The Amazons, an all-female, barbarian tribe of mythological warriors, fascinated the ancient Greeks. Ubiquitous in art –only representations of Heracles appear more often on vase paintings– they appear battling with Greeks in sculpted scenes on classical temples. Sean Sheehan Natalie Haynes, in “Pandora’s jar”, wonders why a male-dominated […]
Culture
Auteur film in Barcelona
The “Barcelona International Auteur Film Festival” will take place from Thursday 29th April until 9th May. The event, in its eleventh year, will open with the French tragicomedy “Bye Bye Morons”. Directed by and starring Albert Dupontel this film, honoured with seven César prizes in its home country, is […]
The big questions about material reality
Listening to a programme about the theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is convincing evidence that most of us don’t understand the fundamentals of our physical universe. Sean Sheehan Other evidence is the unquenchable thirst for books like Frank Wilczek’s “Fundamentals: ten keys to reality” by those who do. Some […]
The cynical British racism over its colonies
“Small Axe” is an anthology consisting of five film in series that together weave a concise and cohesive overview of the racial violence that prevailed in London from the end of the 60s until the start of the 80s. “Lovers rock” stands out for its audio-visual potential. Gustavo Galuppo […]
Bickering nuns and broken spies
Rejecting the privilege and conformity of her background, Sylvia Townsend Warner shared communist beliefs with her lover, Valentine Ackland, and the two women worked for the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. Sean Sheehan This is a far cry from her 1948 novel, “The corner that held […]