

Floating Roots
This article was previously published in Issue 20, ISLANDS (March 2019). A native-born islander’s relationship with their home can be...


Finding Agnès Varda
This article was previously published in Issue 19, ABSENCE (December 2018). Still from The Gleaners and I, 2000, dir. Agnès Varda (Image:...


John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’: A Hard-Hitting Wake-Up Call
In ‘The Loop or the Vortex’, Kader Attia reminds us of a limitation Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were confronted with as they...


‘Velvet Buzzsaw’: Artfully Dodge this Horror
I am usually the first to avoid horror films, but the trailer for Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw intrigued me. A horror film concerning the art...


'Mary Queen of Scots': Women in Tudor Britain
As I am currently on the Constructing Empires Constellation Course, I was particularly excited to see two historical movies, Mary Queen...


Seen on Screen: Somerset House
Goodbye Somerset House, hello Vernon Square! As our former home becomes a distant memory I thought I’d reflect on how this Neoclassical...


In Defense of Bean: Art History and Pop Culture
If you’re looking for a positive spin on art history in the media, you’ve come to the right place. My name is Anna Thompson, an...


A rare, beautiful stasis: Steve McQueen’s Widows
Widows grabs you. It puts you deep into the tight streets of Chicago and paints an image of struggle and poverty sandwiched against...


Twenty Years Later, ‘Princess Mononoke’ Is Still My Number One
To my sister Céleste, Last time I watched ‘Princess Mononoke’ on a big screen, I was seven. It was in the independent arts cinema called...


'Lo and Behold' by Werner Herzog
Image: author's own. ‘Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World’, 2016 dir: Werner Herzog The Internet, Documentary Science Fiction,...