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To celebrate the spookiest season of the year, here at GATA we’ve unpacked some of the coldest cult classics to emerge from the underground film scene. Deranged butchers, sci-fi/ slasher hybrids and enough blood to corrupt even the purest of minds. You’ll need to take a bath after watching these gory classics.
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Photography, a powerful tool and time capsule that transcends generations. One name worth mentioning in this artistic field is Masayoshi Sukita.
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British cinema is often overlooked by its flashier brother Hollywood, but at GATA we know this is a sin in the grandest sense of the word.
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Many underrate a brand’s power to shape talent and no other modern brand exemplifies this phenomenon better than the Japanese giant, Comme des Garçons and its connections to three of the most important designers working today.
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What’s the reason for a human being saying goodbye to his family and all his possessions to live a life in a poor cult? Today, we look back exactly 25 years into the history of one of the most dangerous cults in the United States: Heaven's Gate.
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Fashion curator, singer and electronic music producer—Aya Gloomy is a Tokyo-based multi-disciplinary artist who is constructing her own imaginative and multi-coloured world, free from the ennui of everyday life.
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GATA magazine caught up with Vera Strondh, a 23-year-old queen, to find out the true reality of the world of drag.
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Sylwana Zybura and Tomas Toth are a Berlin-based artistic collective called CROSSLUCID that reconstructs these ideas, blurring the line between humans and technology to demonstrate that nothing is inherently what it seems.
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From Gustave Dore’s depictions of Andromeda chained to the rock, to British author Alex Comfort’s “sex manual”—The Joy of Sex, bondage has been an omnipresent feature in the annals of sex history and art.
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Now more than ever, the illuminating nature of photojournalism is needed. For Magnum Photos, this illustrative power is central to their philosophy. Their mission is simple; to record the human condition in a compassionate way, while maintaining the artistic integrity of their photographers.
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Producer, director, rapper, composer, label boss—there seems to be very little that LA musician Flying Lotus touches that doesn’t turn to gold. The artist has combined elements of his childhood, such as glitchy video game samples, west coast gangster rap with UK electronic music and Japanese anime.
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Like a kaleidoscopic fusion of cultural influences, multidisciplinary artist Manuela Soto Sosa has spent the last 10 years forging her own unique path in the artistic world. Drawing inspiration from an array of different sources, such as Berlin tattoo parlours, to the cutesy figures of 90s anime shows like Sailor Moon…
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The first mention of the word “vampire” in literature was from the short story The Vampyre in 1819 by author John William Polidori. The story was taken from a tale told by Lord Byron himself during a contest between Mary and Percy Shelly and Polidori.
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Brought up on the Japanese exploitation cinema of the 1970s, film makers such as Quentin Tarantino owe a huge amount to these hyper violent and sexually charged gore features.
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Chance encounters, an aversion to the rules and free-form writing are all ingredients that have formed the cinematic oeuvre of Hong Sang-soo. While essays have been written in attempts to deconstruct the code that is his body of work—in reality, his work is much more simple.
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In the early 1980s, the Japanese economy was booming; the miraculous post-war economic recovery was in full swing and society was at the mercy of a decadent fever.
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00 is a London-based multidisciplinary artist who is using the innovative and constantly evolving space of the digital “metaverse” as the nucleus for her own creations. Through the use of performance art, 3D rendering and video games, she is exploring the blurry line between the real and the constructed, between authenticity and fiction.
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In the depths of the early days of the internet, underwater-artist Manabu Koga found a community that shared his interest for the combination of cute girls and diving equipment. Since then he has cultivated a focused aesthetic and artistic career that encompasses all of the interests that he has held since he was a young child.
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