‘Coconut Head Generation’ Review: A Young Person’s Guide To Activist Filmmaking
The film opens in a distant, grainy, black-and-white past, showing us the opening ceremony for the permanent buildings of Ibadan...
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Blake Simons
Apr 912 min read
In Conversation With Sav Rodgers, Director of 'Chasing Chasing Amy'
When Sav Rodgers was twelve years old, he encountered Chasing Amy, Kevin Smith’s 1997 independent slacker comedy about a cisgender...
Oisín McGilloway
Mar 218 min read
In Conversation with the Makers of 'Coconut Head Generation'
Alain Kassanda’s latest documentary Coconut Head Generation follows the Thursday Film Series, a movie club at the University of Ibadan,...
Oisín McGilloway
Mar 115 min read
Opening Scenes: Elif Gönen, aka FORLUCK
A couple of weeks ago, visual artist Elif Gönen, aka FORLUCK, whose latest documentary Please Be Happy appeared at BFI Future Film...
Marine Pellissier
Feb 223 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...
Ariunzaya Batkhuyag
Feb 133 min read
'Samsara' Review: Visually Delicious, Structurally Intriguing, And Textually Profound
In Buddhist philosophy, the term ‘Samsara’ refers to the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, within which all living beings are bound by...
Leda Schenke Gonis
Jan 195 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...
Oisín McGilloway
Jan 174 min read
‘Queendom’ Review: 'Destructive Appearances Cause Incidents'
Following an artist in her endeavour to fuse art and activism on the streets of Russia with otherworldly costumes, Queendom is not only a...
Anainah Dalal
Nov 16, 20235 min read
'I Am Sirat' LFF 2023 Review: A Love Story
Once a movie is finished, the common practice is to get up and leave as the credits roll. Of course, if you’re someone who religiously...
Tori Taylor
Sep 16, 20234 min read
'Theatre Camp' Review: A Film Worthy Of The Spotlight
In the words of my mother, Theater Camp was “surprisingly good”. Even I, a self-confessed theatre kid, had serious reservations about...
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