In our first piece of ‘Prismatic Ground’ coverage, Ruairí McCann compares ‘Maat Means Land’ and ‘Letter From Your Far-Off Country’ Continue reading Diaspora and Disappearance: ‘Letter From Your Far-Off Country’ and ‘Maat Means Land’
The destruction of a building: more important than the brief moment of the blast are the hours leading up to the detonation. Continue reading The Awkward Altbau – Urban Structures and Dreams of the Future in Konrad Wolf’s ‘Solo Sunny’ (1980)
It’s important to remember that The Weeknd and House of Balloons were first. Continue reading “But I’m a Nice Dude, With Some Nice Dreams” – The Weeknd’s ‘House of Balloons’ Turns 10
“Inherent in the conditions under which it was made, and in it’s strange skirting and shifts there’s an artist testing out several ideas in purposeful denial of a thesis and in a game of constant, formal and spiritual incipience.” Continue reading Review: ‘Come Here’ (2021) dir. by Anocha Suwichakornpong
“Whether through imperfection, glitches, or plurality, club culture did not die in 2020. No hierarchy intended, with this list I want to highlight some of the most powerful live/online performances.” Continue reading On Physicality and Proximity or How “Live/Online” Shows Set the Screen for a New Club Culture
Happy International Women’s Day Continue reading Compilation: Women’s Day 2021
“Instead of offering closeted conservative condemnation, or liberal handwringing and outsized guilt, Massadian has been making a cinema of the ‘animal’ intensities and lucidity of childhood and the often debilitating growing pains of young adulthood.” Continue reading Your Laughter is Spit in the World’s Face: Milla (2017) and Valérie Massadian
I am absolutely tickled by the fact of a filmmaker named Rose making a name for herself with a ‘Bouquet’ series, collecting flowers. Continue reading Winter for Rose
Since the official start of the pandemic one year ago, I have found myself thinking about Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975) every now and then. Continue reading JD 2.0
Corita Kent – artist, nun, activist – flaunted her own interpretation of holiness by artfully expressing her love for the most common of things. Continue reading Corita Kent
