Cover-Up is a political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Urgent and deeply reported, Cover-Up is both a portrait of a relentless journalist and an […]
Cover-Up
John Lennon’s son ‘feels like history is repeating’ in US politics
Sean Ono Lennon, the youngest son of The Beatles guitarist John Lennon, has said “it all feels like history is repeating”, when comparing the political times of the US in the early […]
1977: Is PUNK ROCK a Threat to BRITISH SOCIETY?
“For many people, it’s become a bigger threat to our way of life than Russian communism or hyperinflation.” – Brian Trueman “Do I look vile and obscene?” – Pete Shelley Brian Trueman […]
HyperNormalisation
HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that governments, financiers, and technological utopians have, since the 1970s, given up on trying to model the complex “real […]
Video Essay: “Godfrey Reggio and TikTok”
“Godfrey Reggio and TikTok” by Eva Elcano Movement, correct speed, language, words, music, image, shape, resolution. An audiovisual composition built through the collaborative filmography of Godfrey Reggio, looking for a new encounter—a […]
The remote archipelago of Svalbard
The archipelago Svalbard in the Arctic is a place anyone can call home. A zone with no visa requirements, people from more than 50 countries live and work here. But life in […]
THE LAST WALTZ BLUES JAM
By Bob Margolin The more blues-driven musicians commandeered the instruments at the jam, and played some old favorite songs together, mostly Robert Johnson’s. This sounds like a common scene at open-mic jams […]
Trailer: Rip It Up and Start Again
A ‘proof-of-concept’ trailer for a four-part series covering the post-punk scenes of the years 1978-82, using Simon Reynolds’ book ‘Rip It Up + Start Again’ as a roadmap. This version is a […]
Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz
Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and ‘70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers – brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and […]
ECHO: The Music of Harold Budd and Brian Eno
A documentary revisiting the seminal works ‘The Plateaux of Mirror’ (1980) and ‘The Pearl’ (1984), by artists Harold Budd and Brian Eno. Rare interviews and anecdotes from the artists accompany a fan-crafted […]
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