A spell of forbidden sins, depravity, and redemption. In this post-festival piece, our guest writers Jade Barget and Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee (XING) reflect on the never-ending fall of a woman, responding to the exaltation and dissidence against an unjust world. I’m gripped in a fever dream.
In celebration of selling out our only physical screening of the year, the Singaporean premiere of Leos Carax’s absolutely bonkers Annette, we invited animator and illustrator @mere.space to draw a suitably cryptic but succinct visual response to a crucial scene in the film. And no, it isn’t that scene with Adam Driver. Get your head out of the gutter!
In Shooting the Mafia, the images that photographer Letizia Battaglia captured in the streets of Sicily took aim at the heart of the Mafia—the aftermath of senseless murders, the spontaneous portraits of crusading anti-Mafia political figures, and the striking faces of grieving families.