Maudie – Review Ersin Ali August 4, 2017 Reviews What makes good art? What is good art? What is art? Perhaps these questions shouldn’t even be asked. After all: one man's rubbish is another’s treasure, and isn't beauty in the eye of the...
Berlin Syndrome – Review Ersin Ali June 8, 2017 Reviews Perhaps only sitting in a freezing igloo where, instead of perfect blocks of ice, long thin steely icicles provide just enough contact with the outer world recreates the feeling of Berlin Syndrome. The...
Short of the Week – Mend and Make Do Ersin Ali April 10, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/209115026 When looking backwards in time it is easy to wryly smile at the use of the phrase 'Back in my day' or 'When I was younger...'. These clichés, denote something humorous about...
I Am Not Your Negro – Review Ersin Ali April 7, 2017 Reviews "White is a metaphor for power". From its opening credits to the close, viewers of I Am Not Your Negro would be forgiven for feeling like being at the end of an LAPD police baton; mercilessly and repeatedly...
Mr. Long – Berlinale 2017 Review Ersin Ali February 14, 2017 Reviews It is hard not to think that when Sabu set about writing, and eventually getting in the chair for, Mr. Long, he hadn't just got up from watching Refn's Drive for the umpteenth time. So, is this the Eastern...