Labour in a single shot (2013) was one of the last collaborations by Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann before Farocki’s death in July 2014. (more…)
24/7 Jonathan Crary
Time is a personal resource, it scansions and nurtures each of our lives from the moment we are born to when we die. Unlike all other resources, it can be exchanged but never recaptured. Since its origin, human kind has sought ways to prolong, stall and ultimately capture it. Jonathan Crary’s 24/7 is an insightful and ...
Norman Lewis “A Dragon Apparent”
(Feature Image Source: HERE) Norman Lewis, English journalist, travelled to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in 1951. A Dragon Apparent is an amusing, appalling, and moving tale of a region on the verge of war. (more…)
Marina Keegan ‘The Opposite of Loneliness’
At a time when many of us are graduating and are on the cusp of adult life, it is an overwhelming but exciting time, full of possibility. (more…)
Fifty Shades of Bland
One might have hoped that by the recruitment of Goldsmiths alumna Sam Taylor-Johnson as director, the cinematic adaptation of the inexplicably popular novel Fifty Shades of Grey might gain some much needed credibility. (more…)
Tiziano Terzani ‘La Fine è il mio Inizio’
The End is my Beginning is, in effect, a hymn to life, to the incongruences of human existence. (more…)