Rajesh Komath
In Bramayugam, directed by Rahul Sadasivan and co-written with TD Ramakrishnan, Mammootty challenges Malayalam filmmakers to push boundaries. He portrays Koduman Potti, the last survivor of a crumbling mana, interacting with Arjun Ashokan's Thevan, a low-caste singer seeking...
By Evaggelos Vallianatos
Prologue
The movie Oppenheimer (Universal 2023) startled and pleased me immensely. It was a great cinematic achievement. The blinding white light and almighty rumbling thunder in the music and in the mind of Oppenheimer frightened me. The atom...
Russia and the Nordic countries’ pavilions at this year’s Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious art exhibition, project two different concepts of civilisation, nationalism, and sovereignty that have come to blows in Ukraine.
Newly renovated, brooding, and inward-looking, Russia’s art nouveau...
BY Steven W. Thomas
Last year, I wrote an article—“Ethiopian Women Making Movies”—about the central role of women in a remarkably diverse Ethiopian cinema. At the time, I was concerned primarily with those who lived and worked in Ethiopia’s capital...
The Institute for Global South Studies and Research (IGSSR) is organizing a Special Lecture programme in association with Vakkom Moulavi Memorial and Research Centre (VMMRC) on the theme “Keralam in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Mapping.” Gurnah is the recipient of the...
Desert travel writing tends to evoke feelings of excitement, enthusiasm and surprises. In an article in The Times Literary Supplement, Caroline Eden wrote that deserts “offer a cultural and geographical otherness that suits travel writing.” Calling Ethiopian-born British military...
You would have gone to the forest 100 times, but could spot a tiger only once. But, be rest assured, the tiger would have spotted you 99 times.
In the midst of a recent conversation, Malayalam writer and film maker...
by Susie Day
Susan Sontag. She was a brand long before most writers knew they needed one. Even if you’ve never read a Sontag book, you can still engage with her seriousness by studying her darkly handsome, scathingly sensible face,...
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Mantoa, an octogenarian Mosotho woman living in a remote mountain village in the Lesotho Highlands region, calmly listens to obituaries on the radio every night, hoping to die. "Death has forgotten you," the raconteur...
by Rasna Warah
The 60s, 70s, and 80s are often described as the Golden Age of Indian cinema and Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu had a large number of cinemas devoted to showing films made in Bombay.
East-African Asian influence on cinema...
