FREE! 42 NOVEMBER 07 Prague’s city magazine The More Things Change… INTRO This month marks a bit of a change-over for Think Again. Starting November of this year, your favorite Prague Magazine addiction will no longer be bi-lingual, choosing instead to split into two versions, an all-English edition and an all-Czech. So, all you English speakers will be able to enjoy each and every word as you read about the Mezipatra gay and lesbian fi lm festival, a piece examining the work of Canadian writer/photographer/fi lmmaker Bruce LaBruce, an exclusive interview with Deerhunter, an entirely new 5X5 section, and a new monthly self introduction by promising local young artists. Things keep right on changing and it’s up to you to keep up! Enjoy and let us know what you think. 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 20-21 22-23 24-25 26-27 32-33 5 Bollywood Famufest URBANITE Keep a Breast Roxy, the clothing brand, presents a unique traveling exhibition called Keep a Breast to increase breast cancer awareness by having artists create plaster forms of the female torso that are then auctioned off . This event, appearing for the fi rst time ever in the Czech or Slovak Republics, features an exhibition of This year Famu festival is apparently reaching plaster casts of a variety of famous female artist and celebrities outside of its close-knit community to create a including DJ Ladida, singer Tonya Graves, photographer Sára show that goes beyond their usual fare. Famufest Saudková, singer Dara Rolinc, yachting champion Lenka Šmídová, traditionally presents the works of students and others. Their casts are decorated by local artists and studying at the Film Academy and brings together designers such as Jan Bačkovský, Krištof Kintera, Jan Saudek, not only local cinemaphiles, but all sorts of Vladimír Franz, among others and then auctioned at the event local creative for a fun-fi lled get-together. This December 7th at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Proceeds go year, Archa Theatre will turn into an epicenter of to the Association of Mammodiagnostic and Mammahelp. An audio-visual menagerie packed with dope concerts, online auction has been set up at www.galerie-vltavin.cz so that workshops and installations. The Pitchfork darlings everyone can take part. Moreover, you can participate in a contest Deerhunter will headline alongside hip hop tinged by building your own plaster of a bust (girlfriend, wife, babička, Al-Haca and Strapo, plus Noel and Please the Trees. chick you meet at Mecca, etc.) and sending its photo in. The best There will be a wide array of intriguing seminars, busts received through the contest will also be auctioned. For including a feature about a new breed of “analogue” more ino, a manual on working with plaster, or to donate to music videos, animated visuals on the internet, fi lm a very good cause, visit www.roxy.com/czech. posters, and lots more. 22/10–2/12 8–11/11/07 Czech and Slovak shopping centers Archa Theatre www.roxy.com/czech www.famufest.cz 6 Fringe Comedy Meet Factory nights Without question Prague has lacked decent space for art and music shows; URBANITE thus the opening of the 5,000 square meter warehouse near Smíchovské nádraží is a welcome addition to the city. A multi-purpose venue, Meet Factory, brainchild of artist David Černý, incorporates artist studios Cold winter nights might easily be warmed with a upstairs and has three large rooms downstairs, each of which is bit of hot comedy if you make your way over to the dedicated to arts, fi lm, music, dance and theatre. “The mission Fringe Comedy Nights this winter. Some of May’s of the Meet Factory cultural center is to connect Prague through best shows will be reappearing as well as some new international cooperation to the contemporary arts scene in acts well worth a watch. Bitchy gay comic Scott Europe and the world.” www.meetfactory.cz Capurro (Nov. 20th), Stephen Frost and his improv team (Nov. 27th), and the leather clad Fringe favorites Topping and Butch back for the sixth time on the 18th of December. Others to look for include Irish David O’Doherty making his Prague debut on the 4th of December. Enjoy. www.fringe.cz Filmasia Aero and Světozor cinemas will host the third annual Asian fi lm festival Filmasia. This year, the festival focuses on Hong Kong cinematography. Over the four days of the festival, Filmasia will show thirty Hong Kong fi lms, including Friday’s dedication to the fi lms of Johnnie To, one of the most successful directors in