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Mar 22, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Lou Thomas |Georgia Korossi |Brogan Morris |Arun AKArun A.K
Robot Dreams is an animated adaptation of Sara Varon’s 2007 graphic novel about a lonely dog who purchases and befriends a mail-order robot. The pair have fun and live together in a lively version of 1980s New York City populated entirely by anthropomorphic animals, with Dog forgetting his sadness until Robot gets wet during a visit to the beach, threatening to derail the good times.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Georgia Korossi |Brogan Morris |Arun AKArun A.K |Rachel Pronger
Director Zacharias Mavroeidis tells us about his smart, summery tale of two gay friends trying to write a film script. 21 March 2024By Georgia KorossiThe new film from Greek director Zacharias Mavroeidis is proof that queer cinema has much more to offer than coming-out stories and sobering love narratives.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Brogan Morris |Arun AKArun A.K |Rachel Pronger |Lou Thomas
Griffin Dunne recalls the nocturnal shoot of After Hours: how it recharged Scorsese’s career, the input of Michael Powell, and the prospect of Tim Burton directing. 20 March 2024By Brogan MorrisIt’s hard to believe now, but Martin Scorsese was once on the outs in Hollywood.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Arun AKArun A.K |Rachel Pronger |Lou Thomas |Josh Slater-Williams
Pine Cone is a love story set against three turning points for LGBTQIA+ rights in India. As the film screens at BFI Flare, we spoke to director Onir about quotas for queer content, the impact of changing laws, and his love of My Beautiful Laundrette. 19 March 2024By Arun A.K.Pine Cone is the new movie by gay filmmaker Onir, who is one of the foremost LGBTQIA+ voices in India.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Arun AKArun A.K
In 2019, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth, Irish writer and poet Gabriel Rosenstock and Kashmiri artist Masood Hussain collaborated on a book titled Walk with Gandhi: Bóthar na Saoirse. It featured Rosenstock’s bilingual Irish and English haikus and English prose on Gandhi’s life, illustrated by Hussain’s watercolor paintings. The two artists bridged their geographical gap again to virtually collaborate on a second book, Boatman! Take these songs from me in 2023.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Arun AKArun A.K
After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy. Over the next century and beyond, Britain and other colonial powers, joined by American and Indian merchants, amassed unimaginable wealth by getting the Chinese addicted to opium. It was opium money from trade with China that primarily funded the expansion of so many Western corporations and institutions.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Arun AKArun A.K
After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy. Over the next century and beyond, Britain and other colonial powers, joined by American and Indian merchants, amassed unimaginable wealth by getting the Chinese addicted to opium. It was opium money from trade with China that primarily funded the expansion of so many Western corporations and institutions.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Arun AKArun A.K
In September 2020, the Parliament of India passed three farm acts, triggering nationwide protests by agricultural workers and their unions. These bills, dubbed “anti-farmer laws” by protestors, would deregulate government-run markets, ending price floors for crops and leaving them at the mercy of private corporations.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Arun AKArun A.K
To this day, the story of the genocide of the Selk’nam Indigenous tribe of Patagonia is missing from Chile’s school curriculum. In his revisionist western drama, The Settlers (2023), Felipe Gálvez Haberle opens the darkest unacknowledged chapters of his country’s history. While the director presents a snapshot – just one brutal incident – it serves as a microcosm of the mass extermination carried out by settler-colonists.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
hyperallergic.com | Arun AKArun A.K
In Sanskrit, the term marjara-nyaya refers to a method of devotion in which a devotee completely surrenders to the deity, much like a kitten surrenders to the mother’s protective grasp (marjara is the Sanskrit word for cat). In contrast, marjara-vrata stands for “cat’s vow” — an opprobrium attributed to the cat’s deceitful ways. These dual perceptions of the feline can be traced back to many cultures’ ancient oral and written folklore.
