Sundance Film Festival’s NEXT FEST 2016 Programming

This year's LA offshoot will feature six films, music video premieres, VR and more

Now in its fourth year in LA, the Sundance Film Festival’s NEXT FEST once again offers an outlet for independent artists across many mediums—and for audiences craving acclaimed cinematic programming. For those who can’t make it to Park City, Utah in the winter, it’s become an offshoot that allows access to the festival’s NEXT section. That said, there’s also a slew of original work making …

Evolution of the Female Orgasm

In a recent study by The Journal of Experimental Zoology, authors Mihaela Pavlicev and Gunter Wagner look back 150 million years to better understand the development of the female orgasm. For men, an orgasm directly coincides with ejaculation—meaning it is more or less encouragement to pass along semen. For women, however, it’s more complex—as an orgasm is not a requirement for fertilization. The authors propose …

Cairobi: Lupo

London-based psych quartet Cairobi’s woozy song “Lupo” has received an equally fun music video treatment. Artist and illustrator Sebaldo provides surreal animation—lots of two-headed and four-eyed creatures abound—to illustrate the song’s themes of “change,” “transformation,” “becoming something else”—all of which reminds us of more carefree, younger times where our world made sense in colored markers.