Experimental director Simon Liu’s shorts seek “a new lexicon of approaches” to the city.
Author Archives: Matt Turner
Matt Turner is a writer and programmer based in London. He has written for various outlets including MUBI Notebook, Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, Variety, BOMB Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail; runs the experimental film screening series LOST FUTURES; and works for Open City Documentary Festival.
Using AI to Question What Art Is
Lawrence Lek’s AIDOL tells the story of an AI composer making music in a world rendered in video game graphics.
North Korea as a Multifaceted State Instead of a Boogeyman
Filmmaker Soon-mi Yoo is getting her own focus at the London Korean Film Festival. Her 2014 documentary Songs from the North takes a neutral approach toward a nation that is usually reviled or laughed at.
Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia
Smith’s Black Utopia LP forms an Afro-futurist collage of sound and language, rhapsodizing on the utopian possibilities of Black space travel and astrology.