Cockatoo, Short Film, ASFF
Cockatoo tells the story of a man attempting to heal his heart by hiring a girl to play the role of his ex-girlfriend. The comedy was produced by Ninja Milk and directed by Matthew Jenkin.
Cockatoo tells the story of a man attempting to heal his heart by hiring a girl to play the role of his ex-girlfriend. The comedy was produced by Ninja Milk and directed by Matthew Jenkin.
A three minute documentary, Three Blind Mice reflects on how Geoff Souster launched his career as a bespoke tailor and perfected his craft over 40 years. Entries are open for this year’s ASFF.
Screened at ASFF 2012, Daddy is a visceral expression of director Sydney Southam’s knowledge of her father’s suicide. The artist film depicts Southam’s privileged, yet tragic background.
Natural Perception was an art show curated by Aretha Campbell at 68 Dean Street, a Georgian House in Soho. The stunning venue showcased the work of eight artists including Emilie Pugh.
ABCDead is a two minute tale of experimental genius. Shot in black and white, the short follows a story of sadness and untimely death. Directed by Camilla Robinson and produced by Dapper Films.
Safwan Dahoul exhibits his work for the first time in the UK at Ayyam Gallery. Repetitive Dreams includes the first series of paintings Dahoul has created since leaving Damascus for Dubai last year.
The new Ellen Gallagher show opens at Tate. After last year’s gigantic displays of work by Damien Hirst and Edvard Munch it’s refreshing to see a not so publicly known artist on view at the gallery.
The Starry Messenger was a convention recently held at St Fagans National History Museum and was a prelude to the exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Aesthetica speaks to Bedwyr Williams.
The title of the show should be understood as a pun: forbidden fruit, but also fruit that needs defending. It’s a nod towards the opening of the gallery itself, the fruit of some labour and enterprise.
Exclusive to Aesthetica, The Last Skeptik releases his music video for Be There, which is a short horror film. Released on BBE, the song will be available from 6 May on the album Thanks for Trying.
London’s graphic art and illustration festival is back again; this year with with a focus on the inclusive and interactive. Pick Me Up finishes on Sunday 28 April so get yourselves to Somerset House.
After 10 years of renovation, Rijksmuseum reopens tomorrow. Fittingly, there will be a weekend of festivities led by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who will lead the opening ceremony.
The Graphic Arts festival Pick Me Up opens 18 April at Somerset House. An annual celebration of the wonderfully diverse sphere of graphic arts, the festival brings together a plethora of works.
The Magic of the State is the name given to a new group exhibition, which has recently opened at Lisson Gallery. The show coincides with a display of the same name in Cairo’s Beirut gallery.
ASFF allows for budding and established filmmakers to connect with new, worldwide audiences and interact with some of the biggest personalities in the film industry today. Open for entries.
The current show at Galleria Massimo Minini is a double solo show with Italian sculptor and painter Ettore Spalletti and conceptual artist Sol Lewitt.
Salvatore Arancio talks with Aesthetica about science and psychedelia in his solo show at Rowing Projects. The exhibition has been put into dialogue with Samara Scott’s cabinet room project Cd0xdsspi.
Pae White has created a maze of black, red, blue and purple threads which reach from and terminate into the gallery walls as endless and bewildering as the sleepless nights that conceived it.
Taking inspiration from an assimilation of influences, Lemaitre have reached number one in the iTunes Electronica chart. Aesthetica speaks to the Norwegian duo about their work and future projects.
