Australian director Andrew Piggott and Doan Phuong Ha's latest short, Le Thi Quy(The Cat's Mother), tells the story of one Ho Chi Minh City resident who opens her home as a refuge for the city's cats. Read more on NOWNESS - http://bit.ly/2pn8tOC

Budapest-based artist Nadja Andrasev’s animation, A nyalintás nesze (The Noise of Licking), tells the story of a voyeur cat, a women with an excessive love for plants, and a peculiar visitor in a fur hat.

A graduate of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Andrasev’s animations are darkly playful, often themed on the stranger side of human behaviors.

The second part of artist and filmmaker Simon Roberts’ project, Sight Sacralization: (Re)framing Switzerland, is currently on show at London’s Saatchi Gallery. Robert’s returns to Switzerland in the height of summer to investigate the nature of individual and collective identity. Read more on NOWNESS - http://bit.ly/2qHkGj2

Marie Schuller takes inspiration from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks in 1-800-Vision-Star, a new film for Oxydo. For their latest collection, the avant-garde eyewear brand have teamed with New York-based designer Francis Bitonti, known for high tech projects with the likes of Dita Von Tease. Read more on NOWNESS - http://bit.ly/2p8SLqd

Filmmaking collective Manson take to the French brutalist buildings of Ricardo Bofill and Emile Aillaud for the latest release from Barcelona-based Màquina Total— AKA Virgili Jubero— taken from his debut album, Estàtua. Read more on NOWNESS - http://bit.ly/2pwdcAG