Andrei Tarkovsky’s painterly, moody films capture something that is hard to describe, a sense of searching and bleakness at the same time. There are deep, fundamental questions at the centre of his films: it is as though the structures of the world are recognisable but translucent, as though something exists but has lost its essential… Read More The Memory of Embers
There is a moment in the film Wizards of the Kremlin when the protagonist, Baronov, describes information warfare as “twisting a wire”. It doesn’t matter which way you twist the wire, what you believe in, or who is impacted. The brilliance is in finding an opening to insert the twisted wire and start shredding national… Read More Twisted Wire – Subversion and Information Warfare (Part One of an Occasional Series)
Hollow Places 