Aristi Cultural Initiative 09/08/2024 Aristi Cultural Initiative 09/08/2024

THE PENTHOUSE

The spiral effect in this short-short from The New Yorker is excellent; a textbook example of a successful one-page* fiction.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 04/06/2024 Aristi Cultural Initiative 04/06/2024

THE LAST CARAVAGGIO

Well known narratives not as an idealised version, but as pointed articulations of looking at sedition, subversion, power, influence, control or authority.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 22/03/2024 Aristi Cultural Initiative 22/03/2024

THE ARTIST’S STRUGGLE FOR INTEGRITY

On the condition of being an artist and the reasons why an artist is compelled to live, and cannot settle.

Aurélie Coulibaly 11/02/2024 Aurélie Coulibaly 11/02/2024

MOTHERHOOD

Darker aspects of motherhood are real, and natural transgressions are not enough spoken about in this way.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 16/12/2023 Aristi Cultural Initiative 16/12/2023

HOSPITAL

Each mock-up here exists as its own re-enactment; very much in the realm of metaphor.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 15/12/2023 Aristi Cultural Initiative 15/12/2023

LEONORA CARRINGTON AT LAMB GALLERY

Handed down to timelessness are five most enchanting hats by Leonora Carrington, meticulously sketched in small brushstroke, with gouache on paper.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 10/12/2023 Aristi Cultural Initiative 10/12/2023

JUST US

Rankine wraps around subject-matter like charm work.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 05/12/2023 Aristi Cultural Initiative 05/12/2023

LA PASSION DE DODIN BOUFFANT

The assumed absence of music makes room for spectacular sound and sight, at every turn of a spoon, and turns many a sequence into its own stand-alone miniature climax.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 02/12/2023 Aristi Cultural Initiative 02/12/2023

THE BOY AND THE HERON

Curiosity furies at the core of the epic hand-drawn 2D feature by Hayao Miyasaki.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 30/09/2023 Aristi Cultural Initiative 30/09/2023

QUEER PHENOMENOLOGY

A very potent testament to our own agency in the myriad individual lived experience we incarnate in the world.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 21/07/2023 Aristi Cultural Initiative 21/07/2023

AUTOPORTRAIT AU ROITELET

Emily Dickinson turns her fears into splendour and is not afraid reflecting that she does not understand everything.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 15/07/2023 Aristi Cultural Initiative 15/07/2023

THE KING

A magnetic hero’s journey, addressing good governance, mentorship, selfhood, and male hegemony.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 08/07/2023 Aristi Cultural Initiative 08/07/2023

YOURSELF IN THE WORLD

Writing that feels akin to that of a genius art critic, as imperceptible nuances come into sharp focus and superbly astute, reliable inferences.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 21/05/2023 Aristi Cultural Initiative 21/05/2023

L’USAGE DU VIDE

With poetic sensitivity and impressive sagacity Romain Graziani debunks the enigma of hapless wilfulness, to beget an aesthetic to live by.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 20/05/2023 Aristi Cultural Initiative 20/05/2023

JE VERRAI TOUJOURS VOS VISAGES

A film about repair and the importance of relationship, where direct encounters bring about potentials for mending, and where every attempt is a leap.

Aristi Cultural Initiative 17/05/2023 Aristi Cultural Initiative 17/05/2023

QUEEN CHARLOTTE

Shonda Rhimes’ confident writing explores unerasing erasure in a world where anyone aware of the rules of play, stands a chance.