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18/02/2026

Interview with Indonesian Film Director Wregas Bhanuteja: An Internal Creative Journey to Levitating

By Saelyx Finnq
Seen at Sundance 2026

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At Sundance 2026, Indonesian director Wregas Bhanuteja premiered Levitating (Para Perasuk), a highly imaginative film about a fictional trance party community in Indonesia. The Indonesian title, Para Perasuk, translates to “the possessors” or “spirit channelers” — a more literal description than the English Levitating.

The story centers around Bayu — played by Angga Yunanda — a young man determined to become a lead spirit-channeler in his community. The film’s narrative unfolds across the continuum of consciousness, taking viewers beyond the borders of the physical world through visually creative renderings of Bayu’s internal mental states and the trance realm he facilitates for participants. Bayu’s journey centers around a meditation on obsession, forgiveness, and what it really means to surrender.

READ THE ARTICLE:
https://redefinemag.net/2026/wregas-bhanuteja-director-interview-levitating-feature-film-sundance/

13/12/2025

Lentos Pardos perform at Mercado Musical in Oaxaca de Juárez, México.

19/11/2025

Isa Willinger Interview: NO MERCY Documentary Questions “Harshness” in Femme Filmmaking

New review by Saelyx Finna

View it at redefinemag.net

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“The truth is, women make the harsher films,” Kira Muratova once told a young Isa Willinger.

Such an observation might not be surprising coming from Muratova, the legendary Ukrainian filmmaker known for her convention-bucking embrace of the grotesque and the bizarre in cinema. Arguably one of the most original and formally daring filmmakers of the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, Muratova’s use of elliptical editing, fractured dialogue, and absurdist humanism expanded cinema’s language far beyond state-sanctioned realism. Some of her most celebrated films include The Long Farewell (1971), The Asthenic Syndrome (1989), and The Sentimental Policeman (1992). Today, her work rarely receives the recognition it deserves, as it was repeatedly suppressed by Soviet authorities for its perceived “formalism” and cynicism, and later marginalized by global film culture’s gendered biases, which tend to overlook women auteurs, especially those working outside the Western canon.

The bold statement struck a chord with Willinger, a young German documentarian who had to book a flight to Odessa and show up at Muratova’s doorstep, uninvited, in order to interview her heroine. Decades later, determined to address the dearth of films about women and nonbinary filmmakers, Willinger returned to Muratova’s provocation as the foundational inquiry of her fourth feature documentary, NO MERCY (2025)

NO MERCY had its North American premiere at DOC NYC on November 13th, 2025. It is seeking US distribution.

31/10/2025

Monyee Chau Artist Interview: Honoring Chinatowns, Ancestry & Activism

Read it online at REDEFINE magazine by Vee Hua 華婷婷 ~

https://redefinemag.net/2025/monyee-chau-artist-interview-chinatown-ancestry-seattle/

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EXCERPT:

Monyee Chau, a self-described “queer artist” and “restaurant baby,” hails from Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID), in a diverse part of the city where they still have deep connections and feel profound fondness.

While their lineage originally comes from Hong Kong and Taiwan, their family first set foot on U.S. soil in the 1970s, where they immigrated straight to the CID and lived in its historically-significant Kong Yick Building. Their father’s side also had three different restaurants and a convenience store: China Gate, which is now a grocery store; Atlas, on the corner of King and Maynard; and Hong Kong Bistro, which remains open to this day.

“When my grandpa started getting older, he sold the restaurant and had a little deli convenience store,” recalls Chau. “Growing up in the International District was really significant to me. I think it is fully the reason why I am a community organizer. It really helped me see the ways that food had people gather, or the ways that people would gather around food for celebration, for grieving, for just meeting.”

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29/10/2025

JJJJJerome Ellis Live Show Review: A Multi-Faceted Container to Center Disability Justice & Old Hymns

New review by Vee Hua

View it at redefinemag.net

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“Welcome! On this screen, I’ll be describing the sonic content of the music in this performance,” writes a slide of black text on a yellow background. The words project behind Virginia-based, disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American multidisciplinary artist JJJJJJerome Ellis, casting them and their large white sweatshirt in something like a yellow-hued silhouette. Later, they’ll tell us that this oversized white sweatshirt is made by Space, over there in Canada. The brand envisions a world where everyone – including those who stutter – are worth listening to. And here we are, to listen to someone that indeed stutters, and so, so much more.