the Hong Kong fi lm industry for the last 18 years. Saturday night will be dedicated to Hong Kong’s take on the horror fi lm. Filmophiles should not miss this intriguing look at Hong Kong fi lmmaking that is far and away the best of its kind to hit Prague yet. 29/11–2/12/07 Aero, Světozor, www.fi lmasia.cz New New! Festival 2007 It’s easy to forget that there’s a whole world out there when you live in Prague. If you were to ditch your Prague-centrism for one gig in November, it should be for the annual New New! Festival which aims to present cutting edge electronic music and fi lm over the course of four days. This year’s highlights include shows by electronics master Murcof, the dark dubstep-grime act Milanese, laptop pop princess Tujiko Noriko, German Bodi Bill’s experimental techno pop, and fi lms by Michaela Grill, Josef Daberning and others. What’s more, there will also be a discussion on how to run a DIY label in Central Europe and an experimental opera show. 15–18/11/07 Brno, www.newnew.cz 7 DEERHUNTER THINK TANK Text by Lucia Udvardyová The fact that Deerhunter, one of the most captivating bands to emerge from the US indie scene, is coming to Prague was reason enough to have a chat with the band’s charismatic lead singer Bradford Cox about music, fl esh, and memories. When did you start making music? things that surround you, your fl esh, more on musical delivery than the types of When I was about eleven or twelve on consumer electronics, credit cards, things I was doing that were perceived as cheap tape recorders. anything we apply meaning to. shocking. Some people who were looking for a freak show might be let down. You had quite a tumultuous time Your latest EP Fluorescent Grey is recording your debut LP Turn It Up, a description used for the color of What was the best live show that Faggot. In retrospect, what does it a dead boy’s fl esh. What relevance you have played so far mean to you now? What memories does the body and fl esh have in and why? does it conjure? your work? That’s a tough question. There have There was a lot of chaos. I look back on I think at times I am attracted to visceral been many that I really enjoyed. I liked those times and see that we were really images. That song was just a sad way playing at the Seaport festival in NYC trying to turn a big mess into something of reminding myself that no matter because the wind was blowing in our worthwhile. It makes me miss my friend how beautiful someone is to me or faces. Justin. It also makes me realize how how obsessed I get with them, they diff erent I was then in some ways and eventually will rot and decay. You seem to elicit fairly extreme how, alternately, I haven’t changed at all. reactions from your fans – both Whirlyball 7”, your EP, was only during your live shows and after. What were the major diff erences available in a Georgia record shop How important is the feedback from between recording your fi rst LP and and it was also a ticket to your live your audience for you? the second one, Cryptograms? show. Why did you decide to make I elicit fairly extreme reactions from The addition of my best friend from this step? people just by going to the grocery high school, Lockett Pundt, was the We didn’t. We had very little to do store. I was sitting perched on a stoop in defi ning change. His guitar playing and with that whole thing. It was Henry’s Harlem yesterday and this old man came other experimental tendencies had a (Chunklet Magazine Founders) operation up to me and asked I was from space. lot to with it. Also the rhythm section all along. I don’t care about any of it anymore. I just of Moses and Josh became tighter and want to make songs that help people. more fl uid. Deerhunter is renowned for its live shows. How important are Your sound oscillates between What does “Cryptograms” stand live shows for you and how do you ambient and more song-based stuff , for? prepare for them? where do you see Deerhunter going Cryptograms had a lot to do with the I think my main point of concentration in future? idea that life is kind of encrypted in the now is putting on a show that depends Back to the 50s. 8 Deerhunter Famufest 8/11, Archa Theatre www.famufest.cz INFOBOX Deerhunter was formed in 2001 by singer Bradford Cox and drummer/keyboardist Moses Archuleta; the band was later joined by guitarists Colin Mee and Lockett Pundt and bassist Josh Fauver though the set-up of the band has changed several times throughout its existence and was also hit by the death of a band member.