Issue 002
ANA LILY AMIRPOUR
is an American filmmaker, screenwriter of Iranian descent. Her debut feature A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night an Iranian Spaghetti Western made its debut in 2014. After meeting in Cannes Film Festival we caught up with Lily to talk Artificial Intelligence and its role in the creative film making process,Never Ending Story, dropping out to find yourself and LSD.
BRIAN THOREEN, Mexico City
Having moved from New York to Mexico City, Thoreen’s journey took him on an artistic odyssey where he fell in love with the city’s collaborative and inclusive nature. In this conversation we delve into the mind of the designer, exploring his creative evolution and the birth of MASA gallery, a platform that challenges the traditional boundaries between art and design.
SPACE POPULAR, Vienna
Space Popular, a pioneering design and research practice exploring the blend of physical and virtual spaces. Their latest project, The Portal Galleries, unveils the allure of portals in popular culture, raising intriguing questions about our innate fascination with these gateways. In the following conversation, we uncover the genesis of their partnership and their profound belief in the inevitable future of virtual reality as a media powerhouse, despite its potential impact on our world.
Issue 001
JARON ALBERTIN ~ Mexico City
The Canadian director recently relocated from New York to Mexico City. I caught up with him in his new home in Roma Norte, Mexico. Surrounded by treasures by Pierre Jeanneret to Carlo Scarpa as well as locally found curiosities while working on his next feature/s with the help of Artificial Intelligence.
JASON WOODSIDE ~ New Zealand
Artist, native Floridien and my former studio mate in New York, Jason Woodside made a bold move to New Zealand to be close to his son Ra. We caught up with him and his fiance Bella Barbour in Byron Bay where he was fullfilling one of his commitements with surf brand Vissla.
KYM ELLERY ~ Paris
Perth-born Kym Ellery started out making her designs in the back of my friend Clare Buckley’s apartment in Surry Hills. Clare was an old friend from my West London years and had become the editor of Russh Magazine.
Kym went on to become one of Australia’s most celebrated and successful designers before moving to Paris where she always seemed to me destined to be. I have always admired her incredible creative spirit, and the ability to inspire an army of keen young hands to help bring her designs to life while being incredibly tenacious in all that it takes to be a business mogul. After nine years in business, Ellery became the second Australian designer to be invited to join the Chambre Syndicale du Prét à Porter, French fashion’s governing body.
The pandemic forced a timeout followed by carrying her first child to term, delivering in 2022. In our conversation we discuss this and other topics whilst I was in Sydney and she’d just returned from five weeks in Thailand with her partner Jeremy and newborn prince Armand de Casis.