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The latest documentary by Ivan Olita is a piece documenting the far reaches of the southern state of Oaxaca where, in the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into males and females. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, which they call "muxes" - men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned limbo between the two genders.

A master of cinematic references, Francesco Vezzoli puts on a lavish performance for his final turn as NOWNESS's artist-in-residence. Appropriating his own work, a tapestry of Greta Garbo hung last year in his MOCA retrospective, and based on Italian Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello's play As You Desire Me, Vezzoli makes self-representation and entertainment meld in Milan's heady nightclub, Plastic. "The culture of performance is very important to me," says the artist, who enlisted the club's vaunted drag performers for the 21st-century reenactment.

The Official Elvis impersonator of Las Vegas has to confront his identity and sexuality as his public persona slowly fades away.

Beneath her iconic billboards on Sunset Boulevard, you'll find Angelyne cruising the streets in her custom pink corvette. Years before the social media phenomenon, she paved the way for today's famous-for-being-famous celebrities. Amazing Angelyne divulges into her past and out onto the streets of Los Angeles.

Success was a long time in coming for the soft-spoken, gray-haired Boston native Mark Mahoney. Known for both his pioneering artistry and high profile clients, ranging from Tupac to David Beckham, Lana Del Rey and Jhonny Depp - the latter of whom he starred opposite in the critically acclaimed Black Mass- he was Introduced to the art of tattooing as a teenager and spent years studying the work of artists in Rhode Island and New York, trying to learn their secrets. Working hard, Mahoney toiled in other tattoo salons before opening his own shop in 1985 - only to lose it within four years to a crippling heroin addiction. He later moved to Los Angeles where he finally created The Shamrock Social Club, defined as "Where the Elite and the Underworld Meet." It's that unique and inspiring combination of high-art and low culture that captures the Warrior Spirit that identifies Mahoney's take on life. In a surreal man-versus-myth-style documentary, Wonder Mark, director Ivan Olita captures the artist and actor inking french troubadour Johnny Hallyday while he talks hopes and fears and LA stories.

Can't Nobody Else Love You is a documentary that takes a dreamlike plunge into the freedoms, uncertainties and radical creative expressions of New York City's youth. In Can't Nobody Else Love You, the surreal and loose-limbed non-fiction film follows 9 individuals as they wander through a layered narrative that combines vérité footage from the street of New York interspersed with vividly staged scenes that ultimately provide a sense of dislocation yet uncanny attachment. Can we be loved if we don't love ourselves first?

Director Ivan Olita unpacks the creation myth behind the dormant volcano sat in the world's largest salt flat by traveling to Bolivia and documenting the life of Nico, the film's protagonist, who has lived and worked in the Uyuni Star flats all his life. A local sculptor that inhabits a land mostly seen as a touristic destination. As he hacks away at the salt rock with a well-worn ax to source material for his sculptures, he steadily chews coca leaves-his labor becoming a form of self-induced meditation.

In Contra Daemones, Ivan Olita takes us on an ethereal journey to Siena to meet with Father Raffaele, an appointed exorcist of the Catholic church. Father Raffaele iterates an elegant and theological understanding of the nature of demonic possessions, how they differ from our preconceived notions, and our need to employ the agency of free will to distance ourselves from the internal divisions of the soul. The take away is refreshing assessment of doctrine: though there be intense evil, there are no monsters coming off of the closet. There are only choices.

While Cuban skaters struggle to get their hands on new equipment and dedicated ramps, this hasn't deterred one skateboarding community thriving in the suburbs of Havana. At the forefront of this is skateboarder Yojani Perez Rivera, who shares the sport's role in a changing social and political landscape, in this film directed by Ivan Olita. In Yojani's words he says, "No matter what happens, the skateboard is my airplane, the street is my philosophy, my shelter"

Director Ivan Olita unveils the desolate and unimaginable reality of ALMA's existence in the Atacama Dessert. ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/Sub-millimeter Array) is an international partnership between Europe, the US, Canada and several countries consisting of 66 telescopes, making it the most expensive ground-based telescope in operation. Listen as ALMA's Deputy Program Manager, Daniel Espada, divulges, "By going to the past, we don't only know about the future but also about our origins, what we are, who we are and where we come from... How the elements of our body were built." The film premiered exclusively on AMUSE.CO.

about to show the sacrifice, commitment, and determination required to become a top-ranked competitive pole dancer.

Be it at an art fair, a fashion party or sitting curtsied at many many NBA games, James Goldstein is the only one head to toe in leather, with a cloud of white hair spilling from under a wide-brimmed snakeskin hat, a handkerchief tied around his neck and quite often a beautiful woman towering over him. As Goldstein's lifestyle would attest, he is a man of considerable means, but the mystery that surrounds how did he make his money or what motivates him is as defining of his persona as his globe-trotting lifestyle, head-to-toe designer gear and state-of-the-art Beverly Hills mansion. Fabulous James takes us high above and inside the Sheats-Goldstein residence to discover more about this enigmatic character that has been shaping LA culture for over 5 decades.

A short film by Ivan Olita conceived exclusively for V Magazine that offers an unprecedented peek into Lady Gaga's system of beliefs about fashion and the collaborative nature that defines her vision.

In Ivan Olita's latest short film exclusively premiered on NOWNESS, we celebrate the culture and composition of a spiritually charged and meticulously designed practice: Catholic mass. The film's timely premier on NOWNESS coincided with the appropriately themed Met Gala - Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, and much like this year's glamorous event, this film is a mesmerizing journey from pope culture to pop culture.

Directed by Ivan Olita, and produced by BRAVÒ, "Glow" is a short film surrounding Morohoshi San, the legendary icon of Japanese custom-cars culture and an everlasting fixture of the street-racing scene. The film, shot in Tokyo solely under the night sky, premiered exclusively on Nowness and delves into the life and myth of its protagonist. By mixing Japanese dedication, laser focus, and western consumerism, Morohoshi's character is the embodiment of "obsession". But cars have a deeper meaning for him, one that could only be understood trough shinto philosophy.

BRAVÒ teamed up with DAZED to bring you House Of Xmas. Director Aurélien Heilbronn hits the streets of New York with ball culture stars for an intimate insight into how they celebrate this time of year. This is the story of New York's beautiful outsiders coming together, a story of community, family and love.