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Ending All Journeys – overload narratives in cinema

We love questions. The act of questioning is both an act of uncertainty, and a declaration of intent. The more metaphorical, the more unnerving, the ‘bigger’ the question, the more we desperately demand an answer to it. But then the... Continue Reading →

“The Eyes that couldn’t breathe” – The Filmmaker who scared a century

As much as we want to play it cool, we find ourselves occasionally coming across figures  whose influence is undeniable. What better person than this as an example, and what better time to be uncool about film-making than now. Many... Continue Reading →

Dirty Gods: Elias Merhige and Drone Horror

"Language bearers. Photographers. Diary Makers. You with your memory are dead, frozen. Lost in a present that never stops passing. Here lives the incantation of matter. A language forever." These are the first words we see on screen as the... Continue Reading →

Holy Mountain: Esoteric Cinema and The Divine

Today we've got another momentous surrealist work which I've definitely been putting off for the simple reason that I can't possibly sum it up. It is of course Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 cult classic, 'The Holy Mountain'. It has parodies and critiques... Continue Reading →

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