Behind the Scenes of ‘Breakwater’
In 1982, a group of Oxford students came together to produce the University’s first feature-length film, Privileged. Why has it taken 40 years to make another? Jemima Chen had the same question, and the answer, it turns out, is because it’s very hard to do. Having raised about £20,000 through
Artist of the Week: Kilian Meissner
Tell me about yourself: Hi, I’m Kilian. I’m a third-year classicist at New, and I have a conducting problem. Aside from music, I also play the viola. How did you first get into conducting? The story I like to tell is that I was very lucky to be playing in the National Children̵
Interview: Alexandra Byrne, Oscar-winning Costume Designer
Alexandra Byrne is an English costume designer, since the 80s she has been designing costumes for theatre, TV, and film. Her career has spanned many different genres as well as mediums, from period dramas (1995 Hamlet, 1998 Elizabeth, 2004 Finding Neverland, 2020 Emma) to Marvel films (2012 The Aven
“Art, yeah? What’s it about?”: The Features team has a LARP
On May Day Eve, some Isis Writers headed to Tap Social, or Atik, or the Bullingdon, but Jules and Isaaq did not. Well, we did, but before our respective events, we decided to pop along to a Live Action Role Play event organised by Xsist Media in advance of Lucas Closs’ play Mitigating Circumstance
An Interview with Thu Thu Aung
Thu Thu Aung is a Myanmar journalist who began working in local newsrooms in 2007 during the Saffron Revolution, and since then has had a long career reporting on ethnic armed conflict, drug syndicates, and human rights abuses in Myanmar. In 2019, her team won the Pulitzer Prize for International Re
Artist of the Week: Izzy Kori
Izzy Kori is a second-year student at Exeter College, studying Fine Art at the Ruskin School. This week we paid her a visit to have a chat about her art, which seems to exist in every conceivable form: sculptures, paintings, set design, animation, often multiple at once… So, Izzy, let’s have
La Grande Bouffe
There is no fate worse than dying with a fully stocked wine cellar. He wasn’t sure where he’d read that, or if he had come up with it himself, but he took those words very seriously. As did they all. There were four of them in the dining room of Château de Montbrun: a Butcher, […]
