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Tag: Film

Homemade: DIY Film-making in a Post-Pandemic World

12th October 202012th October 2020  Mavra Bari

Homemade sees 17 acclaimed and upcoming filmmakers from around the world respond to the pandemic and quarantine experience during the first few months of lockdown.

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Posted in Arts, Film and MediaTagged: Covid-19, Film, Gurinder Chadha, Johnny Ma, Lockdown Living, netflix, Pablo Larrain, Pandemic, quarantine, Rachel Morrison, Rungano Nyoni

The Dinner Party Reloaded 1: The Artists

19th July 20201st September 2020  Susanna Crossman

In the first of her self-conceived series, The Dinner Party Reloaded, a virtual dinner party with selected artists and writers, Susanna Crossman meets Chiara Ambrosio, Lottie Whalen and Jemima Yong to discuss their creative projects, the looseness of time in lockdown, contact and intimacy in our increasingly digital age and the joys of chickpea stew.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, InterviewsTagged: Chiara Ambrosio, Covid-19, Decorating Dissidence, Film, Jemima Yong, Lockdown Living, Lottie Whalen, Pandemic, Photography, Susanna Crossman, The Dinner Party Reloaded, Women in the Arts

Nam June Paik: The Modern Shaman of the Multimedia World

2nd February 20203rd February 2020  Christina Makri

A pioneer of video art and a foreseer of communication in the age of the internet, visionary artist Nam June Paik is celebrated in Tate Modern’s latest exhibition.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Film, Fluxus, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Tate, Tate Modern, The Beatles, Video Art

On Unwavering Faith in Systems: Has the Sun Set on Procedurals?

27th August 201927th August 2019  Olivia Scott-Berry

I’ve found comfort in procedurals including State of Play, Spotlight, Miss Sloane and Denial, but now I’m moved by doubts about how they fit into an increasingly extreme political climate, writes our arts contributor Olivia Scott-Berry.

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Posted in Arts, Film and MediaTagged: Denial, Film, investigation, Line of Duty, Miss Sloane, Politics, procedural, Spotlight, State of Play, The West Wing, Wind River

Why Always Be My Maybe is “the One”!

3rd July 20193rd July 2019  Tasmika Ramkaran

Netflix’s latest rom-com offering, Always Be My Maybe, sidesteps the monotony of the genre and presents a product fit for a 2019 audience.

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Posted in Arts, Film and MediaTagged: Ali Wong, Always Be My Maybe, comedy, Film, keanu, netflix, Randall Park, Review, romcom, yelp

Captain Marvel: The Hero We’ve Been Waiting For

20th May 201919th May 2019  Amina Ahmed

The arrival of Captain Marvel heralds a new era for the Marvel Cinematic Universe – one that finally allows me, and millions of other moviegoers, to see ourselves in MCU superheroes.

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Posted in Arts, Film and MediaTagged: Avengers Endgame, Brie Larson, Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers, Film, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Superheroes, Wonder Woman

Diaspora Daydreams: Storytelling, Solidarity and Survival in our Films

16th May 201917th May 2019  Sumaya Kassim

Writer and independent researcher, Sumaya Kassim, looks at how film is being used to explore what diaspora, issues of transnational belonging and British national identity mean to Arab womxn and non-binary film-makers.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Film and MediaTagged: Al-Ghorba, Alia Hijaab, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Arwa Aburawa, Basi Akpabio, Bayan Dahdah, Birmingham Museum, Clash, Dardishi, Decolonality, Decolonisation, Decolonising the Museum, diaspora, Film, Georgette Mrakadeh-Keane, In the Kitchen, Period dramas, Samar Ziadat, Samaya Kassim, Scheherazade, Shish Barak, Temi Wilkey, The Museum Will Not Be Decolonised, Travis Alabanza, Umber Ghauri, Womxn

Crime or Capitalism? Netflix’s Rotten and Dirty Money

20th March 201920th March 2019  Genevieve Riccoboni

Netflix is turning towards investigative journalism, and two of its new series reveal the depths of corporate crime and corruption. But how should we respond to crimes that are seen as “business as usual”?

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Posted in Arts, Film and MediaTagged: documentary, Film, Health, netflix

Daria Martin: Tonight the World at The Curve, Barbican Centre

7th February 20198th February 2019  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

In Tonight the World, Daria Martin brings her grandmother’s dream diaries to life through exquisite 16mm films, thus shining a light on past trauma.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Film and Media, GeneralTagged: Barbican, Barbican Centre, Daria Martin, dreams, Film, Freud, Jarman Award, Jungian Analysis, Susi Stiassni, The Curve, videogames

Beware of Medea – [not] an apology

11th December 201811th December 2018  Barbara Bollig

Barbara Bolig explores the various retellings of the Medea myth and asks if it’s possible to sympathise with one of mythology’s darkest female protagonists.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Books, Film and Media, TheatreTagged: Film, Greek Mythology, Klinger, Loher, Medea, Myth, Pasolini, Waterhouse
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