James Balmont
Writer at Freelance
🎹🎸 Music x @Swim_Deep ✍🏼📚 bylines x @Guardian, @BBC_Culture, @BFI, @Dazed, @AnOtherMagazine *probs tweeting about ambient music and foreign films*
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3 weeks ago |
vice.com | James Balmont
Ancient cave paintings in Kona, Hawaii will tell you that early Polynesians invented surfing over 1,000 years ago. By the mid-20th century, it had become a vibrant subculture in hotspots like California and Western Australia, and soon youngsters the world over were falling in love with the image of toned, tanned dudes and dudettes repeatedly tumbling into the sea. You’d expect most of these places to be vaguely compatible with such a lifestyle.
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1 month ago |
dazeddigital.com | James Balmont
Following a month-long retrospective in March of one of the movement’s most beloved filmmakers –Cannes 2000 Best Director winner Edward Yang (Yi Yi) – the BFI continues its deep dive into one of East Asian cinema’s most remarkable filmmaking movements this April with Myriad Voices: Reframing Taiwan New Cinema.
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1 month ago |
inverse.com | James Balmont
In the rocky wastelands of fictional Wester Island, lightning strikes as a volcano erupts in the distance. Here, a gnarled beast armed with horns and tusks —clad with a tough red-brown hide and boasting a flamboyant frilled spine — awakens with an otherworldly roar. This is Jiger, a fearsome rhino-triceratops monster capable of both flight and telekinesis, who can reduce men to ash and bones through the virtue of her “Super Ultra Wave” ray.
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1 month ago |
telegraph.co.uk | James Balmont
By the time Aum's membership peaked at an estimated 11,400 in Japan in 1995, and 40,000 in Russia following a successful expansion following the fall of the Soviet Union, the cult had secretly murdered the family of anti-Aum lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto.
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1 month ago |
dazeddigital.com | James Balmont
Director Shozin Fukui shares the secrets behind the no-budget dystopian classic, which takes the bones of the 1940 Disney story and vomits them onto the streets of a near-future Japan7 Images In a nightmarish institution in industrial neo-Tokyo, a cybernetic sex slave is subjected to a power-drill lobotomy after failing to satisfy two handlers during an orgy.
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RT @JamesBalmont: I’ve got a big feature in the new @CrackMagazine exploring how Japan’s ‘80s ambient & environmental music has found new r…
I’ve got a big feature in the new @CrackMagazine exploring how Japan’s ‘80s ambient & environmental music has found new relevance in a present-day - world descending into unchecked chaos. Interviews w/ icons Inoyamaland, @TakashiKokubo & Yumiko Morioka! @MetronRecords @TonalUnion https://t.co/HQDqS1QUYv
RT @JamesBalmont: Very proud to share some new work this month via a pair of video essays included on the @thirdwindowfilms and @arrowvideo…