Irezumi

"Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly; " 'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy…" "Oh no, no!" said the little fly, "to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stai...

Two-Legged Horse

In the first moment we had never a thought That they were creatures to be owned and used. Among them were some half a dozen colts Dropped in some wilderness of the broken world, Yet new as if they had come ...

The Secret

It’s strange to witness a film so visually bewitching and yet so narratively disorganised. Fūng gip (The Secret, Ann Hui, 1979) is such a film: completely beautiful, dark, and unsettling, yet at times incoheren...

Caesar Must Die

“His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, “This was a man.”” -   Anthony, in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. For Vittorio and Paolo T...

Heave Ho!

The rhythmic cogs of the machinery click and shuffle, a steady beat emerges with each press of the tin, each bubble of the milk. A behemoth of industrial power, the milk-cannery seems to twitch and stir as thou...