Artistic expression has the power to take the world and its people into an era of progressive thought and action, but have recent changes put a damper on those efforts, or just fuelled the fire even more? There has been a lot in the news lately. We are in an era of change. [...]
Technical advancement in film technology never seems to cease, the newest advancement being accepted by festivals is virtual reality (VR) and 360° films. From the perspective of a filmmaker does this new technology allow one to expand on the world of the film, to allow the audience to truly experience the film as the [...]
Wes Anderson is a cinematic force who has marked his territory with his quirky and authentic style, making him one of the most recognised modern auteur directors, amongst some of the greatest directors of all time, from the likes of David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese and Alfred Hitchcock who have all contributed into [...]
There are myriad ideas that could be explored under the heading ‘Visual art in the 21st Century’; to thoroughly discuss and do justice to such a theme one would surely need to spend far longer behind the keyboard than I have on this occasion. Nonetheless, I have, admittedly somewhat arbitrarily, selected a few sub-topics [...]
Ghost In the Shell began life in 1989, created by writer/illustrator Masamune Shirow as a series of manga comics which followed the counter-cyberterrorist organisation Section 9 in a futuristic neo-Japan. The popularity of this initial series developed into a medium spanning franchise, with television shows, video games, action figures, novels and apps, furthering Shirow’s [...]
