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19 06, 2021

Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams: Review of Rifkin’s Festival

By |June 19th, 2021|Film Production|Comments Off on Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams: Review of Rifkin’s Festival

Finally, I managed to see the latest Woody Allen film. It’s not available for streaming, wasn’t released in the UK, and I didn’t want to watch it on a DVD. Apparently, in today’s Dark Age of plague and politically correct puritans, one has to go to a cinema in Eastern Europe in order to [...]

15 04, 2021

Gillian Wearing, Marlene Dumas and Relational Art in the 1990s

By |April 15th, 2021|Visual Art|Comments Off on Gillian Wearing, Marlene Dumas and Relational Art in the 1990s

Nowadays contemporary art works are often created through in-depth processes of appropriating found imagery. In which, style plays a significant role in developing a narrative centered around different methods of communication and interactions between people and their environments. Nicolas Bourriaud in his 1998 book Esthétique relationnelle sets forth that relational art involves taking the [...]

6 02, 2021

The Master of Pure Cinema: Going Back to the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

By |February 6th, 2021|Film Movements|Comments Off on The Master of Pure Cinema: Going Back to the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Recently I asked a young friend of mine what new films she had been watching during the strange and alienating Plague Year 2020. In a way I was both surprised and not surprised at all with her answer. “I haven’t seen many new movies. Little of what’s done today is of any interest to [...]

20 01, 2021

Minari and the Rising Legacy of Hollywood’s RenAsiassance

By |January 20th, 2021|Film Movements|Comments Off on Minari and the Rising Legacy of Hollywood’s RenAsiassance

Until very recently, Hollywood’s Asian characters were pretty much limited to the odd doctor here or there, the ‘dragon lady’ love interest, beggars on the streets of South Asia, or, let’s not forget the holy grail: the ‘New York taxi driver with the most overly-exaggerated Indian accent you’ll ever hear’. But that slowly started [...]