An unusual plague a plague of stillness descends on a city, and begins to spread through the modern world. How can a maker of moving images hope to grapple with something that negates his art? His film is lost unfinished, but 50 years later a researcher finds what remains, and discovers a commentary on Colombia and much else.
Culture
The magic of macro photography
Perspectivism, a term which Nietzsche invested with philosophical meaning, is about the way we always see things from a certain point of view. Forces of various kinds work to organize the selective patterns by which we see what we see. Sean Sheehan It depends on not seeing whatever […]
The dirty war on the NHS
Filmed in Britain and the United States, this documentary affects us all and reveals what may be the last battle to preserve the most fundamental human right. A hybrid event to be held on 25 May will allow an in-depth journey into its making and the subject matter itself. […]
Chilean cinema in the 21st century
During the Pinochet dictatorship, only two national feature films were released in Chile but over the last decade of this century some two dozen new films were premiered every year. Sean Sheehan Chilean cinema is now pulled between local identities and mainstream global aesthetics: a time of adaptation […]
Religion’s malevolence
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that currently heads the coalition Assembly in Northern Ireland was formed by Ian Paisley, a Protestant evangelical minister. Sean Sheehan Although he honed a brand of hate speech directed at Catholics (‘they breed like rabbits and multiply like vermin’) and the papacy (‘I […]