“I will only accept being my own genre”: an interview with Porpentine
CYBERQUEEN starts with a black screen and just one word to click: ‘wet’. From there, things spiral. It starts off a simulacrum of any parser game you might imagine: sci-fi kitsch, ‘navigation chamber west’, a copious selection of guns whose capabilities are described in fetishistic detail. N
The Last Hurrah: an interview with legendary photographer Dafydd Jones.
Dafydd Jones is a documentary photographer who launched his career in the eighties with his photo series ‘Bright Young Things’ for the Sunday Times. Throughout the early eighties, he documented the raucous balls, black tie dinners and boat burnings of Oxford’s upper echelons, photographing the
Artist of the Week: Lydia Free
Lydia is a second-year at Keble studying Italian and Linguistics. In MT22, she co-founded Peach Productions and had her directorial debut with Wishbone. In HT23, she went on to direct Every Brilliant Thing, and last week finished directing Hedda Gabler, which sold out two days before opening nig
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
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 [&
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
Artist of the Week: Leah Aspden
This week we spoke to Leah Aspden, a 3rd year English student at St Anne’s, who does “too much theatre, probably”. She is an actor, comedian, and the new President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. Hi Leah! We’ve seen you play Macbeth in Macbeth, Lucifer in Immaculate, and the
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
