Chicago – There is a tremendous excitement when a fresh director voice is realized, and writer/director/actor Benjamin Dickinson is one such discovery. His feature film debut is ‘Creative Control’ – which like previous futuristic films ‘Ex Machina’ and ‘Her’– explores sex and relationships through our technological evolution.
The film is set in the near future, in Brooklyn, and involves an advertising agency on the cusp of landing their biggest account, a company whose application creates Augmented Reality (Ar). David (Benjamin Dickinson is lead actor as well) is the account facilitator, and begins to use the technology for strange purposes, as in building a hyper-realized version of his best friend’s girlfriend, Sophie (Alexia Rasmussen). This begins a rift with his own live-in girlfriend, Juliette (Nora Zehetner), and a change in relationship with his best friend Wim (Dan Gill), not to mention a downward spiral regarding the important client.
Director Benjamin Dickinson...
The film is set in the near future, in Brooklyn, and involves an advertising agency on the cusp of landing their biggest account, a company whose application creates Augmented Reality (Ar). David (Benjamin Dickinson is lead actor as well) is the account facilitator, and begins to use the technology for strange purposes, as in building a hyper-realized version of his best friend’s girlfriend, Sophie (Alexia Rasmussen). This begins a rift with his own live-in girlfriend, Juliette (Nora Zehetner), and a change in relationship with his best friend Wim (Dan Gill), not to mention a downward spiral regarding the important client.
Director Benjamin Dickinson...
- 3/22/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Maybe you were at the Burning Man Festival last week, or maybe you'd never go in a million years (that alkaline dust is no joke!). Either way, we highly recommend debriefing with a photo and video recap, straight from la playa.
This year, the installations ranged from new contributions to old standards, and all were assuredly weird. For instance, Duane Flatmo brought back his fire-spouting, 25-foot-tall metal octopus, and El Pulp Mecanico delivered the usual antics. The Pier, which earned some fame last year, debuted new tricks as Pier 2, ending in a wrecked ship filled with trinkets -- kind of like the Burning Man version of a Disney World attraction. Then there was the conversation starter of the week: Burn Wall Street, a non-partisan demonstration in which a re-imagining of the New York skyline -- including the "Merrill Lynched" building -- burned spectacularly to the ground.
Our personal favorite installation though,...
This year, the installations ranged from new contributions to old standards, and all were assuredly weird. For instance, Duane Flatmo brought back his fire-spouting, 25-foot-tall metal octopus, and El Pulp Mecanico delivered the usual antics. The Pier, which earned some fame last year, debuted new tricks as Pier 2, ending in a wrecked ship filled with trinkets -- kind of like the Burning Man version of a Disney World attraction. Then there was the conversation starter of the week: Burn Wall Street, a non-partisan demonstration in which a re-imagining of the New York skyline -- including the "Merrill Lynched" building -- burned spectacularly to the ground.
Our personal favorite installation though,...
- 9/5/2012
- by Mallika Rao
- Huffington Post
British quartet Fujiya & Miyagi recently announced that their fourth full-length is a concept album revolving around the idea of someone speaking for you. “Dummies are thought of as creepy; they can reflect a split personality, and that relates to the idea of being in a group, where you are presented as one entity, even though everyone comes from different angles and thinks about one thing very differently from the others," singer and guitarist David Best told Reax Music....
- 10/25/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
Hometown: Brighton & Hove, England
Album: Lightbulbs
For Fans Of: The Beta Band, The Blow, Kraftwerk
“I don’t write a narrative, like how Lou Reed might,” explains David Best, lead singer of Fujiya & Miyagi—a British band, not a Japanese duo—his accent thick and charming via telephone. “My writing style is more fragmented and cut up,” he says, resulting in bouncing “vocal gymnastics” that transform single words and random phrases (like “collected a capellas,” “photocopier,” and “three-thousand piece puzzle of raspberry ripple ice-cream”) into sparse yet captivating hooks, caressing the cerebellum while sparking feet to shuffle across dingy dance floors, the disco ball reflecting puddles of spilled beer while extinguished cigarettes sail across the soggy shoe muck and hollow proclamations of a Saturday night.
Album: Lightbulbs
For Fans Of: The Beta Band, The Blow, Kraftwerk
“I don’t write a narrative, like how Lou Reed might,” explains David Best, lead singer of Fujiya & Miyagi—a British band, not a Japanese duo—his accent thick and charming via telephone. “My writing style is more fragmented and cut up,” he says, resulting in bouncing “vocal gymnastics” that transform single words and random phrases (like “collected a capellas,” “photocopier,” and “three-thousand piece puzzle of raspberry ripple ice-cream”) into sparse yet captivating hooks, caressing the cerebellum while sparking feet to shuffle across dingy dance floors, the disco ball reflecting puddles of spilled beer while extinguished cigarettes sail across the soggy shoe muck and hollow proclamations of a Saturday night.
- 2/23/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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