by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on SEEING SOUNDS – Daniel Morrow presents The Bedford Green Project
NYC’s hottest multimedia experience, The Bedford Green Project, merges music and cinema into one mad experimental night of total artistic freedom, in the process redefining synesthesia – the state of mind when you can see the sounds and hear the…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Interview with avant-garde musician Yumiko Tanaka at Japan Society.
Yumiko Tanaka, a famous Japanese avant-garde musician, performed at Japan Society as part of the ongoing film series The Dark Side of the Sun: John Zorn on Japan Cinema. The series is curated by John Zorn who used to have Japanese movie…
Town Bloody Hall (1979, filmed 1971) – D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus were fortunate enough to cover a debate between notorious misogynist author Norman Mailer and the leading cadre of feminist of the day, including…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Short Movie: Bum Luck
The story about the bum who finds a black suitcase full of money already turned itself into a city legend. Watch a sleek, indie interpretation of it in John Rambo’s short movie “Bum Luck”. Starring my friend William Rivera as…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on KCA’s Black Ball hosted by Alicia Keys raises money to fight AIDS
Keep a Child Alive’s (KCA) Black Ball, an event raising funds for children and and families with HIV/AIDS in Africa and India, will take place on Thursday, November 7th at Hammerstein Ballroom. This is KCA’s 10th anniversary so the party will…
I’m happy to announce that one of my favorite Bulgarian movies (and one of the most provocative ones for sure) – BAKLAVA by Montreal-based director Alexo Petrov will be FREE to watch and optionally download. Only for one day though…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Tribeca Film Fest 2013: Interviews with the cast of Reaching for the Moon
Reaching for the Moon (original title Flores Raras) is Brazilian director Bruno Baretto’s new movie, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. What made American poet Elizabeth Bishop visit Brazil for three days and stay for 17 years? Surely love –…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Tribeca Film Festival 2013: Dark Touch review + trailer
French film-maker Marina De Van’s first horror (and fourth feature movie) Dark Touch teaches one lesson: don’t take creepy little girls home. But isn’t that something we already know? The scary movie wraps its story around Neve, an 11-year-old girl with telekinetic…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Tribeca Film Fest 2013: Jay Roach interview / Directors Series /video/
See what director/producer Jay Roach /known for Austin Powers & Meet the parents/ thinks a good comedy nowadays needs. Interview by me, video by Daniel Engelke, edit by Filippo L’Astorina.
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Tribeca Film Fest: Julianne Moore interview on the premiere of The English Teacher /video + photos/
I had the honor to catch the lovely Julianne Moore for couple of questions on Tribeca Film Fest 2013’s premiere of The English Teacher. Watch my interview with her to learn what does she like to read and what is…