The 2011 film, This is Not a Film, is a documentary created by and centered around Iranian filmmaker, Jafar Panahi, as he goes about day-to-day life under house arrest and censorship forced on him by the Iranian government. Throughout the film, Panahi is shown attempting to appeal his sentencing of
Day: October 7, 2024
Cultural appropriation is bad right? We shouldn’t do it, right? It’s a borderline crime to appropriate someone else’s culture, we all agree. We’ll who is we? A seemingly dumb question that somehow got lost in translation. Capitalism strikes again. American culture has become so entranced with capitalistic values that even
In the 1980’s, Richard Serra built the “Tilted Arc” in front of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in lower Manhattan, New York City. This piece of artwork was, to simply put it, a hunk of steel. However, the creative backstory to the idea was much more intricate. Serra had