LARS VON TRIER Soundtrack: Burning Down the House

While Bowie explored the avant-garde and distilled these ideals for the mainstream, Von Trier does something similar, but rather in a more twisted and dark manner. He takes some of the most harrowing and controversial of subject matters: depression, the apocalypse, rape, murder and deviant sexuality and crafts them into a deceitful set of hors d’oeuvre that we line up to consume.

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Art, CinemaJames Elliott
SALEM’S ‘WITCHES’ - The Real Story Behind Folktales

Between February 1692 and May 1693 one of the most notorious "Witch Hunts" took place in a small village of Salem, Massachusetts (now known as Danvers), where more than 150 people were tried for alleged witchcraft: The Salem’s Trials. But what was the real story behind all these trials and why did these events cause hysteria in the New World

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CultureGATA Magazine
The Sonic Cosmology of UNDER THE SKIN

Film scores are one of those things that are often overlooked by the casual viewer, a background blend of sounds, conjuring nothing in the imagination, something to exist simply as a replacement for silence. However, every now and then, a special combination of both perceptive vision and inspired music can help a film transcend into a magnificent and memorable one.

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Cinema, ArtJames Elliott
Butoh, Dance of Darkness

Describing Butoh is a hard task. Not because there is lack of information on it, but because there is no conscious thinking in it, it’s more than a technical form or art, it transcends the human dimension, it's the dance of the unconscious.

It's just soul, spirit.

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SHOOP: FROM MADRID TO TOKYO. A GATA MAGAZINE EDITORIAL

Fashion and music have long been partners in crime. Influencing and informing one another to the point where it isn’t clear where the genesis point is. The Madrid-Tokyo based brand Shoop understand this connection very well, fusing elements from 90s hip hop with 2000s music videos and creating a look that is both fresh and exciting while simultaneously inciting a reverence and respect for the past.

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The Violence of Memory: Francis Bacon

From the early days of Bacon’s artistic career, critics were repulsed by his imagery: disfigured teeth, mutated limbs and soulless backdrops. Yet while other artists around him were exploring social movements and revolution, Francis Bacon was taking a more introspective approach. Diving into the depths of his unconscious to find an outlet for his darker desires.


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ArtJames Elliott
RAISED BY WOLVES by Jim Goldberg

Raised by Wolves is a photojournalist book that the American photographer Jim Goldberg published in 1995 and chronicles the lives of different runaways and homeless teenagers as they groped for lives coloured by addiction, abuse and violence, in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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PhotographyGATA Magazine
Culture Clash: An interview with LĒO.

LĒO is a Belgium-based brand that was established in 2016 by artistic director Leonneke Derksen (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium) and founder Matthias Medaer. The team met in Paris, while gaining experience at fashion houses like Balenciaga and Carven.

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FashionJames Elliott
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN: Satire for the LSD generation

In a way The Holy Mountain is the gateway drug into experimental cinema. It’s a decadent, hallucinogenic rollercoaster of a film, that’s tongue-in-cheek attitude never takes itself too seriously. Yet, what can this film tell us about society? Does it still hold some relevance in the post-digital world that we find ourselves in?

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Eclecticism from Tuscany. The sweetest darkness: LUCA PISCOPO

Like a jawbreaker, Luca Piscopo’s creations slowly dissolve before your very eyes, leaving a lasting taste. A creator in several fields, the artist behind ‘Candy Oscuro’ leaves their trademark in every project they work on. From goth baths and sleep paralysis nightmares, we can get closer to the root of their identity.

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THE DOMINION OF KINK: GATA meets Lanee Bird

A self-proclaimed voyeur and pervert, NYC-based photographer Lanee Bird is fearless and unrelenting in her creation of art. Drawing influences from queer and fetish culture while engulfing it all in a hazy 80/90s aesthetic, Lanee Bird has made a big impact on the GATA team. What follows is a conversation with the artist in which we explore the convergence between these special subcultures and dive into the depths of this mysteriously kinky mind.

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PhotographyGATA Magazine