Spurred by the police killings of Black people in 2016, Roberto Minervini decides to make a film about Black America. By slowly absorbing their life in New Orleans, and by formally approaching the Black Panthers he builds a picture. As a film-maker, he calls himself a ‘politically charged citizen’. […]
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Off to war with a Camera
The soldiers thought of it as a foreign holiday and so they brought their cameras. Their country has the best –35 mm. Leicas and the Rolleiflex and the Rolleicord were all made there– and its military capability was just as first-rate. Sean Sheehan The war in Spain has […]
We need them more than they need us
“If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world’s ecosystem would collapse”. Sean Sheehan David Attenborough’s startling statement is quoted by the author of a […]
The heart of lightness
These three short novels by Sylvia Townsend Warner, written in the 1920s and ‘30s, show the author to be one of the most underappreciated of 20th century British writers of fiction. Sean Sheehan The stories have very different settings and characters and are testimony to the imaginative range […]
Cecile Allegra (II): Rape them all
“When you rape the men, you eliminate the political class”. What is happening in Libya is probably one of the worst Crimes against Humanity since WW2. Her earlier films, hardly known in the English-speaking world, expose the hypocrisy of Fortress Europe, desperate to stop immigration and hide the true situation. […]
















