Overview of articles
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Poised
On the brink, considering diving’s metaphysical resonance as a rite of passage between the moment itself and imminent, inescapable change.Published on: -
Prófugos
Larraín’s take on the bleak reality of life in Chile in his first series for HBO Latin America. A riveting action series about a drug…Published on: -
Shanghai
In Shanghai, starring top actors from the Indian new wave, multinational companies are in cahoots with corrupt politicians to restructure a small townPublished on: -
By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging
Erudite, aesthetic film sonnet; a love letter to 17th-century naturalist Robert Boyle.Published on: -
21 Chitrakoot
A lo-fi collage of background projections from an Indian TV series from the 1980s which evokes a surreal, mythical world.Published on: -
De ontmaagding van Eva van End
When German exchange student Veit (blond curls, blue eyes) comes to stay with teenager Eva (pussycat sweater, glasses), his perfect looks awaken all kPublished on: -
Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship
Basim Magdy’s wide range of work extends from painting to filmmaking and photography. He blends fiction with reality by manipulating how images are rePublished on: -
In Search of Hip-Hop
You don’t expect to find hip-hop in Sudan. Everything God prohibited really is banned there. When you do find some, it is, at the very…Published on: -
Jiseul
Black-and-white (anti-) war film about the Korean army’s brutal suppression of the rebellion on Jeju in 1948. The islanders fled their villages and hiPublished on: -
The Charm of Others
Is Ninomiya Ryutaro the new Kitano Takeshi? He also directs himself with black humour. Told in funny, vexingly realistic fragments and set in the JapaPublished on: