We are used to cultural conservatives bemoaning the ‘hook up culture’. Usually it’s also older people criticising the young, for enjoying pleasures they can no longer experience. Steve Latham The accusations are familiar: more promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, using social media like Tinder and Grindr for casual sex, […]
Author: ThePrisma
Life and death in the gulag
Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982) was first arrested in Moscow at an underground printshop in 1929 and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. In 1937 he was arrested again for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Kolyma region in the Russian Far East. Sean Sheehan He spent the next fifteen years […]
The drama of an immigrant woman in the United Kingdom
Abused and almost killed in Latin America by her ex-partner, she fled to Spain where she encountered racism. She has been in London for three years and now faces exploitation in the workplace: including not being paid, being overworked to the point of not being able to walk and suffering verbal abuse.
José Vieira… the pains of being a migrant
Fleeing the Portuguese dictatorship with his family in 1965 shaped his desire to investigate the interior and exterior reality of emigration. He speaks about the shame of being forced to leave your roots for economic and political reasons. When politicians criminalize migrants, while permitting their exploitation, film must speak out. […]
In London, voices for Catalonia and democracy
After having committed human rights abuses during the Referendum for Catalan Independence that took place two years ago, the Spanish State has once again exhibited its strong hatred towards the Catalan region, this time by giving excessive sentences to pro-independence leaders who took part in the referendum on 1st October […]