Art & Culture

Q: ‘It felt like love’

India –  Known for testing definitions and boundaries, Q is a uniquely transitional director filmmaker. His most recent picture adapts Rabindranath Tagore’s Tasher Desh to the schizoid and lonely screen-mediated

Marc Codsi: The Art of Surrender

Lebanon – Wildly defiant of restrictive categorization, Marc Codsi has been indispensable in the proliferation and development of the fledgling Lebanese music scene as it exists today. His eclectic ventures,

Chang-Jin Lee: Comfort Women Wanted

South Korea –  This project is based on my trips to Asia since 2008, interviewing the Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Filipino, and Dutch “comfort women” survivors, and a former Japanese

Barmer Boys: Nomad Merasi Minstrels

India –   Blending an emphatically distinguishable medley of traditional and contemporary sounds, the Barmer Boys underline eclecticism as they infuse harmonies from instruments like the morchang, bhapang and khartaan

Phillip K. Smith III: Lucid Stead

U.S.A – On the weekend of October 12th in Joshua Tree, California, artist Phillip K Smith III revealed his light based project, Lucid Stead. What was expected to be a two

James Rawson’s Postmodern Pop Art

England –  Predominantly working in the medium of collage and painting, James found no inspiration in the beautiful Norfolk landscape he grew up in. Instead realizing the landscape of pop culture fed

Zhang Huan: The Man with Three Legs

China- Currently based in Shanghai after working out of New York for eight years, Chinese artist Zhang Huan creates art which is both personal and extensively politicised. His art knows no bounds in

Nina Pappa: Timed Gazings

Greece – Usually, repeated passage through the places that surround our daily life deprives us of conscious contact with them. The gazings presented in this project constitute an effort to

#High #Higher #SUPERHIGH!

Germany –  Arte co-production explores nine ways to get high without drugs German artist duo Boris Eldagsen and Sabine Taeubner produced SUPERHIGH, a 40-minute film using mockumentary and reality-show elements