Here is a sneak preview of the upcoming documentary directed by Jeff Mizushima, Banality Attack, starring Les Sewing Sisters (Lun*na Menoh + Saori Mitome) with the added presence of Tosh Berman.
Les Sewing Sisters embark on a uniquely intimate tour across Japan, performing in the closet spaces of private homes. Narrated through Tosh’s observations, the film follows the journey from one household to another, as he serves as MC, interviewer, roadie, and occasional source of anxiety. Along the way, we meet the generous homeowners (and their closets) who make each show possible.
What could possibly go wrong?
L'Ange déchu (The Fallen Angel) by Tosh Berman
Tosh Berman on Bobby Beausoleil’s soundtrack to Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising
An engrossing work of autobiographical fiction about the relationship between an actress daughter and her larger-than-life father--the astonishingly assured debut novel of Sonya Walger, actress on Lost, For All Mankind, and more.
Lion is about an unlikely parent, more legend than presence in his daughter's life. He is a charismatic, dashing bon-vivant, a polo player, race car driver, cocaine addict, ex-con, pilot, and sky-diver. Born in the aftershocks of Argentina's greatest earthquake, he is like a minor god who comes down to earth in a grand manner, falling in all the ways there are to fall.
"It is hard to compete with adrenalin when you are a child," his daughter writes, now a mother herself to young children whose settled upbringing prompts her to consider her unconventional youth and the source of its chaos, her, by turns, loving, maddening, and magnetic father.
Lion is a double portrait told in a perpetual present tense that moves back and forth between present-day Los Angeles, where the narrator lives with her family and works as an actress, and the past of her peripatetic childhood, spent shuttling between her mother in England, boarding school, and her father and his successive wives in Buenos Aires and Lima.
Sonya Walger's stunning autobiographical debut is an emotionally acute palimpsest of a novel about a father and daughter, in which the drama and incident, love and tragedy that make up his life make up hers as well. The legend of his life and her distinctive and imaginatively charged telling of it make for an engrossing and unforgettable family saga.
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