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10 Dec

Introducing the CIRCA x Dazed Class of 2022 filmmakers

Introducing the CIRCA x Dazed Class of 2022 filmmakers
The 30 finalists could have their work exhibited on London’s Piccadilly Lights and other huge screens across the globe, and one will probably be chosen by a panel of industry leaders to receive the £30,000 #CIRCAECONOMY prize Back in June, Dazed and the digital arts platform CIRCA put out an open call for rising creatives – from filmmakers, to artists and activists, to performers, poets, and gamers – to have their work showcased on large-scale screens across the globe. Now, the list of recent media creators who made it into the CIRCA x Dazed Class of 2022 has finally been unveiled. After receiving greater than 1,000 artwork submissions, and watching greater than 40 hours...
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10 Dec

Laurel Charleston Dazed 100 | Dazed

Laurel Charleston Dazed 100 | Dazed
Having trained and worked as a classical music conductor, creating boundary-pushing make-up looks for Doja Cat perhaps wasn’t essentially the most obvious next step for Laurel Charleston. But that’s exactly what she’s done. Fast forward to today and he or she is a daily collaborator of Doja’s, liable for the star’s recent awe-inspiring, blockbuster make-up including the No Face-esque painted look and the swirling white patterns that spread across her face like a sea creature.But it surely’s not only her work with celebs proving her Instagram bio – “Turning makeup into superb art” – true. Using her own face as a canvas for mind-bending paintings, Charleston creates a gradual stream of optical illusions and experimental graphic looks, plus painstaking recreations...
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9 Dec

Cyshimi Dazed 100 | Dazed

Cyshimi Dazed 100 | Dazed
For transdisciplinary artist Cyshimi, nail art isn’t just decoration that adorns the body. As a substitute, their ornate nail sculptures, which extend out from the fingers in startling, unconventional forms, are augmentations that alter and shape the performativity of the body. Born and raised in Brazil to Taiwanese and Chinese immigrant parents, Cyshimi grew up feeling different, and their art became a strategy to work through these experiences of alienation. Spanning sculpture, digital art, installation and performance, Cyshimi’s creations explore themes of ancestry and identity and lift questions of hegemonic beauty standards. Echoes of the long pinky fingernail, a convention amongst Chinese men which...
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8 Dec

13 movies to observe this Halloween, in line with

13 movies to observe this Halloween, in line with
If the terrors of on a regular basis life aren’t enough TOKYO GORE POLICE (2008) Tokyo Gore Police (2008) is Yoshihiro Nishimura’s splatterific directorial debut a few futuristic, samurai sword-wielding police officer whose mission is to seek out “engineers” – freaky mutants whose bodies have morphed into lethal firearms. Featuring penis canons, vagina dentatas and acid-spewing breasts, it’s gooey, hilarious and delightfully gory. (GY) FEAR STREET TRILOGY (2021) The Fear Street Trilogy (2021) is THEE most iconic horror series on Netflix. It only got here out in 2021 and didn't get the like it deserved. The series has three movies based...
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