MAGGIE

Posted on 2015-07-20

By the time a necrotic viral pandemic spread cross-country to small town America and infected the film’s titular character, 16-year-old MAGGIE (ABIGAIL BRESLIN), authorities had established a protocol for patients infected with the deadly virus: they are removed from society and taken to special isolation wards to complete the agonizing and dangerous transformation into one of the walking dead. The authorities do not speak about what happens after that.

Wade Vogel (ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER) is not ready to give up his daughter. After weeks of searching for Maggie when she runs away following her diagnosis, Wade brings his daughter back to her home and family – stepmother, Caroline (JOELY RICHARDSON), and her two children–for whatever time may be left as the teenager begins an excruciatingly painful metamorphosis. Having lost Maggie’s mother years earlier, Wade is determined to hold on to his precious daughter as long as he can, refusing to surrender her to the local police who show up with orders to take her. As the disease progresses, Caroline decides to take their two younger children and move out, leaving Wade alone with Maggie to watch helplessly as she suffers.

In theatres July 24th, 2015

maggiethefilm.com

  

HUF X HAROSHI VINYL MIDDLE FINGER

Posted on 2015-07-20

HUF drops a limited-edition HUF x Haroshi Vinyl Middle Finger collectible for the re-opening of their HUF Fairfax Flagship Store. Coinciding with his recent replication of Keith Hufnagel’s middle finger permanently installed at the entrance of the HUF store, Haroshi has produced a limited-edition, handcrafted vinyl middle finger piece.

Limited to 50 numbered pieces worldwide,

www.hufworldwide.com

  

LINDSAY MORRIS – YOU ARE YOU

Posted on 2015-07-20

“You Are You” documents an annual weekend summer camp for gender-nonconforming children and their families. This camp offers a temporary safe haven, where children can freely express their interpretations of gender alongside their parents and siblings without feeling the need to look over their shoulders.

In 2007, Lindsay Morris began attending the camp with a loved one and has continued to document the camp experience over the last seven years. It was with a great deal of courage that, in 2012, the camp parents and children agreed to have selected images published as a cover article for “The New York Times Magazine.” This started an important and timely dialogue in a public forum. Since then, the story has been published in France, Italy, Germany, Israel, Australia, and Eastern Europe, demonstrating a common global interest in the predicament of gender-independent youth.

Morris writes: “By sharing this unique story, I intend to reach beyond the confines of the camp to contribute to a dialogue about the crucial role that support plays in the lives of gender-nonconforming children. A lack of understanding of gender identity and the ways in which these children express themselves often lead to discrimination. Through these images the viewer will experience something different–a groundbreaking, heart opening place that serves as the backdrop for this important moment in history, where the first gender-creative childhoods are being freely expressed.

Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2015

CLAMPART
521-531 West 25th St
Ground Floor
New York
NY 10001

clampart.com

  

MICHAEL WOLF – TOKYO COMPRESSION

Posted on 2015-07-20

Michael Wolf’s iconic photo series Tokyo Compression depicts the daily commute in Tokyo.

The series is made up of portraits of people in the subway constrained between glass, steel and fellow travelers. The work is a fascinating study in the psychology of the modern commuter and the techniques people use to cope with the difficulty of this daily necessity.

Tokyo Compression regards the subway as a metonym for contemporary life. It is a dystopian view of the pressures of daily working life in large cities, and in the globalized, market-driven, developed world more generally. The edit, which is concentrated on the passengers’ facial expressions and body language, moves the work from a straight documentary description of discomfort towards a dramatization of suffering.

Tokyo Compression speaks of the alienation of the working masses. It queries ideas of community, enforced or otherwise, and the increasing importance and precariousness of trust in our society and our systems – social, political and economic. Tokyo Compression speaks of the pressure of time and the burden of waiting; about mobility, the drive to succeed, and the fear and anxiety of failure. It also speaks poignantly of sadness and loneliness.

Exhibition runs through to August 22nd, 2015

Belfast Exposed Photography
The Exchange Place
23 Donegall Street
BT1 2FF
Belfast

www.belfastexposed.org

  

TREVOR JACKSON – SCIENCE FICTION DANCEHALL

Posted on 2015-07-20

A curated selection of classics, rarities and unreleased tracks from the On-U Sound vaults by DJ & Audio Visual artist Trevor Jackson (aka Playgroup / Underdog), renowned for his Metal Dance compilations of industrial-dance on Strut Records, having worked with the likes of LCD Soundsystem and Four Tet via his Output Recordings Label, and a recently released acclaimed multi edition album of his own music (FORMAT) via the vinyl factory.

This is the electro-fried avant-garde side of On-U Sound. Whilst still containing the dub DNA that define Adrian Sherwood’s productions, these tracks document a period when this sonic vision was realised through saturated sheets of electronics, reverberating drum machines and extreme chopped-up tape edits.

Available on as a 2CD / 27-track set, or a 3LP edition that has 20 tracks on the vinyl plus the additional 7 tracks from the CD as part of the download card.

Fully annotated with sleevenotes that tell the story behind each track. Features 3 completely unreleased tracks (inc. a crucial early cut by Neneh Cherry) and 6 tracks that have never been reissued on CD or digital (inc. the amazing debut recording by a pre-Massive Attack Shara Nelson).

on-usound.com
www.trevor-jackson.com

  

MILTON ROGOVIN

Posted on 2015-07-20

In 1972, at the age of 63, Rogovin began to photograph Buffalo’s Lower West Side. Turning up on streets from blue collar family neighborhoods to places where it was dangerous to ask too many questions (the reason many of the pictures are un-named) Rogovin photographed indoors and outdoors, individuals and family groups, as he sought to convey the truth of the lives of his subjects and their environment.

Returning to this neighborhood for three decades, Rogovin created singular portraits as well as triptychs and quartets photographing the same individuals or families with each visit. The resulting groups provide an extraordinary look at the passage of time. Rogovin completed the Lower West Side series at the age of 92. He died in 2011 at the age of 101.

Rogovin’s photographs are now in the permanent collections of over two dozen museums around the world, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Center For Creative Photography at the University of Arizona-Tucson and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2015

Danziger Gallery
521 W 23rd St
New York
10011

www.danzigergallery.com