philosophy
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While the Green Grass Grows
LIFE: A unique and personal cinematic exploration of the flow of rivers and lives, including the passing of his parents and global questions.
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What tricks does the Catholic right have to define itself as the centre of Europe
THE WEST: European culture is «characterized by a melancholic feeling due to its alienation or inferiority towards a source that evokes a nostalgic feeling.» Really?
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The long farewell to parents
AGEING: More people are getting older, but there are fewer to take care of them.
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Beyond body and mind
ANATOMY: Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema.
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The Chinese dream: «Our time has come»
GEOPOLITICS: Is the current systemic divide between the US and China insurmountable?
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A politically correct decolonisation ideology?
MODERNISATION: Nigerian professor Olùfèmi Táíwò examines power relations between former colonised and colonialists. All states struggle to adapt modern institutions to their own history, cultural context, and ideological climate. But can the demand for decolonizing language become absurd?
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Jean-Luc Godard: Death was waiting
CINEMA: Four films and two books – can they capture something about this newly dead legend of cinema? Let me try, especially with Godard’s intellectual autobiography and two new films about him.
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«Mallorca is an island full of secrets»
MAJORDOCS: Ahead of its fourth edition, Modern Times Review speaks with the Mallorca-based «slow» film festival Artistic Director Miguel Eek, on this year's edition and the wonders of its host island.
