Author Lina Jurdeczka

https://vimeo.com/189570347 What makes us want to tell the stories of our lives? Perhaps it’s the fear of being forgotten after we die. Maybe it’s about taking ownership of them, to avoid somebody...

https://vimeo.com/165461598 When it comes to the spaces we live in, there are few topics as contested as clutter. While some people are devoted to and even thrive in the midst of creative chaos, others...

Less than a week into the new year we can finally sit back and rest after December’s blur of Christmas shopping and family visits. Everything is beginning to go back to normal now, and we have almost...

One of my favourite things to do as a kid was to look at my great-grandmother’s collection of photographs. Unlike most people of her generation she didn’t keep them in neatly-sorted photo albums, but...

If John Waters, the self-proclaimed pope of trash and director of Pink Flamingos (1972) and Hairspray (1988), were to direct a family film for the holiday season, it would probably look a little like Grey...

A few years ago I took a Film Studies course at university. One of the classes dealt with cinephilia – the love of film. At the beginning of the session, the lecturer asked an interesting question that...

When people ask Quentin Tarantino if he went to film school, he tells them ‘no, I went to films.’ With ways to express the love for the cinema as diverse as film itself, actually creating the art one loves...

"Let's not talk about the good old times, but the bad new ones." - Bertolt Brecht In recent years the cinema has frequently been talked about as a lost cause. Regardless of the fact that home viewing was...

There is a scene in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (2003) when the three main characters race through the Louvre in Paris, attempting to break a world record. A direct reference to Bande à Part (1964),...

In a career spanning almost 50 years, Woody Allen’s style has become synonymous with and perhaps helped define the cultural stereotype of the self-deprecating, anxious intellectual in New York City. Full of...