A multi-disciplinary artist and activist whose work tackles themes like immigration, cultural and national identity, and film history, Brooklyn-based Mariam Ghani also explores the relationship between the artist and the archive.
A young man’s crisis of meaning, captured in a moving eleven-minute film put together on shoestring budget by art students. SCOPE talks with the screenwriter and lead actor of the award-winning Girah.
In this age of stunningly-complex digital animations, in which computer technology seemingly removes all limits for artists, it is refreshing and inspiring to see how the physical constraints of pottery, drawing, and paper cut-outs can be transformed into a new kind of magic.
Moscow-born-New York-based photographer and international model Ira Chernova talks with SCOPE about being on both sides of the camera, her attraction to fairy tales, and the importance of shooting in the moment. (Photo: Alina Valitova)
Today’s children spend less time in nature than any generation before them. Jon Alexander, brand strategist at the UK’s National Trust, and filmmaker David Bond tell SCOPE about the implications for children’s well-being, and about their ambitious (and irreverent) Project Wild Thing, a documentary that looks at what it would take to get boys and girls back outside.
