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A Climate After Crisis: The Tender Landscape of ‘Can I Get A Witness?’
Ann Marie Fleming’s film opens with documentary footage of a burning forest. The harrowing scene is not followed by such violence; instead, chased by golden sunlit shots of a planet healing.
Hannah Tang
Sep 193 min read
Sorda (2025): How A Visual Medium Tells The Story Of A Deaf Woman
Sorda (2025) is a Spanish drama directed by Eva Libertad about a woman named Ángela (Miriam Garlo) who is deaf and leads her life in Spain’s countryside with her partner, Héctor (Álvaro Cervantes). She experiences the new onset of pregnancy and the following stages of early motherhood, whilst facing the frustrations and difficulties which arise within a hearing-normative world.
Darina Babacheva
Sep 174 min read


‘Happyend’: “A Story About The Near Future”
‘Happyend’ (Neo Sora, 2024); Image courtesy of Modern Films Neo Sora’s feature film Happyend was one that I had anticipated with...
Zarah Hashim
Sep 155 min read


Discussions In Diaspora And Film: In Conversation With Stéphane Ly-Cuong And Clotilde Chevalier
Stéphane Ly-Cuong, Clotilde Chevalier, and Phuong Le at the London screening of Dans la Cuisine des Nguyen (Stéphane Ly-Cuong, 2025);...
Zarah Hashim
Sep 1010 min read


“At The End Of The Story”: Strand Magazine On David Lynch
On the 16th of January, director, visionary, and lover of dreams, David Lynch passed, leaving a colossal cavity in the heart of film.
Roxy-Moon Dahal Hodson
Jan 225 min read


“You Develop Your Own Illness": Interview with Françoise Lebrun on her Performance in Vortex
Before we formally sat down to discuss the process behind the creation of 'Vortex', Gaspar Noé’s new cerebral and unforgiving...
Alfie Woodhead
May 27, 20224 min read


The Danger of Free Will on Netflix
As I shut my door, I gleefully banish any possibility of social interaction for the evening. It has been a long day of polite smiles and...
Barney Nuttall
Feb 24, 20224 min read


'Naked' (1993) Review
I’ve been researching theories of cities recently, and in particular how they interact with and perpetuate capitalism. The general...
Thomas Whittaker
Jan 2, 20224 min read


A Fantastic Woman - Trans Awareness Week 2021
In the opening scenes of 'A Fantastic Woman', one could be led to believe that the title is a misnomer. We follow a middle-aged man,...

Lydia Leung
Nov 19, 20214 min read


‘Yi Yi’: Capturing the back of our heads
At first, the seemingly daunting three hours of cinema feels like not enough within seating, or at least just enough to tell the story...
Kevin Wang
Nov 7, 20214 min read
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