This evening, a local music shop called Dusty Springs has lent Ellis a gigantic, trapezoidal stringed instrument, sweetly named the dulcimer. It takes up half the stage of the Seattle all-ages venue, The Vera Project , adding to an atmosphere which in general is casual and cozy. Rows of chairs sparsely populate the venue, concluding with a final row of single-seater sofas towards the back. Something only a DIY venue could do, really.

Ellis tells us they’ll show us the beast of a dulcimer afterwards, so as to not mess up the position of the microphone – and then they continue to talk to the crowd, like an educator of sorts. Ellis is known for their work around disability due to their stuttering, but they also endeavor to provide access points for others who may take in information differently.

They begin by describing the entire setup of the room with a “visual description,” which is a verbal description of things that are happening, much like some of much may have experienced virtually during Zoom meeting. The purpose? So that those who may be limited in sight might understand better what is taking place on the stage.

29/10/2025

JJJJJerome Ellis Live Show Review: A Multi-Faceted Container to Center Disability Justice & Old Hymns

New review by Vee Hua

View it at redefinemag.net

💕💕💕

“Welcome! On this screen, I’ll be describing the sonic content of the music in this performance,” writes a slide of black text on a yellow background. The words project behind Virginia-based, disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American multidisciplinary artist JJJJJJerome Ellis, casting them and their large white sweatshirt in something like a yellow-hued silhouette. Later, they’ll tell us that this oversized white sweatshirt is made by Space, over there in Canada. The brand envisions a world where everyone – including those who stutter – are worth listening to. And here we are, to listen to someone that indeed stutters, and so, so much more.

This evening, a local music shop called Dusty Springs has lent Ellis a gigantic, trapezoidal stringed instrument, sweetly named the dulcimer. It takes up half the stage of the Seattle all-ages venue, The Vera Project , adding to an atmosphere which in general is casual and cozy. Rows of chairs sparsely populate the venue, concluding with a final row of single-seater sofas towards the back. Something only a DIY venue could do, really.

Ellis tells us they’ll show us the beast of a dulcimer afterwards, so as to not mess up the position of the microphone – and then they continue to talk to the crowd, like an educator of sorts. Ellis is known for their work around disability due to their stuttering, but they also endeavor to provide access points for others who may take in information differently.

They begin by describing the entire setup of the room with a “visual description,” which is a verbal description of things that are happening, much like some of much may have experienced virtually during Zoom meeting. The purpose? So that those who may be limited in sight might understand better what is taking place on the stage.

09/10/2025

Brandon Bye Artist Interview: MORE PAINT Series Explores the True Reality of Seattle

Interview by Navi Esparza
for REDEFINE magazine - https://redefinemag.net/2025/brandon-bye-artist-interview-photography-graffiti-art-seattle/

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With his debut coffee table book, MORE PAINT, Seattle photographer Brandon Bye takes an expansive look at Seattle’s landscape and ever-changing history. Filled with breathtaking still photographs, MORE PAINT tackles difficult subject matter such as poverty and graffiti but does not aim to provide answers. Rather, it raises questions for the reader, to challenge their perception of their worldview about the society we live in.

“MORE PAINT isn’t about condemning or condoning. It’s about noticing,” writes Bye, in MORE PAINT. “Looking closely at what’s happening on the surface and beneath it—how visibility, labor, and survival play out in public space, and how people, especially those without power, adapt to systems that are often rigged against them. Everyone’s trying to survive. Some are just better positioned to profit from the mess.”

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The opening night for MORE PAINT next gallery show takes place in Seattle at Vermillion, on Thursday, February 12, 2026, as a part of Capitol Hill art walk. The book is available for pre-sale.

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29/08/2025

Seattle Journalists Condemn Israel’s Killings of Palestinian Members of The Press

We, the undersigned journalists and media workers in the Seattle area, condemn Israel’s continued attacks on members of the press. On Monday, Israeli airstrikes hit Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists: Reuters photojournalist Hussam al-Masri, Al Jazeera photojournalist Mohammad Salama, Associated Press freelancer Mariam Abu Daqqa, photographer Moaz Abu Taha, and Middle East Eye freelancer Ahmad Abu Aziz. This comes just weeks after Israel bombed a clearly marked media tent, killing several media workers, including prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif.

