Fashion Documentaries
Despite being decidedly unfashionable, I enjoy watching fashion documentaries. It’s not so much the…
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The History of Film & Jing’an Villa in Shanghai
Last month I spent a week in Shanghai, just before one of the harshest…
Japanese Architecture Influence & Origin
A friend recently recommended me a visual treat of a documentary, Kochuu, that looks…
This is Shanghai
Shanghai’s skyline got to show off its better side in last year’s Skyfall, but…
Cloud Atlas Retrospective
Death. Life. Birth. Future. Present. Past. Love. Hope. Courage. An 1849 diary of an…
Chinese Megacities Timelapse
Living inside one of China’s behemoth cities is a humbling experience, such is the…
From Japan with Food
Online food documentary series The Perennial Plate spent two weeks travelling around Japan to create…
Hyundai Hyper-Matrix & Vision Hall
What do you do if you’re in charge of a multinational chaebol and have a…
Japan in a Day
I’m really looking forward to seeing Japan in a Day which opened last week…
Hong Kong in 1966
We’ve looked at footage of Hong Kong in the 1930s before but here’s some…
Samsara
If you enjoyed the visual and musical tour-de-force of Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka in the…
CITY #3721
Another visceral portrait of Hong Kong, this time by Lam Hok Tak, a student from the…