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Bend It Like Beckham Could Have Been Queerer, But It Still Aged Well
Much like the bunches of dhaniya (coriander) that Mrs Bhamra asks her daughters to buy, Bend It Like Beckham is a cultural staple for my...
MIA BAYS: ON A MISSION
The hugely successful New York Writers Lab, supported by Oprah Winfrey, Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep, is coming to the UK. The Writers...
WHY ARE ALL OUR PROPHETS DEAD? By Marissa Mireles Hinds
☁️New Moving Image: our final commission of 2020 is poetry short 'Why Are All Our Prophets Dead?' by poet and filmmaker Marissa Mireles...
TRUTH: a visual poem
My name is Caira Naomi, I am a 24-year old woman born and raised in North London with Jamaican heritage. I am a photographer, singer,...
Miriam Bale: Indie Memphis 2020
This year Indie Memphis Film Festival held a combination of virtual and outdoor screenings meaning we got to view most of the film...
Natalie Erika James: Processing Horror
Natalie Erika James haunting debut feature Relic begins in the best way a film can; flashing Christmas lights à la Morvern Callar (2002)...
Lucy Brydon: Primed for a Challenge
Writer and director Lucy Brydon's striking debut feature Body of Water explores the nature of an eating disorder, and its treatment,...
The Parallels of Existence
As I sit here at home in Brixton, South London, living in a council estate which I am privately renting; I am thinking about my childhood...
Unruly Bodies
UNRULY /ʌnˈruːli/ adjective disorderly and disruptive and not amenable to discipline or control. Our bodies are all unique and perhaps in...
I'll See You in Cuba
The story that informs my obsession with the Cuban moving image is deeply personal, though it’s certainly not private. If anything, it is...
Ani Simon-Kennedy: In for the Long Haul
Ani Simon-Kennedy's latest feature The Short History of the Long Road is a coming of age tale set on the road with questions about family...
Visualising Blackness: Handsworth Songs and Documents of Police Brutality
“The question today is not so much can the subaltern speak, for the new global networks of technicity have solved this problem with...
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