Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Director: Gideon Breytenbach & Riku Lätti. Writer: Gideon Breytenbach & Jackie Lätti. Running time: 1hr 38 mins. The power, and limitations, of culture as a force for change are have long been debated by a left that has found its influence waning throughout the last century. Jack Benjamin / […]
Jacqueline Rose began “The plague” with the first UK pandemic lockdown (March 2020) and she finished it with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years later. Written, as she puts it, ‘in the heat and chill of its moment’, it is remarkably eloquent and reflective, distinguished by a precision of thought […]
Director: Tian Yu Liu. Writer: Tian Yu Liu. Running time: 15 mins. After screening “Moerasdraak”– a found-footage film about a group of students who accidentally uncover an international conspiracy during a project on broadcast journalism – I spoke to director Ruben Swart. Jack Benjamin / Indy Film Library* One […]
Virtually nothing is known about Anne (Agnes) Hathaway other than she was the mother of three children – Susanna in 1583 and the twins, Judith and Hamnet, in 1585. Sean Sheehan She was the daughter of a sheep farmer and probably illiterate, but her claim to fame rests […]
The cultural critic Walter Benjamin is probably best known for his essay, “The work of art in the age of technological reproducibility”, and the use of the term ‘aura’ to designate the quality in a work of art that changes its singularity when it is subject to reproduction. Sean […]
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