What Ails Democracy?: An Interview with Astra Taylor

What Ails Democracy?: An Interview with Astra Taylor

Image credit: National Film Board of Canada In Miami, the struggle to stay above water is manifest. Model buildings are built to test hurricane force winds,[i] while defensive sea walls, high-capacity pumps, and stormwater drainage systems are installed in those areas...
The Chaos of the Void in Zia Anger’s I Remember Nothing

The Chaos of the Void in Zia Anger’s I Remember Nothing

Image credit: Zia Anger My first epileptic seizure happened on a Saturday morning when I was nine years old. I remember the sudden, painful oppressiveness of light and sound and a sharp headache that had me looking towards the ground and wanting to bury my head under...
Feminist Anti-Psychiatry: The Other Side of Underneath

Feminist Anti-Psychiatry: The Other Side of Underneath

Image credit: Bond Made in 1972, Jane Arden’s The Other Side of Underneath was the only British film of the decade to be solo-directed by a woman. A boldly feminist film in its engagement with, and rejection of, the contemporary place of women in British society, the...
Jocelyne Saab and the Anatomy of Trauma

Jocelyne Saab and the Anatomy of Trauma

Image Credit: Jocelyne Saab In Beirut, trauma and destruction make for emblematic bedfellows. Where the Orientalist imaginary sees that city as one of carnal pleasures, the modern history of Lebanon is one of intergenerational trauma woven through decades of wars—a...