Seeking to ‘glimpse the gentle law that guides the human race’ is a lofty if probably unattainable aspiration but the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868), in the preface to the stories that make up his “Motley stones”, imputes such a desire to all of us. Sean Sheehan The […]
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Borom taxi, a journey through immigrant life in Buenos Aires
A group of Senegalese men survive selling on the streets and beaches. Being so far apart from relatives and partners adds to their difficulties. This is the first of a series of articles in The Prisma about immigrant experiences portrayed in documentary films. Graham Douglas Migration is mostly […]
Monte abierto
“Monte abierto” is the disclosure of a world in which the generation of things happens through the reciprocal and embodied relationship between people, materials, and nature. And it’s also the name of the project for the Argentinian Pavilion at the 2021 London Design Biennale, curated by Franca López Barbera. […]
The monk who married a nun
As a figure in world history Martin Luther has a place alongside Alexander the Great or Napoleon, individuals whose actions shaped the world for centuries after their death. Sean Sheehan Just as there are still cities named after Alexander, just as secularism in France today owes its existence […]
Leon Siminiani, playing with stillness
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.
















