Tag: Documentary
Last year, artist Andrew Ohanesian built a fully functioning replica of a suburban home inside Pierogi Gallery’s Boiler in Brooklyn. I was there, in a manner of speaking, before the overturning of the bed and ceiling punching and the “Punk Rock for Rich Kids” wall writing, but everyone wilded out. The artist pretended to be mad but […]
Strange New Feelings is a forthcoming new documentary about skater/artist/entrepreneur Ed Templeton, who, among many other things, founded and runs Toy Machine. According to director Kevin Barnett, the film “examines the life of artist and skateboard legend Ed Templeton as he navigates a blossoming art career and a transition from professional skateboarding.” “Kevin Barnett my long […]
Last year, we spoke to Zack Baker and Adam Abada, two friends who had recently skateboarded from Boston to New York City and planned to make a documentary about the experience. Now, almost a year to the day and a handful of IRL premieres later, here’s Backstreet Atlas the fruit of their labor, finally streaming […]
Here’s The Birdman, a 10-minute documentary on the proprietor of Rainbow Music, a shop stocked with LPs, CDs, cassettes and VHS tapes at the corner of First Avenue and St. Mark’s Place. If you’ve spent any time in the East Village you’ve likely walked by; whether you’ve been inside or not largely depends on your patience for Hoarders levels […]
Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog has made a thirty-five-minute documentary for AT&T, warning people about the inherent dangers of texting while driving. The short film entitled From One Second to the Next follows several unfortunate stories of victims whose lives have either been severely effected or ended due to nonchalantly texting behind the wheel. Anyone who drives should probably […]
We haven’t gotten a chance to watch DEFCON: The Documentary, but given its circumstances and pedigree, it’s almost certainly worth a viewing. Directed by longtime technology historian and filmmaker Jason Scott, the film focuses on DEF CON, the enormous and enormously influential Las Vegas convention (the latest iteration of which went down last week). According to Scott, […]
“Back in the day there was all these people, there were hundreds of people here for music that was made by teenagers and children basically,” explains filmmaker Samuel Peralta, who’s making a documentary with Anthony Clemente about the hardcore scene of their home borough, from 1982 to 2000. Why 2000? To quote the dudes from their Staten Island Hardcore: […]
Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer is the the latest film from Wild Style director Charlie Ahearn. The aptly entitled documentary offers a glimpse into the life of Shabazz, a notable photographer who’s well known for his unique stylings of subjects and the access he was able to achieve while documenting old school NYC street culture. ANIMAL spoke to Ahearn […]
Savn.tv, a media production company associated with the religious and conservative Salvation Army is asking for $100,000 to fund their new anti-porn and anti-prostitution documentary Hard Corps on Kickstarter. The documentary contains interviews with “current and former porn stars, directors, anti-porn specialists and addiction therapists,” as well as “undercover footage” taken in brothels. Aside from exhibiting all the aesthetics […]
Before there was Humans of New York, before there was The Sartorialist, there were these guys: OG photographers like Ricky Powell, Martha Cooper, Jamel Shabazz, and Jamel Freedman, who captured the raw, beating heart of New York in decades past through its artists, graffiti writers, junkies, and street people. Everybody Street, a new documentary featuring the […]
