Elisha Smith-Leverock/I Want Muscle

"I Want Muscle" by Elisha Smith-Leverock from Creature Of London on Vimeo.

Directed by Elisha Smith-Leverock, I Want Muscle is the recent winner of the ASVOFF MK2 Grand Prix Award. The film plays with taboos and gender stereotypes and aims to explore a new kind of female beauty. Featured in the short is female bodybuilder Kizzy Vaines, the only British competitor for the Olympia Fitness title in Las Vegas.

Pictures from Dazed Digital

Buck 65/Superstars Don't Love

BUCK 65 "Superstars Don't Love" from Travis Hopkins on Vimeo.

Beginning again more than 60 screens of film titles of the cinema to illustrate the words, the artist Travis Hopkins produced for the musical artist Buck 65 this clip "Superstars Don't Love".

Gated Communities, a path to no-cities - La ciudad que huye

Horrified society and surveillance companies, as well as Governments' laws in terms of privacy, are driving "Americanized" cities into sealed bubbles of residential tissue. The promise of peaceful areas with no threats from the outside, a hypertrophied garden, and poor but "kitschly-hype" constructions, are blinding people onto a kind of fake high-level way of life. The fact is that there is no public transportation connecting those areas, and that there are no public infrastructures into those communities.

So, why including such situation into this post?

Lucrecia Martel is one of the most renowned film directors in Argentina, with films like "La ciénaga", "La niña santa" and "La mujer sin cabeza". She made an interesting short documentary about gated communities around Buenos Aires. Here it is.

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· Carlos Romo