getting your tracks remixed is an interesting process. never know quite what to expect and it never turns out like you think it will. our close friend belief remixed simple severin in to a hip-hop/electro hybrid – very cool to hear the direction this was taken. can’t really pin down what this track sounds like or reminds me of, but i can imagine him sitting in his cabin-esque house in the hills of echo park making this as the sun creeps in through the windows:
zebra & snake are somewhat the opposite of belief – they live in finland and we’ve never met. their take on contemporary individual is really rad, starting off in a realm of confusion and bringing everything in to focus. kinda like waking up and slowly adjusting your eyes to the morning, although its 4AM and you we’re deep in rem cycle 2:
Short Film: “Crossbow”
Gripping short by Aussie David Michôd, one of the most promising young filmmakers around the globe. Sadly, it’s a tough sell holding the youtube generation audience captive for 15 minutes. No problems here, though, as an unseen narrator manages to balance general existentialist brooding and dark hypersexual yearning with downtrodden musings on the helpless, seemingly inevitable and ultimately violent path of the film’s protagonist.
Michôd’s first feature Animal Kingdom appears even more compelling, and lucky for us it arrives Stateside in August. If you’re in need for some more great Down Under content in the meantime, check out the Blue-Tongue Film collective that Michôd calls home, perhaps pound-for-pound the greatest assembly of emerging filmic talent in the world at the moment.
Crossbow via SOTW