Peter Lim and Matt Payne form Tensegrity Nine, a charming comedic, emotive, new wave, R&B, hip-hop twosome that often busts into synchronized dance routines during shows. The Oakland, CA-based group spoke to Hyphen about its success, or lack thereof.

In your song “Gawd,” you ask the lord for an absurd display of proof (“like a three-legged hippopotamus sprouting wings and flying”) that he exists. Have you each accepted Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior?

Directed by Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland

A documentary filmmaker funds a NYC doorman’s Asian mail order bride in exchange for the right to film the experience. But when Lichi arrives, she finds herself cleaning like Cinderella and carrying out her slovenly husband’s sadistic desires. Once the filmmaker intervenes and gives Lichi refuge, anything goes! The director has to learn the hard way that she’s no angel herself. The spinning pyramidal prism of love and rage finally shatters in this captivating film where all is not what it seems.