Culture

Edward Hopper came of age with cinema. As an artist, he left a lasting mark on it

12 minutes

Life in the buff

Naturists believed nudity was profoundly beneficial to society. In order to spread the message, they took to photography

Annebella Pollen

With human help, AIs are generating a new aesthetics. The results are trippy

9 minutes

At the movies with Pauline Kael – in the arthouse cinema where she got her start

19 minutes

Dizzying discs and obscene wordplay – revisiting Marcel Duchamp’s 1926 film debut

7 minutes

Aristotle goes to Hollywood

Today, the ancient Greek storyteller would be winning Oscars. To learn how, turn to the Poetics, his masterwork on writing

Philip Freeman

The problem with ‘han’ 한 恨

Korean culture is characterised by an untranslatably profound sorrow and regret. Or is that just another stereotype?

Minsoo Kang

The art of the plot twist

Some twists infuriate; others are brilliant. But they both use the surprise story as a self-exploding confidence game

Vera Tobin

A Palme d’Or-winning animation toys with the way our eyes perceive light

5 minutes

Fear not

You might think that horror movies are a delicious, trashy pleasure. But watching them has surprisingly wholesome effects

Mathias Clasen

A whirlwind tour of Hong Kong’s high-rises is an awesome meditation on urbanity

9 minutes

A series of animated illusions illustrates how we project depth on to flat surfaces

8 minutes

Shoddy filmmaking meets the miracle of life in a police training film turned cult classic

11 minutes