Oliver Franklin Anderson Presents The Night Country: Stories of Sleep Paralysis

Oliver Franklin Anderson is a local Los Angeles filmmaker and purveyor of digitized motion. Oliver's last film, Hollow, earned himself entry into notable film festivals, such as the Slamdance Film Festival, and additional accolades.

Oliver's latest project consists of a web based collective of horror shorts titled The Night Country: Stories of Sleep Paralysis. The series as a whole is inspired by hallucinations experienced during sleep paralysis. In Oliver's words: "While The Night Country is a series as a whole, the individual episodes are designed to stand alone as highly unique, short horror films". Additionally, he describes sleep paralysis as, "a glitch in the natural flow between sleep stages, causing dreams to blur into reality. Sleep paralysis is never a pleasant experience, causing terror in those experiencing it and vividly unsettling, if not terrifying hallucinations."

The first film in the series is named A Study In Blue and debuts Shelby Slayton as the actress. Shelby Slayton happens to be one of the "Slay" elements in Slayzinger Creative.  Along with Oliver Franklin Anderson directing, the creative team consists of Robert Allaire composing music and Frank L. Anderson as sound designer. The film consists of the creative nature inspired eeriness and dark, high contrast filtering that is synonymous with Oliver's film styling.  Below is A Study In Blue.

In order to create and produce the subsequent episodes of the The Night Country series, Oliver has put together a Kickstarter campaign for funding assistance. Consider donating to the production of a visually stunning and truly unique web series.

How to Dress Well "& It Was U" Single

Brooklyn's very own '90s lo-fi R&B replicator, How to Dress Well, is slated to follow-up his stark 2010 debut album, Love Remains, with the release of Total Loss, out September 18th on Acéphale Records. This cut, "& It Was U", is the newest single, and if it's indicative of the rest of the album, the lo connected to that -fi is here to stay, albeit with a little more flare. This propulsive track is indebted to the style of the golden age of R&B - the Age Ain't Nothing But a Number days - and contains a similar swing to R. Kelly's early production work. "& It Was U" grows wider and crisper as it progresses, slowly picking up scraps of R&B nostalgia with every snap beat, while Tom Krell continues to one-up himself vocally - reaching higher and higher with each rotation. 

Check out How to Dress Well on tour this fall. Dates here.

Here's the previously released cut from Total Loss, "Cold Nites".