jason_lester

So excited to announce my next film, Replay, a very personal endeavor made with friends and loved ones. Coming soon <3

New song + music video "Punching the Flowers" out now everywhere. "Punching the Flowers" is a song about stagnation and the feeling of being imprisoned by The Known. And about the damage done when someone ventures deeper into the unknown. deathcabforcutie.ffm.to/punchingtheflo…

Thrilled to finally share my three-years-in-the-making set report from the new FACES OF DEATH. I get granular! A taste:

Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei photographed by Jason Lester for Cultured Magazine

"Riptides" is about the challenge of dealing with personal struggles as the world around us experiences tragedy & loss on an unfathomable scale. And how when these two elements intertwine themselves in our psyches, it feels utterly paralyzing. deathcabforcutie.ffm.to/riptides

We’re thrilled to announce our new album 'I Built You A Tower’, out June 5 on @AntiRecords. New song “Riptides” out now w/ a music video directed by @Jason_Lester. Check out “Riptides” + pre-order ‘I Built You A Tower’: deathcabforcutie.ffm.to/ibyat Album cover by @PhibDoesThis

Stephen Sanchez kicks off his next era with new single, “Sweet Love,” out now.

Afterlife has been nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock- we know how much you HATE the video so you should definitely NOT waste any time voting your head off to get us that W. 😏 You get 10 votes per category per day, until voting closes on September 5th. Today you’ll get double the votes too (20), so if you must, go cast your votes in the link below. mtv.com/event/vma/vote…

#VMAs Best Rock Nominees: Coldplay – “All My Love” Evanescence – “Afterlife (From the Netflix Series ‘Devil May Cry’)” Green Day – “One Eyed Bastard” Lenny Kravitz – “Honey” Linkin Park – “The Emptiness Machine” Twenty One Pilots – “The Contract”

The “Afterlife” music video is out now! Big thanks to @netflix , Jason Lester, our amazing crew and everyone who came together to make this happen. youtu.be/mTduyC2zPXg?si…

Evanescence’s "Afterlife," the music video. Dir. Jason Lester. Who’s ready for DEVIL MAY CRY Season 2?

Laufey Begins Her Next Album Era With 'Silver Lining' Single and Music Video variety.com/2025/music/new…

Silver Lining is out now 🎭

David Lynch - what can one even say? A titan of cinema, now cinema history. No one ever did or ever will do it like him. Farewell maestro.

David Lynch is Forever

David Lynch (1946-2025) 🖤

not Lynch's movie, i know, but god, what a sendoff

@ScreenSlate Saw 11

Christmas Eve in Miller's Point, Tyler Taormina's new film, is both an instant holiday classic and one of the most comprehensively original recent movies, an aesthetic and emotional jolt; it opens today; word from next week's issue: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned. Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future. Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development. The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital. And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative. So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

New work with @laufey featuring Bill Murray to expedite your Halloween to Xmas transition