SUBCULTURE inspired

After a few months of dedicated work it is time to celebrate the SUBCULTURE online platform with our first offline exhibition and launch party, SUBCULTURE presents: Margins.

"The Period Poem" by Dominique Christina: poet, author and feminist. http://www.dominiquechristina.com/

Dir: Alex Nicholson

In his body of work 'Crossings', artist Arko Datto was motivated by long-haul flights which would cross the Arabian Sea and descend into the Middle Eastern deserts. These images represent a civilization constructed by countless anonymous migrants from the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, who never got to see their spectacular collective efforts. Photographer Arko Datto, India. http://www.arkodatto.com/pages/crossings

"Sergei Paradjanov made four of the weirdest and most beautiful movies ever seen. An ethnic Armenian, Paradjanov was born in Soviet Georgia in 1924. This film, is an Armenian-language meditation on the life of the 18th-century poet-troubadour Sayat Nova. The film consists of a series of dreamlike tableaux, designed to "recreate the poet's inner world." Sergei Paradjanov, The Color of Pomegranates, 1968 (Source: The Guardian, Youtube) 

Jeremy Hutchinson, TOURIST ATTRACTION, 2009, photographic series.

In the 1990s, Swiss tobacco company F. J. Burrus hired name brand art house directors to make commercials for their Parisienne brand of cigarettes. The company gave free rein to the filmmakers both in terms of content and approach. And the talent they managed to attract is astonishing: David Lynch, the Coen Brothers, Emir Kusturica, Roman Polanski and, most puzzlingly, Jean-Luc Godard...

The struggle of the punk Community in sharia ruled Bandah Aceh

flickr.com/photos/jonathanhyde

Hito Steyerl, STRIKE. 2010, 28s, HDV.

A scene from The White Balloon (1995) by Iranian director, Jafar Panahi.

The Libidinal Archive: A Conversation with Akram Zaatari by Chad Elias

jonathansaruk.com