A special act from South America is performing at Edinburgh Fringe Festival until late August. “The Imitator”, Julián Fontalvo, a singer with the ability to imitate 70 famous artists all while telling his own life story, has been handpicked as one of the hidden gems of the festival. Zac […]
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Christian atheism
“Christian Atheism” covers a lot of fascinating ground and this is just an attempt to explain what Žižek means by Christian atheism. He distinguishes Christianity as an emancipatory event, describing it as a decentring of the One-God, separating God-the-Father from Christ. Sean Sheehan His theological starting point is […]
Narrating the extraordinary within the intimate
The documentary “The Echo”, by Mexican-Salvadoran director Tatiana Huezo has hit a number of screens across the UK this summer, with showings continuing until early September. The film follows three young girls from different families who live through the harsh realities of growing up in a village in rural Mexico. […]
Shadows and silences
A woman, photographed from behind, is moving forward with intent through rocky terrain towards open, inhospitable land. Ahead of her lies the outline of bare-looking, small mountains. Sean Sheehan Her long dark hair hangs down loosely to below the waist and her wide skirt may be white but […]
Inside an unknown brutalist necropolis
Not much has been written about one of Argentina’s most striking examples of 20th century architecture. Its creator was an architect who designed the underground necropolis of the Sixth Pantheon in the Chacarita Cemetery. A book on this work has recently been published in English. Zac Liew It […]
















