Mary Shelley (2018)
Director: Haifaa al-Mansour. Kino-teatr 17th JanuaryReviewed by Simone Witney This film is the result of a collaboration between the screen writer, Emma Jenson and Haifaa al Mansour, the first female film director to come from Saudi Arabia. Haifaa was the eighth…
HIP CLASSICS: Paris, Texas. Ithaca. Same Timing, Different Time
There’s a very moving scene in director Wim Wenders’ film ‘Paris,Texas’ in which Harry Dean Stanton’s character, finding his long lost wife, played by Nastassja Kinski, tells her the story of their disastrous love through the medium of a one-way…
HIP Views Cycling from the Slipstream
If you think that a bunny hop is the kind of jump a rabbit does when it’s surprised, then you’re clearly a turkey or a squirrel. In the cycling world, a bunny hop is what you do when both wheels…
Raw Refinement
The RAW Show at Omega Studios 28th September to 28th October, curated by Tessa Sambrook Review by Simone Witney This is a truly extraordinary show; not just for the quality of its diverse objects, but for the sheer excitement of…
HIP CLASSICS: The Odyssey: The Pursuit of Paradise
In almost my most favourite book, The Mark and The Void by Paul Murray, a Greek waitress hands a customer some baklava and says: “In Greek we say nostimo. Which means, hmmm, something you want to come back to. You…
Pygmalion Turns Abstract
Bernard Mcguigan Sculpture Show at The Lawn 1st–2nd September and in his studio at The Beacon during Coastal Currents. Preview by Simone Witney In the middle of a delightful conversation with Bernard Mcguigan, I realise I’m really witnessing a story…
Sea Kale Cafe: Abseiling Chef Tops Out In St. Leonards
Sea Kale is a small cafe in London Rd near the centre of Opened early this year by Matt and Emma Kennard-Bowen, it’s on the shady side of the street, but the decor, the colours of sea-buffed glass, gives a…
Spools Out
Themed film screenings for families. Dress up and chill out Review by Simone Witney How often do we wish to tear children away from their devices for something more natural and serendipitous: making ships by moving the furniture in the…
Land
an exhibition of Sally Cole’s work at Thompson Spare Art, Tunbridge Wells, and Stables Studios, Barley Lane. 30th June - 1st July. ‘a mass of beauty harvested from grand materials’* Review by Simone Witney The experience of viewing Sally Cole’s…
Creative Cosmos: The Beacon
If you can tear yourself away from the stunning view which hurls a shining arc of sea at you on the bend of Priory Road, you’ll find a ragged path forking to the left as Plynlimmon Road begins. This may…