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Death Metal Angola at Doc NYC

Coil 2014 Artist Jeremy Xido made a film called Death Metal Angola which will be showing at Doc NYC Festival on November 16th. The film has been getting some amazing press as of late:

“Jeremy Xido’s documentary surprises out of the gate with its understated, observational character exploring the textures of ruin and decay in war-torn Angolan cities like Luanda, Benguela, and Huambo.”- Time Magazine.

“A Cult classic in the making” – Huffington Post

“Absorbing, beautifully shot documentary… I predict a long festival life, if not more, for Xido’s superb film.” – IndieWire

Announcing COIL 2014

Today we are proud to announce the lineup of our 2014 COIL festival! The New York times covered the announcement in their Arts Beat section:

The festival, which runs Jan. 3 to 19, includes theater, dance and interdisciplinary works, and will be staged at sites around New York as P.S. 122 continues the renovations that have kept it out of its East Village home since 2011.

Neal Medlyn is Michael Jackson

Neal Medlyn’s final show in his pop star series, KING, where he plays Michael Jackson is playing at The Kitchen through Sunday- don’t miss it! He also commissioned a 9 foot tall sculpture for the show which he discusses below in our #RISK video. Sculpture. Photo by Dina Litovsky for The New York Times

Instagram InstaTIX

Over on our instagram, we’ve had an #instatix contest – snap a picture of our new #risk artwork that’s around the city for a chance to instantly win tickets to COIL14. We’ve received some excellent submissions, here’s the winner and some of our favs…

The RANDOMLY selected winner is… @projectmatt

Congrats, Matt! You can drink your beer in style with a PS122 pint glass at an upcoming COIL show.

Don’t Miss RoosevElvis

PS122 alumni The Team has a new show: in RoosevElvis Kristen Sieh and Libby King play Theodore Roosevelt and Elvis in what Ben Brantley calls “a spirited and insightful commentary on two archetypes of American masculinity”. RoosevElvis runs through November 3 at the Bushwick Starr.