Society Archives - Trebuchet

The Beauty of Packaging

24/01/2022

Owning something physical, the open-eyed landscape of the tactile imagination....

LandOfDreams, Ghasem Ebrahimian Bon Voyage Films and Palodeon Pictures, (2021)

Hark the Nordic Sirens of Hypnotic Cinema

06/01/2022

Göteborg Film Festival promises a genre-breaking crossover of vision and transcendence. ...

Maya Stanfield-Mazzi’s book provides the first broad survey of church textiles of Spanish America, demonstrating that, while overlooked, textiles were a vital part of visual culture in the Catholic...

Shot To Fame: Remembering Terry O’Neill

16/11/2020

'One Year On' Box Galleries highlights the late photographer Terry O'Neill's eternal talent. ...

Virginia Woolf Might Have Preferred an Audiobook

16/11/2020

What Was Virginia Woolf Afraid Of? shines brightest when it focuses not on Woolf’s life, but on her actual words and how she used them. ...

Imagining Orwell in Three Continents

13/11/2020

Julio Etchart's photographic journal presents a short cautionary tale that questions the foreshadowing of one man's visionary works and the cyclical quality of time. ...

Wardruna – Norwegian Contemporary Folk Art

18/10/2020

“Kvitravn” is a song that explores traditions of animal-guides and the symbolism and legends of sacred white animals...

Underdogs Will Rise, Biography as Music

05/10/2020

A Review of James Kennedy "Noise Damage: My Life As a Rock’N’ Roll Underdog" (Lightning Books, 2020)...

The Surrealist Practice of Twenty-First Century Populism

14/09/2020

‘Surreal’ is a word that many increasingly reach for, a (hopelessly inadequate) description for the daily cavalcade of cataclysmic and bizarre events we’re confronted by....

Espresso, Chianti… Maser-a-ti!

22/07/2020

In 2020: The Summer of COVID, interweb-streaming Italian-racecar cool is about as close to true freedom as car buffs are likely to get. ...

In Bright Axiom: The House of the Latitude

14/07/2020

As an introduction to the secret society, this documentary is a disjointed narrative where the whole is less than the sum of occasionally fascinating parts....

Always-On, All-the-Time: COVID in the World of 24/7 News

01/07/2020

Two decades into a fundamentally new media environment, we’re still discovering the impact of the Internet on the information we consume — COVID-19 exposes some of the damage done....

© Nicola Anthony, date stamp drawing, 2006

Surviving Lockdown: On Community and Inclusivity

19/06/2020

Part five of Surviving Lockdown talks creating strong community groups to help rebuild society post-pandemic, with anti-racism as an intrinsic part of a new future. ...

When Gonzo Met Farce

05/06/2020

Conception unknown, The Buried Spitfires of Burma: A ‘Fake’ History is a tortured love child of Thompson’s Rum Diary and Poe’s "Gold Bug". ...

Isolation Walks: A Visual Meditation

03/06/2020

If we are ever to emerge from this dystopian vision with poise, we will have to be extra humble, strong and empathetic. ...

Architecture and Aesthetic Errors

29/05/2020

Modernist architecture, seen as art, falls into aesthetic error when it fails to address the nature of the lives encompassed by it....

© Nicola Anthony, The Flow of Time, 2017

Surviving Lockdown: Daryl Goh on Self-Judgement

27/05/2020

Up next in the series, Nicola Anthony examines guilt, and how artists can objectively evaluate their own work whilst ignoring the niggling voice of self-judgement. ...

Gorillas, Trains, Whips and Chains

20/05/2020

Barring no holds, Hollywood Bound is a well-curated, hilariously captioned collection of major-studio movie bondage that serves up equal helpings entertainment and old-Hollywood nostalgia. ...

His Holiness Blinded Me With Science

16/05/2020

If the viewer focuses intensely in The Dalai Lama: Scientist, such effort will be rewarded with insight, if not total consciousness…...

Surviving Lockdown: Tabish Khan and the Inner Critic

06/05/2020

Part three explores the feelings of self-lambasting that many people experience when given the time and space to turn the critical eye upon their lives. ...

The Unnatural History Museum

01/05/2020

Where many other, more famous museums may pay a nod here and there to the strange, the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities is devoted to it....

Surviving Lockdown: What Do We Surround Ourselves With?

30/04/2020

The next instalment in our series of interviews to pick up tips from the arts to help get through this unusual period....

Punk Rock Fight Club: The Beat Down at CBGB

29/04/2020

Anarchy is a return to the natural order. Might makes right. If you are a punk in the pit, you might get hit. ...

© Nicola Anthony, Poetry Net Series, 2019

Surviving Lockdown: Behind the Scenes in the Art Studio

29/04/2020

A series of video interviews with figures from the art world explores transferrable skills from the arts to help survive these out-of-the-ordinary times. ...

Bravado, Humility and Bloody-Mindedness

03/04/2020

Alongside writer Olivier Bocquet, comic book artist Jean-Marc Rochette has created an unusual autobiographical account of his experiences as a climber....

London’s Lost Bohemia and the Three Graces of Soho Pt. III

25/03/2020

A recent interview with cult novelist Laura Del Rivo triggers memories of a lost poetess and a mysterious countess. ...

London’s Lost Bohemia and the Three Graces of Soho Pt. II

18/03/2020

A recent interview with cult novelist Laura Del Rivo triggers memories of a lost poetess and a mysterious countess. ...

London’s Lost Bohemia and the Three Graces of Soho

11/03/2020

A recent interview with cult novelist Laura Del Rivo triggers memories of a lost poetess and a mysterious countess....

Saucy, Piquant, With a Faustian Aftertaste

30/12/2019

A film for a specific taste is Phillip Humm's The Last Faust really that indigestible? A review and an entreaty for more divisive filmmaking ...

An Election Waiting to Happen with Billy Bragg

10/12/2019

Every generation has to find its own way to deal with the problems it faces. Red Wedge was our generation and it came out of a specific set of circumstances. Other generations will find other ways....

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