Author Ioannis Mookas

14-28 June 2007 Ascend from the tunnel, and there are the scaffolds: that is New York. Block upon block, scaffolding pens the sidewalks and girds the wreckage. What they call development. Where towers do...

Like fellow Canadian Guy Maddin, Gonick hails from Winnipeg, the city at the heart of Stryker, his visually arresting feature film shot by noted cinematographer Ed Lachman. That and much else about this distinctive film are discussed in depth.

June 9-23, 2005 Around Memorial Day in New York, it’s not unusual to hear cinephiles say they’re excited about the upcoming Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (HRWIFF), and then catch thems...

From the wide span of the Congress Avenue bridge in Austin, it was possible to mark the autumn equinox this September by gazing up that long avenue at the Texas state capitol building, watching the plum-sta...

Uppermost on everyone's agenda right now, in New York as in the rest of the U.S., is purging our government of the malignancy that has subsumed it. So at five months and counting to election day, it was wit...

Over seven changeling days in March, during which the bombings of four commuter trains in Madrid left hundreds dead or wounded and sealed the electoral overthrow of Spain's ruling party a mere three days la...