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Humaira Valera
Dec 13, 20245 min read
‘A Grain of Sand’ Review: An Ode To The Children Of Gaza
A Grain of Sand (2024); image courtesy of Ellie Kurttz The 2024 London Palestine Film Festival opened with the play A Grain of Sand , a...
Maddalena Luberti
Oct 9, 20244 min read
Voices of Resilience: Confronting Censorship in the Arts
The sound of Ahmed Adnan’s oud warmed the brutalist walls of the Barbican’s Cinema 1 as Comma Press presented Voices of Resilience....
Tori Taylor
Sep 26, 20243 min read
'If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves': Reviewing A Night of Charles Mingus at the Barbican
The Barbican Theatre offered a glimpse into a future of immersive theatre that the world is ready for.
OisÃn McGilloway
Jun 11, 20243 min read
‘Anhell69’ Review: A View To The Representational Forms Of The Future
Screened as part of Barbican Young Programmers’ Chronic Youth Film Festival, Anhell69 represents a changing tide in activist filmmaking,...
Akane Hayashi
May 13, 20245 min read
Chronic Youth Film Festival Presents Gregg Araki’s Nowhere + Discussion on Film Music
Outcast adolescents beneath the underdog take centre stage in Japanese-American director Gregg Araki’s youth-oriented films. Notorious...
OisÃn McGilloway
May 13, 20249 min read
In Conversation With Barbican's Chronic Youth Film Festival Young Programmers
Ahead of Barbican Cinema's annual Chronic Youth Film Festival, the festival that celebrates the work of the young programmers in this...
OisÃn McGilloway
Mar 12, 20244 min read
In conversation with Frances Underhill, Programmer For Human Rights Watch Film Festival
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival returns to London for its 28th year, providing a plethora of films from across the world, all...
Ernest Chlopicki
Feb 27, 20244 min read
Barbican 'Unravel' Review: 'tells a story of an ancestral tradition rendered insignificant'
★★★★☆ Louise Bourgeois with her sculpture, THREE HORIZONTALS, in her home on 20th Street in New York City in 1999. © The Easton...
Marine Pellissier
Feb 22, 20243 min read
‘Trading Places’ at Barbican: The Decline And The Fall of London Landscapes
When looking at archives of London’s streets and neighbourhoods, it is impossible not to feel an irresistible nostalgia for a time that...
Leda Schenke Gonis
Jan 19, 20245 min read
‘Imagine the Sound’ At Barbican Cinema: Disdain For The Known
A quick search on Google defines free jazz as an ‘improvised style of jazz characterised by the absence of set chord patterns or time...
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