“Spirits return because something in the social fabric was left unfinished—an unacknowledged injustice, a normalized cruelty, a promise broken within a rigid order that leaves little room for repair.”
History into Fear: The Ghosts of Edo
Zeinabu irene Davis
“Surrounded by people who were almost entirely unrepresented in film, Davis found her calling. She returned to the US galvanised — she would dedicate her career to telling their stories.”
Magpies Mix Tape: Where I’m From
Songs about home: missing home, leaving home, memories of home, defining home.
Cinema as a Memory of Nature
“Cinema becomes an unofficial archive—not of triumph, but of evidence. It records not what we achieved, but what we allowed to disappear.”
A Short Anti-Fascist Playlist
“To them, popular culture mattered, it was vibrant, and it was politically up for grabs.”
The Flickering Ghost: What Remains When the Projector Goes Dark?
“The greatest films, I have always believed, are empathy machines. They allow us to see the world through eyes that are not our own.” A beautiful love letter to cinema by Amir Zadnemat
The Man and The Crowd (1928) Photography, Film, and Fate
Gideon Leek rewatches King Vidor’s classic, in which a young man with big dreams moves to New York City and becomes an identical cog who learns to love the machine of modernity.
Triumphant Woe: Reimagining Climate Lament with Andromeda Turre
In our age of environmental collapse, socio-political polarization, and brutal warfare, the jazz composer Andromeda Turre has created a new album that pulls the listener into “a dark night of the senses” and configures a space of hope.
Magpies Mix Tape: The Merry Blues
A mix tape of the music of Manu Chao and friends
Olive Borden (on Fig Leaves)
“A month later I am dead. So, girls, if you want my advice, never play Eve, the mother of all men.”
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