Hearing Aid / 09 Jan 2025
The Erdoğan Effect
From Gezi Park to Rojava
Welcome to Hearing Aid, the new Battleground column dedicated to field recording and found political sounds.
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Culture
Charlie Bertsch / 08 Jan 2025
When Datedness is Contemporary
S.Y.P.H.
The reissue of the eponymous 1980 debut album by the German band S.Y.P.H. is reason to rejoice for anyone who loves the experimental music-making that followed in the wake of punk.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 18 Dec 2024
The Living and the Dead
Fanny and Alexander, by Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander is an easy film to remember and a hard film to remember correctly.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 04 Dec 2024
Algerian War Epic
Agnes Varda’s Cléo
Agnes Varda’s 1962 film Cléo From 5 to 7 is a light film about the heaviest subject of all.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 27 Nov 2024
Reinvigorating the Past
Bzdet’s Mgla
Bzdet keeps finding ways to sharpen an edge that had stopped being cutting.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 20 Nov 2024
Youth Under Dictatorship
Victor Erice’s Spirit of the Beehive
In Victor Erice’s 1973 film The Spirit of the Beehive, the Spanish Civil War is felt in nearly every scene, even though overt references do not surface until the final third of the picture.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 13 Nov 2024
Cognitive Mapping the Future
Londonunderlondon, by Mark Fisher and Justin Barton
Londonunderlondon points a way forward by leading us into the past.(...)
Henrietta Foster / 12 Nov 2024
Family Life is Hell
The Wild Duck, Directed by Alan Lucien Øyen
Sometimes, one goes to the theatre and sees a perfect production, determined never to see that play again because nothing could equal it.(...)