los Angeles–based “spiritual group” he joined in the 1980s. Director Will Allen shares clips from the documentary as well as the trailer, and…
Errol Morris Short Documentary: ‘DEMON IN THE FREEZER’
Smallpox was always present, filling the churchyard with corpses, tormenting with constant fear all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at…