Nestled towards the south of Portugal is the Alentejo region – it covers approximately a third of the country (making it by far the largest region), and is known for many different elements that draw tourists in year after year, ranging from the layered history to the sprawling natural landscapes in which the stories of…
Category: experimental
The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)
There is a reason why the 1920s are considered one of the best decades for French art – it was a renaissance of sorts in all areas, including literature, visual arts and music. Cinema was not lagging far behind, and while Hollywood was making the most substantial leap towards it becoming one of the primary…
Dry Leaf (2025)
“Irakli thought about the road. How wonderful it is that there are roads” There is nothing quite like the feeling of being on the open road, which is precisely what this quote is describing. These words appear at the very end of Dry Lead (Georgian: ხმელი ფოთოლი), another ambitious and daring work emerging from the…
Resurrection (2025)
How do you describe a work of art that was created for the specific purpose of avoiding any kind of categorisation or broad interpretation? Bi Gan is a genius and a menace, and has seemingly committed his entire artistic career to exploring the human condition in ways that are both incredibly invigorating and profoundly frustrating,…
Orfeo (2025)
One of the hallmarks of a truly extraordinary story is its ability to be adapted countless times, including instances where it is mangled and reconfigured into entirely different contexts while still retaining some degree of resonance to the original work. This is precisely why artists like William Shakespeare and Franz Kafka have remained so incredibly…
Pin de fartie (2025)
Pinpointing an artistic movement to a particular work or moment in time is difficult, since we’ve come to learn there’s nothing that can be considered truly original – as Roland Barthes said, “a text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture”, which is the very foundation of postmodernism as a…
Nouvelle Vague (1990)
Where does an artistic revolutionary go once the world has caught up with their ingenuity? Some are put out to pasture, fading into obscurity through struggling to come to terms with a rise in popularity, indicating that they were no longer symbols of the avant-garde and instead highly influential remnants of a bygone era. Others…
Mr. K (2025)
I often wonder whether Franz Kafka realised that his writing would have such an enormous impact on global culture – not only have his works been formative in the creation of entire literary movements, the very mention of his name evokes particular images and ideas, such as the frustrations of navigating the bureaucracy, endless hallways…
Baan (2024)
Where is home? Perhaps a more interesting question is what is it about a specific place that leads it to earn such a label, whether it is for an individual or a wider group of people? In her second feature directorial outing (following her well-received Ashore a few years ago), Leonor Teles, who had previously…
It’s Not Me (2024)
I have always maintained that Leos Carax is such an ingenious filmmaker, he could make even the most abstract and unconventional ideas seem engaging and captivating. This is exactly what he did in It’s Not Me (French: C’est pas moi), his ambitious and utterly bewildering attempt at self-reflection, and his most recent offering. The film,…
The Postmodern Pelican 