Xuanlin Tham

United Kingdom

writer in british gq, anOther mag, i-D, lwlies, and elsewhere. 'REVOLUTIONARY DESIRES' forthcoming mar 2025 with @404Ink ❤️‍🔥

Articles

A Manifesto for the Modern Cinematic Sex Scene

1 month ago | anothermag.com | Xuanlin Tham |TextXuanlin Tham

Drawing examples from recent films like Babygirl, Passages and How to Have Sex, Xuanlin Tham makes a case for the enduring importance of the sex scene The sex scene is statistically disappearing from our screens, in parallel with the rise of increasingly commonplace anti-sex scene sentiment. This is a political phenomenon inextricable from our widespread immiseration and violence under late capitalism – one which illuminates the borders of what we are allowed to feel and experience today.
A Manifesto for the Modern Cinematic Sex Scene

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Xuanlin Tham

The sex scene is statistically disappearing from our screens, in parallel with the rise of increasingly commonplace anti-sex scene sentiment. This is …
A Book on the Revolutionary Power of the Sex Scene

1 month ago | i-d.co | Douglas Greenwood |Xuanlin Tham

Be it Anora or Challengers, Babygirl or Nosferatu, it seems there’s nothing more offensive to the terminally online than the act of two (or three) people fucking on-screen. The sex scene has long been a key factor in narrative cinema, and while it’s gathered some vocal defenders and detractors online, to the writer Xuanlin Tham, the exhausted discourse has been misguided from both sides. On one hand, they found some dismissed these expressions of on-screen desire to be gratuitous and unnecessary.
Louis Partridge isn't reading the comments

Nov 10, 2024 | gq-magazine.co.uk | Xuanlin Tham

Louis Partridge can barely utter the word “celebrity” without cringing. That is funny, charming and typical for the actor, who, at 21, has already worked with two Academy Award–winning directors, has 9 million Instagram followers flooding his comments with marriage proposals and Olivia Rodrigo comments, and gets stopped in the street multiple times a day.
Gaza poet Mosab Abu Toha on his new collection Forest of Noise – The Skinny

Oct 27, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Xuanlin Tham

In November 2023, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha was evacuating Gaza with his family through the Rafah border crossing when he was kidnapped by Israeli forces. He describes this experience in On Your Knees, a poem whose stanzas inhabit the harrowing silence between the echo of one heartbeat and the next, between the anticipation of a blow and the stunning pain of its arrival.
Louis Partridge im GQ-Interview: “Ich wollte beweisen, dass ich mehr sein kann als der Teenie-Schwarm von Netflix”

Sep 16, 2024 | gq-magazin.de | Xuanlin Tham

Louis Partridge ist in Hollywood angekommen. Trotzdem gelingt es ihm nicht, sich als Star zu sehen. Wir haben das neue Schauspieltalent zum Gespräch getroffen. Wenn man jung, berühmt und schön ist wie Louis Partridge, können die sozialen Medien ein seltsamer Ort sein. Auf dem Instagram-Account des 21 Jahre alten Schauspielers versammeln sich täglich neun Millionen bewundernde Fans, die seine Bilder mit Liebeserklärungen und Blumen-Emojis fluten.
Louis Partridge is so grounded

Sep 8, 2024 | gq-magazine.co.uk | Xuanlin Tham

If you’re young and famous and beautiful, like Louis Partridge, social media can be a strange place. On the 21-year-old actor’s Instagram, admiring followers – nine million of them – convene daily across geographical space and time, finding community in throwing around declarations of love like flowers at his feet.
Review: Impasse

Aug 15, 2024 | festmag.com | Xuanlin Tham

By Xuanlin Tham Published 15 Aug 2024 Beginning with a voiceover announcing that the performers stand with all oppressed people around the world, including those facing apartheid, Impasse is a celebration of the Black body – rewriting the histories and narratives projected onto it, and rejoicing in it just as a body, too. At the outset, it is an exercise in tension and a refusal of vulnerability.
En iyi 10 Western Filmi

Aug 14, 2024 | gq.com.tr | Xuanlin Tham

Western filmlerinin efsanevi arazisinde gezinmek, çölde tek başınıza kalmak gibi hissettirebilir. Asla korkmayın: sinemanın en ünlü silahşör hikayelerinden, bu türden beklentilerinizin sınırlarını zorlayan öncü filmlere kadar, türün sunduğu en iyi filmlerle dolu bir listemiz var. Hepsinin ortak noktası ise kusursuz bir stil ve insan ahlakı, yalnızlık ve bağlılığa duyulan hayranlık. Kovboylar görkemli bir şekilde geri döndü. Yoksa zaten hiç gitmemişler miydi?
Review: Sawdust Symphony

Aug 13, 2024 | festmag.com | Xuanlin Tham

By Xuanlin Tham Published 13 Aug 2024 Three men walk onto an unassuming raised platform, holding buckets of wooden planks – and what unfolds from there is rather incredible. Wood, hammers, nails, a lathe, and chainsaw are used to craft objects in real time, and wordlessly, the boundaries of the space we initially observe begin to shift, stretch, surprise.