“What is a poetic cinema? That’s a question I’ve been thinking about, a question yet to be answered. It can’t just be that it's not linear. It has to propose a different kind of language and...
Reality often surpasses even the most complex fiction that people read in books or watch in Hollywood movies. Juan Pujol García managed to lie to the Nazis for years with delayed or misleading...
February is a good month to explore this topic, considering that it is Valentine's Day on Monday and much of our collective thinking is directed towards the celebration (or search) for love. We all...
For a long time, I had planned to start busking for some extra cash. When I moved from Rome to Melbourne I felt it was the right time. In Australia, I wouldn't run the risk of having one of my former...
With trust in the media, in institutions, in each other at a depressing low, it’s important to know how we got here - and how to flip the script. Which is why I’ve compiled an eclectic...
While 2019 was a crappy year for politics and the effects of climate change (among other things), it was an outstanding year for pop culture. If you had trouble navigating the firehose-like release...
The reality of thousands of undocumented immigrants in the United States is reflected in the story of eight families in Netflix's new documentary, Living Undocumented. It tries to show that this is...
Durham Miners’ Gala is an annual event that has been held in Durham every year since 1871. It is a celebration of mining in the area and the associated trade unionism. Many people attend the “big...
As I was about to leave a supermarket a year or two ago, I saw a commotion by the entrance. A man was shouting at the air, arms flailing. Other customers looked afraid and stood back, while two...
After the prison swap between Russia and Ukraine, the West expects Moscow to withdraw its troops from the Donbass. That will reportedly be one of the topics that the Russian President Vladimir Putin...
