The Rising Waters of the Yangtze
Yangtze – The Long River by Nadav Kander Nadav Kander: Yangtze – The Long River is available as a book. Other recommendations can be found in our online bookshop.
The Environmental Portrait in Koyaanisqatsi
Las Vegas waitresses in Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi. In Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, a group of middle-aged Las Vegas waitresses look straight into the camera as they are captured in time lapse. This brief scene in Koyaanisqatsi adds to the film’s complex montage of visually arresting sequences that explore the condition of late capitalism. The position of…
Laurel Nakadate’s Controlled Voyeurism
Laurel Nakadate, Oops!, 2000 The noughties are commonly described as a decade in which celebrity culture proliferated, a decade which saw a massive increase in the commodification of sexualized imagery, also the decade of voyeurism via TV shows such as Big Brother. The American video artist and photographer Laurel Nakadate, born in 1975 and raised…