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Breathing (Atmen)

A story of rehabilitation, Breathing doesn’t hammer home its theme of new life through death. Instead, it focuses on a young man with a Year Zero outlook.

Submotion Orchestra

Fragments is the hotly anticipated second album from septet Submotion Orchestra and it doesn’t disappoint.

Brasstronaut

Vancouver-based Brasstronaut’s sound has developed over the years to include six members playing instruments such as flugelhorn, lap steel and trumpets in addition to their usual line up.

Animated Encounters, Film Festival Review, Bristol

Animated Encounters 2012, Bristol, has once again provided a welcome platform from which to fully appreciate the electrifying potential of animation. The festival ran from 18 until 23 September.

Yung Ho Chang and FCJZ: Material-ism, UCCA, Beijing

Yung Ho Chang, a pioneer of contemporary Chinese architecture, presents his first retrospective at UCCA, Beijing. The exhibition includes over six installations, 40 models and 270 drawings.

William Klein: Paintings, Etc at HackelBury Fine Art

For the first time in 60 years, rare and unseen works by the internationally acclaimed artist William Klein will be presented by HackelBury Fine Art from 21 September until 20 December.

Interview with Maggie Pinhorn, Director of Photomonth Photofair

Photomonth Photofair will open on 6 October at Spitalfields Traders Market, giving guests the chance to peruse stalls run by photographers and galleries selling prints, books and magazines.

Scott Campbell: They Say Miracles Are Past, OHWOW

Scott Campbell presents They Say Miracles Are Past at OHWOW from 4 October. This show reveals that Campbell’s appetite for patent imagery continues his repute, but it also signals a new direction.

Tony Arefin: The Graphic Design of Tony Arefin, Ikon, Birmingham

Occupying the top floor of Ikon Gallery is a retrospective collection of the graphic designs pioneered by Tony Arefin. Today, he is celebrated as a transgressor of the graphic design world.

Eric Bainbridge: Steel Sculptures, Camden Arts Centre, London

Eric Bainbridge opens his first solo show in over 10 years on 28 September at Camden Arts Centre. The sculptor brings together a series of new sculptural works made from steel amongst other materials.

Interview with Kris Ruhs, Landing on Earth, The Wapping Project, London

Landing on Earth, a new exhibition by Milan based American artist and maker, Kris Ruhs, inhabits The Wapping Project during the London Design Festival and Frieze Art Fair with three new works.

Review of Let There Be Light, Gazeli Art House, London

Let There Be Light at Gazeli Art House, London, brings together a group of works from international artists and design collectives which use the medium of light as their primary means of expression.

David Roberts Art Foundation: House of Leaves

David Robert’s Art Foundation opens its new doors at Mornington Crescent with House of Leaves. Aesthetica takes a moment to review the opening exhibition, which runs from 21 September.

Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly

Following the popularity of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, the director’s previous film About Elly has just received its UK cinema release. About Elly won a Silver Bear at the Berlinale.

Let There Be Light, Gazelli Art House, London

Let There Be Light focuses exclusively on artists who use light as a medium to create sculpture and installations, ranging from natural light through stained glass windows to the use of neon tubing.

Interview with Samantha Donnelly, Reception at Standpoint Gallery

Samantha Donnelly is known for her experimental assemblage and collage works, which combine awkward and beautiful, overtly feminised materials and images into telling combinations.

Yael Bartana: And Europe Will Be Stunned, Ikon, Birmingham

With the 20th century came bloodshed and genocide on a scale so vast and industrial even now it barely seems fathomable. The Nazi’s final solution stands out as the most heart wrenching.

Miguel Gomes, Winner of the Alfred Bauer Award and FIPRESCI Prize

Winner of the Alfred Bauer Award and FIPRESCI Prize, Tabu is a strange and intriguing film. It begins in Lisbon where Aurora, a woman on her deathbed, wants to locate a man from her past.

Interview with the British Pavilion’s Venice Takeway, Venice Architecture Biennale

This year’s 13th Venice Architecture Biennale provided the backdrop to the British Pavilion’s Venice Takeaway exhibition. Crane.tv interviewed 10 architecture teams from 10 countries.

Interview with films4peace Artist: Janet Biggs

The 21 September is World Peace Day, a day of ceasefire across the globe and the chance for artists and organisations to demonstrate acts of peace. The films4peace is curated by Mark Coetzee.