Watch The Premiere Of "LOOK AT YOU" By Leo Luchini

Songwriting meets character development in a thrilling double music video about afterlife, injury, existentialism, and spaces of limbo (Sartre's No Exit). This black comedy-esque performance by auteur Leo Luchini features his new song "LOOK AT YOU" in a larger-than-life cinematic vision shot on a rainy Berlin day with a vintage Jaguar as a symbol of post-mortem motion. His new oeuvre is styled to match the dense clash of distorted metal guitar and slick trap syncopation: a filmic fantasy where deathly spectres are counterbalanced with the vastness of an angelic infinite afterlife. Son of a film director, this is Leo's third self-produced/co-directed music video for himself after his acclaimed video for "Bubblegum Creep", which launched his career and established his visionary scope.

As a music programmer of Berlin arts venue Trauma Bar und Kino, Luchini is a very active member of the underground music and performing arts communities. His infamous studio C-BLOCK has seen an array of visiting artists from Ms Boogie, Klein, Chico Sonido, Paris Aden, Moesha 13, Julianna Huxtable and Abyss X. Luchini's remix for trip-hop legend Tricky's recent album Lonely Guest came out this past June.

Director + Editor: Alexis Rummler with help of Nicolo Comotti, Miri Fenske and Charlambos Vlachodimos
Cinematography: Jan Fecke
Gaffer: Dominik Böhm
Electrician: Gonzalo Artabe with help of Philip Deutenbach and Nikita Fedosik
MUA: Ellen Eilzer + Sarah Hirth
Studio Light Engineer: Periklis Lazarou [fluxgeist]
Title Font Designer: Florencia Amodio
Colorgrade: Jonas Niemann
Camera gear and lenses: Steinmann Vintage @steinmann_vintage
Producer: Leo Luchini
Co-Producer: Jan Fecke

Featuring: Angel as Bystander, Erik as Thug Spectre 1, Dragos as Thug Spectre 2, Chris as Backseat Spectre 1, Davide as Backseat Spectre 2.

Watch Both Teasers Of "MIASMA", A Live Installation By Hannah Rose Stewart and Blackhaine @ Trauma Bar und Kino In Berlin

Drawing from Ligottian horror, MIASMA takes place in an unnamed seaside town in the artists’ home region of Northern England where a blackened volcanic hole opens below an abandoned car park. The work incorporates 3D design, neo-noir film, and the Japanese dance theatre of Butoh to unearth sensations of dread, mourning, and alienation.

MIASMA autopsies the corpse of post-industrial urbanity, carving out its wounds in unparalleled catharsis: an encounter with darkness that oscillates between the solemn and abrasive.

In Thomas Ligotti’s The Shadow at The Bottom of The World, a strange profusion surfaces and exhausts itself into the atmosphere, afflicting the air, vegetation, and people in a nearby town—ultimately turning a familiar place into an estranged version of itself. This duality becomes the subject of Hannah Rose Stewart and Blackhaine’s (Tom Heyes) debut audio-visual installation, MIASMA.

These uncanny dispositions frequently appear throughout MIASMA, within crowds of twisted and curled faces, as characters and dancers stagger past illegible signs of defunct businesses—a gesture to Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life: “You suppose that you could be in familiar territory … few landmarks. The tracks have numbers, not names. You can listen to them in any order. The point is to get lost.”

Live and recorded Butoh alchemize MIASMA’s provocations into a visceral, unnatural domain, forcing viewers to take part in the mutative rift that opens, not only across the towns, but also within the minds of its inhabitants and visitors.

Through the virtual and choreographic, MIASMA conducts its autopsy on the town’s post-industrial corpse, carving out its wounds in the act of unparalleled catharsis: an embrace and respondent transformation to darkness characterised by its balance of the intimate and abrasive.

Text by Matt Dell

MIASMA will be on view this Saturday, October 22 at 21:00 @ Trauma Bar und Kino Heidestraße 50, 10557 Berlin

Video by Hannah Rose Stewart
Graphic design by Jordi Theler
Ue5 development by Filip Setmanuk Soundtrack by Blackhaine, Croww, Rainy Miller

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CATALOGUE OF DISGUISE Presents Their New Collection & Fashion Film @ TRAUMA BAR UND KINO In Berlin

art direction, styling and fashion by Tanja Bombach
photography by Laura Schaeffer 
makeup by Viktoria Reuter
hair by Kosuke Ikeuchi
nails by Camilla Volbert
modeled by Peer Liening-Ewert, June, Susanne Engbo Andersen, Yi-Wei Tien, Alistair Wroe

On Wednesday, June 22, CATALOGUE OF DISGUISE will be premiering ALOW, a 28-minute film that captures the pervasive anxiety, loss of control, and trepidation lurking under the surface of three separate escapist encounters. It is an underground tale of slow horror.

Collections made for the film by Laura Gerte, Don Aretino and Tanja Bombach blend with choreography by Phoenix Chase-Meares and Jos McKain developed with ten dancers.

The exclusive screening will be hosted by CATALOGUE OF DISGUISE at TRAUMA BAR UND KINO, where the film was shot.

During the event, there will be an immersive sound installation inspired by the film and after the screening a DJ-set by the sound artist Simone Antonioni, who scored the film. The soundtrack will be released under the independent Berlin-based record label Verlag later this year including a remix by ZIúR.

Date: June 22
RSVP via CATALOGUE OF DISGUISE