15 11, 2021

Dune: A Grand Beginning

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Denis Villeneuve is a great director. He proves this with each new movie of his. When it became known that he was to direct a new film based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 cult sci-fi novel Dune, it was difficult not to get excited. The Dune book series is beloved by many, and a proper [...]

17 09, 2021

Should there be a Windrush Monument and what should it look like?

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June 22nd is Windrush Day, a date that celebrates the contributions of Afro-Caribbean migrants to the United Kingdom. In light of the UK government’s scandalous treatment of many members of the ‘Windrush Generation’ (named after the Empire Windrush ship which brought 492 Caribbean people to Britain in 1948), that same government announced that a [...]

19 06, 2021

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

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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

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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

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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 [...]