•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 01, 2023
The documentary photographer Ciril Jazbec has embraced the value of nature to talk about the rising adversity around climate change in his photographic art practice.
by Jerry Elengical Mar 31, 2023
Speaking to STIR, the Curator of Hong Kong Visual Culture at M+ delves into how the museum’s inaugural exhibition chronicles the city’s development across visual and spatial mediums.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 20, 2023
Winner of the Best Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, EEAAO's production designer Jason Kisvarday speaks with STIR on the magic and mundanity of the film.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 13, 2023
The Oscar-nominated production designers deliberate on exploring new Pandoran geographies, world building dynamics, and the titular way of water in 2022's biggest film.
by Shinjini Majumder Feb 13, 2023
In Cinema Speculation, renowned screenwriter Quentin Tarantino discusses American films of the 70s, suffused with footnotes, personal recollections, opinions, and criticisms.
by Jincy Iype Dec 27, 2022
Best of 2022: From Oscar-nominated production designers to trend forecasters, STIR recalls compelling conversations centred on the disciplines of architecture and design.
by Aastha D. Dec 02, 2022
Green Modernism: The New View of Plants, a pilot project at the Museum Ludwig in Germany, looks at the anthropogenic history of plants.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Aug 05, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to Paris-based clown Slava Polunin about making fantasies, bringing comedy and metaphysics together, and a notion of living life as a work of art.
by Anmol Ahuja Jun 08, 2022
An homage from Salone del Mobile to Milan, La Scatola Magica or The Magic Box stands as a camera obscura at Palazzo Reale, ensconcing a sensorial experience narrating the fair's manifesto.
by Rosalyn D`Mello Apr 25, 2022
Indian scriptwriter Aastha Tiku’s film, Sherni, shares ideological resonances with a work-in-progress by a South Tyrolean museologist and researcher duo.
by Anmol Ahuja Apr 07, 2022
True to the Guillermo del Toro signature, the Oscar-nominated production designer talks about converting surreal dreams to nightmares in the eponymous classic tale of desire.
by STIRworld Mar 30, 2022
The 3D visual artist Khyati Trehan from New Delhi was one of the eight designers invited by The Academy to design the Oscar statuette imspired by their love for movies.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 29, 2022
From desert worlds to rustic barns to carnival funhouses and abstract edifices, STIR brings you enticing conversations with four of this year’s Oscar nominated production designers.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 26, 2022
The Oscar nominated production designer walks STIR through the monochromatic, square framed no-place in Joel Coen’s adaptation of the profound Shakespearean tragedy.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 21, 2022
In conversation with STIR, the Oscar nominated production designer delves into the Netflix film’s production design and recreating a 1925 Montana ranch in rural New Zealand.
by Devanshi Shah Feb 23, 2022
In a conversation with director Pan Nalin and producer Dheer Momaya, STIR explores the story behind the making of Last Film Show.
by Anmol Ahuja Jan 22, 2022
While the Italian artist-designer-filmmaker-animator barely begins to scratch the surface of his repertoire, Virgilio Villoresi coalesces his dreamy inspirations in a conversation with STIR.
by Anmol Ahuja Dec 29, 2021
From period dramas to fantasies to sci-fi epics, STIR rounds up the best of architecture and design in this year’s mainstream cinema offerings.
by Anmol Ahuja Nov 12, 2021
The Importance of Being an Architect at the Milan Design Film Festival investigates the responsibility of architects in building 'tomorrow' through ACPV’s dexterous body of work.
by Anmol Ahuja Oct 27, 2021
Designed as a “love letter to journalism”, the world of Wes Anderson’s latest film is an enunciation of the director’s penchant for all things symmetric, pastel, and picture-perfect.
by Jerry Elengical Aug 12, 2021
The 1000-seater cinema hall in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, employs postmodern references to local architectural landmarks in a playful and instantly memorable design scheme.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 16, 2021
Dutch artist Germaine Kruip, with her minimalistic sculptures at exhibition Screenplay at Axel Vervoordt Gallery, invites the viewers to reaffirm their presence in the built environment.
by Rosalyn D`Mello May 03, 2021
How do artists cope with strangulating environments that insidiously erase their right to express their subjectivities?
by Dilpreet Bhullar Feb 16, 2021
The Pakistan-based filmmaker’s slow-cinema tells a compelling story on human life laced with the question of survival in the face of single-minded acts of growth and progress.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jul 31, 2020
The lockdown due to the ongoing pandemic offered us ample time to put in good use — indulge in the possibilities of the spiral-cased representations of art and cinema.
by Rahul Kumar Jul 24, 2020
On the 95th birth anniversary of Tyeb Mehta, STIR presents an exclusive interview with Sakina Mehta, wife of the late artist, who takes us down the memory lane.
by Jones John Jun 25, 2020
After more than three decades of making art out of derelict film spools, the acclaimed underground filmmaker made his peace with eternity on June 13, 2020.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 18, 2020
The artistic tool of metaphors and experiment with mediums with which the multi-media artist Ranbir Kaleka carved his artistic journey has turned human realities inside out
by Utkarsh Jun 11, 2020
STIR reviews three films from award-winning filmmaker Anand Patwardhan's expansive filmography, to understand the shifting landscape of Indian politics.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Mar 16, 2020
Vladimir Belogolovsky reviews the show at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, devoted entirely to Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece - the futurist sci-fi film Space Odyssey.
by Sukanya Garg Jul 11, 2019
Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul of Thailand received a sum of £40,000 at a ceremony held at the National Museum Cardiff.
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