Directed by Guillaume Cagniard and in celebration of Record Store Day, Record Makers will be releasing an exclusive 7-inch by Sébastien Tellier & Caroline Polachek of Chairlift. It features the yet unreleased track “In The Crew Of Tea Time” which was recorded last year in Paris. Sébastien had met Caroline when Chairlift opened for his 2009 “Sexuality” US tour, and they always wanted to record a song together since then.

Lovely.

State of Cinema: Steven Soderbergh

Given all the incredible suffering in the world I wonder sometimes, what is this art for? I mean, if the collected works of Shakespeare can’t prevent genocide, then really, what is it for? Shouldn’t we be spending the time and resources alleviating the suffering and helping other people instead of going to movies and plays and art installations? When we did Oceans 13, the casino set used 60 thousand dollars of electricity every week. Now, how do you justify that? Do you justify it by saying “You know, the people that are putting out that electricity, they can watch the movie for two hours and be entertained”—except they probably can’t, because they don’t have any electricity, because we used it. [laughter] Then I think, what about all the resources spent on all the pieces of entertainment—what about the carbon footprint of getting me here? Then I think, why are you even thinking that way, and worrying about how many miles per gallon my car gets, when we have NASCAR, and monster truck pulls on TV? So what I finally decided was …art is simply inevitable. It was on the wall of a cave in France 30,000 years ago, and it’s because we are a species that’s driven by narrative. Art is storytelling, and we need to tell stories to pass along ideas and information, and to try andmake sense out of all this chaos.

In THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE, 17-year-old Charlie struggles to find the words to be true to himself…and his best friend. A wry, delicate take on first love and awakening sexuality from a young man’s perspective, THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE is written and performed by Kim Ho, under the mentorship of leading Australian playwright Tommy Murphy, and directed by Laura Scrivano, for The Voices Project from the Australian Theatre for Young People.

A wonderfully written and tenderly performed little short.