Maria Mavropoulou
PHROOM MARIA MAVROPOULOU In Their own image, in the image of God, They created Them websiteinstagram The era of Artificial intelligence is usually imagined as the time when humanoid robots will interact with us in our daily lives. Failing to realize that we have been interacting with AI for some time now already […]
Paolo Bufalini
PHROOM PAOLO BUFALINI The Sleeper website instagram text by: Enrico Camprini The fact that Paolo Bufalini’s research has recently turned towards photography surprised me only at first. Although somewhat intermedial, the path taken by the artist in recent years focuses on a production specifically linked to sculpture, installation – more the former than the latter […]
Last Year at Marienbad
PHROOM Last Year at Marienbad Alain Resnais (France, 1961) text by: Alessandra Cianetti “Last Year at Marienbad” (French: “L’Année dernière à Marienbad”) is a 1961 French feature film directed by Alain Resnais, one of the filmmakers who contributed to the theorization of the Nouvelle Vague, of which he was a faithful representative. It is no […]
MIDORI // The Camellia Girl
MIDORI, The Camellia Girl Can an innocent little girl survive in a world of monsters? text by: Federica Zotti It’s 1984 and Suehiro Maruo, then 28 years old and established in the world of ero-guro manga (a social-artistic movement mixing eroticism and macabre, bizarre, and sometimes nonsense elements) as one of its leading exponents, […]
L’Inferno
PHROOM L’InfernoFrancesco Bertolini, Giuseppe De Liguoro, Adolfo Padovan (Italy, 1911) text by: Matteo Cremonesi The first decades of the last century saw Italian cinema develop with great rapidity an industry which in many ways has been able to distinguish itself for its strong linguistic autonomy. If the blockbuster “Cabiria” (1914) represents the uncontested climax […]
The Fly
DAVID CRONENBERG The Fly text by: Matteo Cremonesi With “The Fly” (released in 1986), David Cronenberg makes a remake of a classic in the science fiction horror genre, “The Experiment of Dr. K”, previously brought to the cinema by K. Neumann in 1958.The film partly follows the plot of the original: A brilliant world-renowned […]
14th Street // Wolfgang Tillmans
PHROOM HOME Artists Archive Projects Book Reviews Interviews Essays Moving Images Screening Room Exhibitions About Submission Newsletter WOLFGANG TILLMANS 14th Street websiteinstagram text by: Matteo Cremonesi 14th Street is a work whose simplicity is as striking as its ability to involve and move precisely because of the immediacy of the gestures underlying the […]
Crash
PHROOM HOME Artists Archive Projects Book Reviews Interviews Essays Moving Images Screening Room Exhibitions About Submission Newsletter CRASH Life and Glory of the new flesh. New desires and fetishes between Ballard and Cronenberg. text by: Matteo Cremonesi “Science and technology are multiplying all around us. To such an extent that they dictate the language […]
Enda Bowe
PHROOM HOME Artists Archive Screening Room Exhibitions About Submission Newsletter ENDA BOWE website instagram Text by: Ilaria Sponda Belfast is a divided city. I remember being there a couple of years ago in the daylight and feeling tense energies around the ‘peace lines’, walls meant to separate republicans and nationalist Catholics areas from […]
The Dead Zone
PHROOM HOME Artists Archive Screening Room Exhibitions About Submission Newsletter THE DEAD ZONE David Cronenberg text by: Matteo Cremonesi Johnny Smith, a quiet Maine teacher, suffers a car crash that leaves him in a coma for five years. Waking up after a long sleep, Jonny manifests inexplicable paranormal abilities: by touching things and […]