Luis López Carrasco on writing The White Desert: a nuclear love story
September 18, 2026
We’re unsure what, exactly, has happened, or where our protagonists, long-time couple Carlos and Aitana, have found themselves.
We’re unsure what, exactly, has happened, or where our protagonists, long-time couple Carlos and Aitana, have found themselves.
If you’ve seen the films of Agnès Varda, you love Varda.
Joey – girl, 23, barista – meets Chuck – man, 35, copywriter – at a bar.
Speaking with author Ben Faccini, he tells me that writing his third and latest novel, Other People’s Children, felt like building a “house of cards”.
I’m standing in the much-mythologised screening room of the Rio Cinema in Dalston as projectionist Andrew Woodyatt walks me through its history.
Fila, short for Filippa, sits in her recently deceased grandmother’s kitchen when she receives a call informing her of her mother’s death: “they say it’s because of her liver, but I can assure you that it was not…
As Hong Kong’s art month draws to a close, Art Central returns to the Central Harbourfront for its 11th edition.
Leonard St, London, is a funny little sliver of a street.
Good mothers, bad mothers, mothers trying their best, mothers too tired to try at all.
In the fantastical, medieval-styled world of Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero, a beautiful lady named Cherry (Maika Monroe) faces imminent execution for failing to become pregnant by her new husband, Jerome (Amir…
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a twin?
When my Zoom call with Bryn Chainey finally connects, there’s no audio.
“Do you think a part of you wants to escape reality?” A scene curator who builds portraits of lives lived in old houses, castles and manors.
“If there’s one thing that people who love movies love, it’s movies about movies”: writers, critics and academics on the best film of the century.
In 2013, a 17-minute video titled Dirty Girls was uploaded to YouTube by Michael Lucid.
Nestled in an inlet of the Adriatic Sea, Rijeka is Croatia’s largest port city and its third largest city overall.
With the first half of October behind us, those miraculous sunny days already fading into distant memory, and Halloween plans starting to feel more urgent, the urge to stay in on a misty evening and watch a good…
It has been less than a year since David Lynch’s passing, and the outpouring of love and grief from his fans around the world continues to be felt.
So states a tomb in Recoleta Cemetery, belonging to a certain Mendoza Paz and, one day, to the ashes of Mariana Enriquez, if her friends are to fulfill her wishes.
By day, Limei works in a coffee shop in Shanghai, where she’s the best latte artist, thanks to her “slender, delicate and nimble fingers.” She is also the most beloved, because her art is always beautiful.
Sayna Fardaraghi’s work has been circulating online for years now, her soft cinematography and pensive short films regularly finding virality in Twitter (before its X-days) film circles.
Set in a near-future Tokyo, Happyend follows Kou, a teenager sneaking into raves with his group of best friends, trying his best to graduate, and following the lead of the daring Yuta.
She is kneeling in the Place de la Concorde, recreating Marie Antoinette’s execution.
So comments Stefano Rabolli Pansera, Artistic Director of the St.
Before vampires became a beloved cinematic staple, before science fiction was taken seriously as a lens for societal critique, and before hospital dramas dominated primetime television, they were the stuff of…
As dusk began to set on June 26th, only a few days after the summer solstice, 250 people filed into St Giles’ Church for an evening of pagan-friendly merriment.
Tiguere – or Tiger, in its English translation – had its UK premiere during the Barbican’s Chronic Youth Festival, where it opened the programme with an unflinching look at socialised masculinity.
Is it heard in the laughter of artists, felt in the quiet rage of children, seen in the vibrant celebrations of a community?
