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The Radio Wave of Blood Beneath the Dirt Ice and Flowers
An alchemical process of elevation becoming a worship of energy. Dirt, ice, liquids, flowers and the shape of blood are the words in this poem.…Published on: -
Jean of the Joneses
The return of a relative feared lost – and his death a few seconds later – forms the start of a difficult family reminiscence in…Published on: -
Reluctantly Queer
Hushed monologue in black-and-white in which a young Ghanaian immigrant confesses in a warm, openhearted letter to his mother that his love for men waPublished on: -
The Watchmen
“Visibility is a trap”, wrote Michel Foucault with regard to the panopticon as a model of control. Fern Silva’s The Watchmen opens opportuniPublished on: -
Tonsler Park
Election Day, 8 November 2016. In Tonsler Park, Charlottesville, the workers in the polling station hand out voting slips and see rows of voters passPublished on: -
Commodity City
A fascinating look at the daily lives of stallholders at the world’s largest market in the Chinese city of Yiwu.Published on: -
Kindah
A filmic link between two African communities in the diaspora: one in Hudson, New York and one in the Maroon village of Accompong in Jamaica.…Published on: -
Lineage for a Multiple-Monitor Workstation: Number One
A semi-autobiographical portrait of video artist Sondra Perry’s family, (un)recognisable thanks to the chroma-key green balaclavas. While we look at wPublished on: -
The Glass Shield
The idealist JJ starts as a rookie and first black cop in the department. There he comes across a murky affair and discovers that when…Published on: -
An Epilogue
By evoking the Mechanical Turk, a legendary chess playing automaton, Sanborn addresses the problematic relationship between art and technology.Published on: