Brighton Beach
This was captured in Brighton Beach, one of Brooklyn’s most colorful neighborhoods. It is populated by the elderly parents of Russian immigrants and a stream of novelty pilgrims. Requiem for a Dream was shot here, and the locals sometimes make it look like filming is still in process. I w
Student Documentary Premiere: Stadium Hotel
Stadium Hotel A Portrait of Lagos and its Musicians in the Years After Independence Lagos, Nigeria, 1960. Highlife, a West African musical form which had been developing since the early twentieth century, was at its peak. In the years that followed Independence, a young generation of musicians playe
God’s own country? Communism in Kerala
Away from the luxury hotels, souvenir shops and restaurants, there were blazing red flags, election posters, hammers and sickles painted on faded walls. Battered cars drove round with loudspeakers blaring out campaign slogans in Malayalam, the language of the state. But there is no Stalinist governm
Multilating Words, by Michael Hunt
The first in a selection of poems we will be publishing from the ISIS Magazine Poetry Competition.
Desperate Bicycles
Five men, with £153 in savings and borrowed money, rent a recording studio in desolate, decaying Dalston for three hours. They say they’re a band, but they haven’t rehearsed and they only own one instrument and one amplifier between them...
‘Bird on a Wire’ Screening, with Director Tony Palmer
ISIS presents a screening of the classic documentary about Leonard Cohen’s 1972 European tour: ‘Bird on a Wire’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hyd_ygJviQ Featuring exclusive Q & A with the legendary film maker himself: Tony Palmer Tony Palmer’s lengthy and prolific caree
ISIS.Evolve – Issue Launch Party (7th Week)
On Wednesday of 7th, ISIS will be taking over Babylove for the last time this term for its climax THE ISSUE LAUNCH. Come down to celebrate the end of a great term, the end (or lack) of exams, and the start of the summer proper! As usual, ISIS staff will be on hand if […]
Clive Wearing
Clive Wearing, a successful British composer and musicologist, lost his ability to form new memories when part of his brain was destroyed by a virus which usually would have given him cold sores. With no ability to remember what has happened only seconds in the past, he is continually suspended in a