Dissects

“I get letters every day from people around the world, saying, ‘Oh my God, thank you for making this’,” says Nina Menkes. “But one woman told me, ‘You’ve ruined all my favourite films’.”Menkes is the director of Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, a documentary arguing that even the most acclaimed classics of cinema have encouraged a culture of sexual harassment of women. Using hundreds of clips, Menkes shows how female characters are consistently framed as the object by the male subject.We see sex scenes full of fragmented…

Backxwash isn’t so much a misunderstood artist as she is perhaps too often underappreciated for what she actually does best. Which is to say, to rap well and experiment with sounds, words and cadence in a fashion that welcomes excitement and danger back into hip-hop’s natural habitat.It’s not uncommon for a cultural figure to have their persona and politics discussed as much as (if not more often than) their creativity. But Backxwash is a hip-hop talent, first and foremost. Upon the release of a her third LP, His…

Mark Cousins’s dynamic and entirely arresting documentary essay, with his distinctive collage of photos, clips and narrative voiceover, returns us to the grisly founding myth of European fascism for its 100th birthday: Benito Mussolini’s March on Rome in 1922: his ragged march of blackshirts from Naples to the capital.On their arrival, and in the face of the marchers’ supposed fascist might, Italy’s abysmal King Victor Emmanuel III simply outdid Chamberlain in timidity, overruled his prime minister Luigi Facta and…

North London singer, songwriter and rapper Zakhar is back with his latest single, “Better Things”, which arrives with a new set of visuals directed by Chris Chance.Produced by Phrxlla, with additional production from Deps Music, it’s another prime example of the 18-year-old’s finely tuned balancing act that pairs delicate songwriting with a dark and crisp instrumental that’s pure LDN. For the video, Chris Chance continues that interplay of the rough and the smooth, artfully arranging shots of Zakhar and a small group of…