A Cannes Diary
Attending the Cannes Film Festival has long been a dream of mine, and became a particular goal of my year abroad, so much so that I craftily positioned myself in the South of France for the second half of my year, just twenty minutes from Cannes. So, when I was finally walking along La Croisette [&h
Review: Metamorphosis
“You should be hearing this in your left ear.” “You should be hearing this in your right ear.” I was. The voice of Sonya Luchanskaya delivered these words through the respective drivers on my personal headphone set, which were waiting at my seat as I walked into the Michael P
Emerging Blinking: ‘Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality’ at the Ashmolean
The Ashmolean’s Sainsbury Gallery is rarely so atmospheric. Dark walls loom over codices and drypoint, partitions make the rooms themselves maze-like, and the space is given a feeling of hushed silence – normally. On my third visit, it’s Summer VIIIs, and viewers huddle in the cool away from t
The Isis interviews Tan Pin Pin, award-winning Singaporean filmmaker
Interviewing a consummate documentary maker is a dangerous game. Only ten minutes into our interview do I realise Tan Pin Pin has been fielding all the questions, and that I’ve been giving her a dull, derivative account of my university life (Shakespeare, procrastination, The Isis Magazine). Hoist
Artist of the Week: Eulalia D’Souza
Tell us a bit about yourself. I’m Eulalia-Marie. I turned 21 yesterday. My parents are from India, and some of my grandparents are from Kenya. I write poetry, and I want to write prose but I suck at big projects. I have a really short attention span. I call it a “sunburnt attention span” as [&
Rock’n’roll flotsam: Bar Italia at the Jericho Tavern
On Sunday 14th May, a mixed crowd of students, locals, and (according to The Times) “various figureheads from Oxford’s music scene” gathered in the Jericho Tavern for a show by Bar Italia, a London-based band currently touring to promote their new album, Tracey Denim. I use the word ‘perform
The Last Dinner Party: you are cordially invited to tone it up
The Last Dinner Party have only released one single and yet they’ve supported the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park, played a sold-out show at Camden Assembly and are performing on the Woodsies (fka John Peel) stage at Glastonbury, shared with Christine and the Queens, Rina Sawayama and many more. How i
Artist of the Week: Hugo Max
Your room is full of giraffes, on birthday cards, figurines, blankets. They pop up in a lot of your recent work. Why giraffes? Where to begin with giraffes? There’s an old Jewish joke that giraffe meat would be kosher, but they don’t know where to cut the neck. Which, purely from a paint
Hide and Seek with the Brain
The brains of today remind me of hamsters on wheels: forever playing catch-up, running from one day into the next, set on rebuilding themselves. At times, stretching themselves awake in a baby, and later, spreading across the sky. There are two types of people who can teach you a great deal about th