And those journalists are far from anomalies. According to the Committee To Protect Journalists, at least 197 journalists and media workers have died in Israel and occupied Palestine between Oct. 7, 2023 and Aug. 25, 2025. That death toll tops all other wars. In fact, more journalists have died covering Israel’s assault on Gaza than in the U.S. Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Yugoslav Wars, the War in Afghanistan, and the ongoing Ukraine War combined.

It is clear that Israel is targeting the press in an attempt to suppress the truth. Palestinian journalists have been systematically killed, harassed, censored, and silenced, all the while Israel has blocked international journalists from entering Gaza. We stand in solidarity with Palestinian journalists, who have shown extraordinary courage in continuing their critical work through bombardment, forced displacement, starvation and the genocide of their people. Their voices matter. Their lives matter. We urge fellow media professionals, institutions, and press freedom advocates around the world to join us in using their platforms to call for the protection of journalists.

We also urge reporters to learn from the work of Palestinian journalists by humanizing Palestinians in their coverage, checking their anti-Arab bias and Islamophobia, and reporting fairly on local stories related to community members who are standing in solidarity with Gaza.

29/08/2025

SHARING THIS CALL FOR WRITERS on behalf of our buds at !!!

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A&A will focus on artists of color and prioritize contributors of color to write, photograph and create all of the storytelling elements in order to properly honor the beliefs and unique heritage and lifeways that are shared in each step of the process.

Art is vital to revolutionary practice and movements and we believe people need to be reminded of their power more than ever right now.

This project is for those who collected Seattle’s own Quincy Jones’ VIBE magazine. It’s for the new generations of young artists coming up who are reaching back for more tactile forms of art like records and magazines. It’s for the featured artists and contributing creatives who share a reverence for the creative vision and collective resistance.

If you know of a poc creative that would like to contribute or someone you think would be a good fit for a feature, please reach out at link in BIO over at !!!

17/07/2025

elijah jamal asani Artist Interview: Finding Divinity in Land & Sky

Interview by Vee Hua
for REDEFINE magazine .com -
🍃 https:/bit.ly/redefineelijah

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When I first came across the work of multi-hyphenate artist and educator, elijah jamal asani, it was through film. A short film that he made for a video poetry film festival, to be exact. And what struck me immediately – before I even dove deeply into his full body of work – was the fact that asani transmitted a vibe, right from the very start. Whether through the way that he presented his name (all lowercase, and quite visually-pleasing) or through the beautifully-crafted titles of his projects, it felt obvious that asani is the type of artist who carefully considers his works from numerous artistic and conceptual angles before ever putting them out into the world.

Thus, when I received an email from AKP Recordings introducing me to asani’s second full-length album, ,,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,,, it felt obvious. It felt obvious that, of course asani was also a musician, and of course his musicianship incorporates numerous elements that I have come to associate with his artistry. The sonic worlds he creates are poetic, moving, considerate, ethereal, and heavy on their adoration of nature.

According to asani, the reason that all of his work operates in the same aesthetic universe can be attributed to intuitive ebbs and flows.

“I feel like it all becomes cohesive because it happens in eras or steps,” he comments. “When we’re all young, we are just exploring different art styles and trying to see what touches us the most. I’ve been kind of going through that phase non-stop since I was a little.”

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Record out now on AKP Recordings - featuring Aaron White

09/06/2025

.film DOCUMENTARY FILM REVIEW: The Man Behind the NDN Country Meme - by Vee Hua

Beginning with a light-hearted tone that introduces the Internet meme origins of the word “skoden,” the documentary then radiates outwards to encompass a larger world of mental health, alcoholism, and the traumatic legacy of residential schools that impact Canada’s Indigenous communities. At the center of the film by Blackfoot director Damien Eagle Bear is Pernell Thomas Bad Arm, a man also from his same reserve of Blood Nation, who — prior to becoming a viral sensation — lived a life fairly unnoticed other than by people in his immediate community in the small city of Lethbridge.

Lethbridge, located in the province of Alberta and with a population of just over 100,000, is a border town on the northeastern edge of the Blood (Kanai) Nation reserve. Like all border towns, Lethbridge is constantly the site of intractable social problems and misunderstandings between its Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. Using Bad Arm its main subject, explores how one man’s life can represent the microcosm in the macrocosm, and how an seemingly anonymous meme subject can be known by his family and friends as kind and humorous, even if the system failed him time and time again.

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was first viewed at imagineNATIVE 2025 in June 2025!

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