Another June comes around, and here I am facing another birthday and anniversary of being out. It was round this time last year I made the ‘last’ move in accepting my queerness. There is a lot of significance placed in one’s coming out. It differs for many in its actual […]
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The failure of Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris has found a new purpose beyond Terrence Dixon’s original artistic intention. In an ironic bid to give him a platform, the righteous white filmmaker pins a black man to the gates of the Bastille. If not for Baldwin’s remarkable ability […]
Let’s get things straight, I am not a film maker. This video proves it. I always claim to do things for myself, and this is one of them. I wanted to document my time at the beach. A series of events and sounds that will never happen together again. This […]
Squid Game has taken the headlines of post-Covid television, drawing an audience of almost three times the population of South Korea. In the wake of its success, its creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has confirmed work on the second season of the show saying, “you leave us no choice”, suggestive of a […]
Do not let the name fool you. This is not a film as simple as its title. Possibly depicted is a young transgender and, therefore, is one of a limited corpus of works that is. Today, it was Mubi’s film of the day, and I was excited by the prospect […]
“Your mummy is dead,” her father says, “you know what that means?” This scene and the remaining ninety minutes of the film shows she does not. Play – sliding down the screen of the car – interrupts any concentration on the reality of death. Jacques Doillon’s Ponette (1996) is not […]
Tomorrow they will be wrong, today they are absolutely right; the age is always wrong when it is dead. Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘Writing for one’s age’ When the present becomes the past, it opens itself up for reflection. People will always find things to criticise in hindsight, and it is impossible […]
Tucked behind the undergrowth and an industrial estate, the platform of Rushey Platt Station clings to a slope. Cuttings and embankments are overrun with trees, blocking sunlight from the path, as cyclists pass through like the steam engine’s decades long shadow. On my walks down the railway path I feel […]
Unlike English, the French language relies heavily on grammatical gender. While we can use the pronouns they/them, the only French equivalent is ils/elles (plural male/plural female). There are many other challenges facing the French, with many unwilling to change the language. The innovation of neutral pronouns like iel or ille […]