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Thousands marched on Saturday, one day after Trump was sworn in as the nation's 45th President. Actress, marcher, and daughter of Honduran immigrants America Ferrera took to the stage in Washington to speak about what a Trump presidency means for her.
As the entire world looks on to the run-up to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday, we thought we’d share this suitably prophetic video from Pussy Riot released back in October 2016.
Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same.
Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) are waiting.
Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.
"A true crime story, meticulous and thrilling“
- Hamburg Morning Post
"A shocking story of love and betrayal"
- Taz
There’s nothing lashings of rain and darkened afternoons are more suited to than a true crime thriller. Especially one as compelling as this.
From Friday 13th January, Bertha Dochouse will be screening The Promise, a film focused on unravelling the international media storm created when Elizabeth Haysom and her boyfriend Jens Soering were convicted of murdering Elizabeth’s parents.
The 2016 winner of the London Short Film Festival was a truly European bringing together of filmmaking talent - a Russian, British and Czech co-production, seeing a collaboration between the London Film School, Prague’s FAMU and the SiberiaDOC development scheme, helmed by LFS grad Sofia Safonova and filmed in her hometown of Krasnoyarsk in Southern Siberia.
Singer songwriter Jain collaborates with Quad Group’s new platform Art Bridge to glorious ends in Makeba. Directors Greg & Lio of Quad Productions, saw Makeba as an ideal opportunity to work with different artists and asked Art Bridge to support them on this creative adventure.
"I'm not interested in posterity, which is a paltry form of eternity."
We say goodbye to Leonard Cohen this week - here is a lovely interview from the archives where he talks about writing poetry, being quiet, and the difference between shining shoes and governing countries.
First there was an opportunity......then there was a betrayal.
Twenty years have gone by.
Much has changed but just as much remains the same.
Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home.
They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle).
Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.
Alejandro Jodorowsky never fails to mesmerise; kissing the visual senses with beautiful and surreal imagery he takes the viewer on sensitively imaginative journey … not one to be missed.
This video is dedicated to you if you are staring at a blank page, if you are struggling to make a deadline, if you are procrastinating, if you are losing optimism, if you are jealous of your friends, if you are eating cereal for every meal, if you can't be bothered to go to a party because at the party someone will ask you "What have you been up to recently?" and all you have been up to is staring at a blank page while a bowl of Cheerios coagulates next to you.
Suffering is bad for your art. Go and catch a beautiful fish.
