Badger
@Bertrom
In a past life, I was a film teacher, photographer, theatre director and film editor. Now a psychogeographer and Jungian explorer searching for my Anima.
I lie awake more and more during the hour of the wolf, between night and dawn…when most people die and nightmares are most real. It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their worst anguish, when ghosts and demons are most powerful. My hallucinations are also more real.
Understanding the creative legacy of Alick Phiri seems like grasping a light through the slats of history, through old images that convey nostalgia; the fleeting brilliance of photographs that define the zeitgeist of life in the 70s and 80s Lusaka society. apple.news/Aak5f047XS6SiR…
Israel’s relentless violence compels conscientious citizens to stand up for Palestinians. But now, compassion is being criminalised, most aggressively across the West, which has long proclaimed the importance of freedom, openness and fairness. apple.news/Af3gtj02KS-OGm…
Don't Look Now. Directed by Nicholas Roeg. Arguably my favourite film, amongst hundreds, because it speaks directly to my soul. “Nothing is what it seems”, is a casual line of dialogue that becomes an exploration of the act of perception, and the art of filmmaking itself.
Constantine Manos. Aunt at the funeral of her nephew killed in Vietnam. 1966. A staggering image.
Jason Eskenazi. I was always very interested by novels and movies for structure and characters. I studied 19th century literature and psychology, which proved very useful in creating my books.
“They’ve actually not taken anything that could be classed as illegal but it’s very confusing that they’re beginning to think anything connected to Palestine or support for Palestine is illegal in some way.” Deeply troubling. apple.news/A3pb5FO7VSgGXk…
Louis Stettner. His time as a combat photographer during the Second World War shaped both his worldview and his photographic approach, deepening his belief and his commitment to capturing working-class subjects. apple.news/AGp4KgZGBRTa9q…
Cowering in the corner will not save us from the far-right. Paying superficial lip-service to their prejudices will not defeat them. apple.news/AWiUZ9pAzSv-VD…
There were so many highlights teaching my two year film study course, and one of them was when I taught Vertigo and introduced my classes to The Kuleshov effect. masterclass.com/articles/what-…
For her series North North South, Iranian American artist Ayda Gragossian wandered through different areas of the city on foot. apple.news/AyRxwNBT1RcGh5…
Israel. Fake state.
Israel is a fake state, a Western colonial outpost planted in 1948 on stolen Palestinian land, propped up by imperial powers like the US and UK to serve their geopolitical interests. It’s not a legitimate nation but a settler-colonial project, as scholars like Ilan Pappé have…
Israel is a fake state, a Western colonial outpost planted in 1948 on stolen Palestinian land, propped up by imperial powers like the US and UK to serve their geopolitical interests. It’s not a legitimate nation but a settler-colonial project, as scholars like Ilan Pappé have…
When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. Hannah Arendt.
Two-year-old Yezen Abu Ful lives with his family in Al-Shati Camp, Gaza City. This world should be ashamed. Isreal is a pariah state. It should be condemned, but those who have the power in the west to condemn, are complicit in genocide.
The atomisation of society into isolated individuals incapable of cooperating as social communities, now finds nothing above them but the all-powerful states. This is where we are, and social media and geopolitics has achieved its goal.
The US of f***ing A and the U f***ing K are allowing this and funding this. Where in the world are we? There are no more ‘good guys’. It is all geopolitical imperialism as it always has been. We should be f***ing deeply ashamed. This is 2025. apple.news/AsrBTcWi5Swyoq…
The last Night that She lived It was a Common Night Except the Dying This to Us Made Nature different We noticed smallest things Things overlooked before By this great light upon our Minds Italicised as 'twere. Emily Dickinson.
