Ambivalent, ironic, alienating. There is a prolonged moment at the beginning of director Alex Ross Perry’s documentary, ...

Palestinian Storytelling, World-Building, and Time Travel: Our Preview of Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF) 2025 The latest Liverpool Arab Arts Festival arrives this Friday. Here, Mike Pinnington ...

Askance tales of a storied city, New York 1995–1996 is photographer Stephen Clarke’s record of a “brief moment” that ...

An Introduction To Psychogeography Psychogeography is more than the psychological effects of the urban environment, argues Maisie Ridgway. Here, she explains why the movement has become a political ...

Veronica Watson: All Together Now “A feeling, a period, a mood.” Mike Pinnington on Veronica Watson, whose portraits – celebrated in new publication All Together Now – currently adorn the Bluecoat’s ...

2022 marks a century of this iconic gothic figure on screen, a milestone celebrated by a new book – Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years. Written by cultural historian and legendary commentator ...

Filming alone, without a crew and seeing hardly any passers by for three days, was a much harder prospect than originally expected. He even got stuck for hours in a muddy Holloway with no way out ...

The Word On The Street: Liverpool In Literature “From the situatedness of the city through to the mediated experience of the symbolic plane.” Anthony Ellis takes a look, via various Liverpool streets ...

Across A Painted Sea: Cian Quayle Visiting Cian Quayle’s retrospective Points Of Departure at the Grosvenor Museum, Stephen Clarke finds a photographer enamoured with the call of the sea… The ...