avant garde Archives - Desperate Living

David Lynch’s Darkened Room

An unsettling short film from the director’s experimental 2000s era.

The Eyes Have It! Blank Faces, A Ballpoint Pen And Boredom Combine To Create New Art From Old

The headline-grabbing ‘improvements’ to an Anna Leporskaya painting by a security guard are as valid a critique and reconstruction as anything from the mainstream art world.

Noirvember: Branded To Kill

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Continuing our crime movie month with a look at Seijun Suzuki’s radical reinterpretation of the Japanese gangster movie.

Classic Albums Revisited: HK119’s Imaginature

A psychedelic, conceptual study of nature and mystery from a unique and vital artist.

This Is Intolerable! 200 Motels Too Far

Frank Zappa’s notoriously self-indulgent film and the long-banned stage show version of it.

Yoko Ono Gets Her Bottom Spanked By The British Censors

The time the BBFC got its knickers in a twist about four minutes of jiggling buttocks.

The Zappa Documentary Is Here

The long-awaited documentary study of the musical maverick gets a US release in November.

It’s Hip to be Square-ish. The Residents Set Fire to Popular Music Over Seven Discs

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Probing the wonders and frustrations of The Residents’ Cube-E Box extravaganza.

The Past Lives And Tomorrows Of Sloth Cult

Industrial gloom and bleak noise from the mysterious act known as Sloth Cult.

Classic Albums Revisited: Frank Zappa’s Apostrophe (‘)

Looking back at Frank Zappa’s magnum opus from 1974.

Labyrinth Tales: The Short Films Of Shuji Terayama

The controversial and experimental films of the Japanese provocateur.

Dyin’ Dogs, Metal, Meat And Bone – The Residents Are Not Done Yet

The uber-experimentalists move on from the loss of their leader with a new, angry and aggressive reconstruction of the blues.