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John Smith is one of the most famous film makers in the world

A very small joke   Gargantuan (1992) Gargantuan is a film about scale. It is short, sweet and a bit silly. The film starts with a gigantic reptile that fills the screen as a voice begins to sing:...

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Roger Hiorns: “A quiet activity in the transformation of forms.”[1]

       Roger Hiorns is not here. He was, but he left. The works hum with his departure, a slight frisson, inaudible and alive. Detergent foam drips lethargically from hollows and crevices. Crystal...

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Artificial memory: the occult practices of Lindsay Seers.

The persistence of vision: light leaves an afterimage on the retina for one twenty-fifth of a second, tinged with the colour of blood. This simple quirk of biology has created an industry: move a...

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By the Light of a Full Moon

The phrase ‘full moon’ conjures up images of silvery light, shadows and mystery. A full moon illuminates the night but it does not reveal all; it has a romantic quality, created by the strange...

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That Which Endures

     Eero Saarinen: Where Today Meets Tomorrow Barbican Art Gallery Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom   Following the success of the 2012 design exhibition, Bauhaus: Art as Life, the Barbican Art...

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Pursuit of the Elusive

PURSUIT OF THE ELUSIVE the Photographic Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami There are two categories of filmmakers, noted Jean-Luc Godard: those who make ‘linear films’ and those who make ‘circular films’....

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The Finder: Sister Corita Kent

1967. Sun streams in between high-flying paper ribbons of red, white and blue. Under the light Californian breeze, they frenetically quiver against the matt blue sky: a frantic, electric-like energy....

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Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way

Go home there is nothing to see. Sounds like a late-night suburban annunciation1, something a mugger would say if caught in the act by an unsuspecting passer-by. No. Sounds like something a disgruntled...

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Ways of Not Seeing

‘Seeing comes before words.’ With this sentence John Berger opened his 1972 text Ways of Seeing. But Berger develops this. Though ‘it is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world’,...

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Conditions for Memory: on Lamia Joreige

In Lamia Joreige’s film Embrace (2004), two figures pull at one another’s arms, moving on and off the grainy screen. Behind the figures cars race past in front of a warehouse. Bathed in red light that...

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