A fascinating and rich life of travel, music and love. From Ghanaian dance floors to global adventures, Richard Walker’s memoir, 'Highlife, & my other lives' is a celebration of love, music and resilience. Blending personal history with cultural exploration, it offers readers a poignant and adventurous journey through a remarkable life.
We formed a group to travel in Chengdu and research the highly acclaimed and financial juggernaut that is Nezha 2. Meeting with the animation companies and interviewing professors on the production and impact that this film has had in China, followed by pandas, art exhibitions and a whole lot of hotpot!
As a flagship event initiated and organized by scholars from the Yenching Academy of Peking University, the Yenching Global Symposium (YGS) is one of the most competitive and influential conferences for diving into China-related topics in the world. Given the theme of fortitude, here we see what the delegates get up to after a long day of stimulating and fruitful discussions: playing games, enjoying the local culture, and making friends at the beach in the wonderful tropical island of Hainan.
Seven photographers (Abel Carmenate, Xavier Carvajal, Maité Fernández, Elio Miniello, Enrique Smith, Gonzalo Vidal and Jorge Villa) have come together to put on an exhibition and publish a book, capturing on film the Cuban and international musicians performing at Havana’s Jazz Plaza festival over the years.
In a quiet seaside town, the lives of a mischievous drifter, the heir to a fishing empire, and elderly enigmatic staple of the town’s community intersect in a game which will change the three of their lives forever.
As part of the film course I'm in with NYFA, I had to make a short film inspired by Hitchcock's Psycho. Considering I had recently bought myself a drone, I figured this was the perfect opportunity to use it. This film is made almost entirely using that drone.
Impressionistic reflections on a man's life in the final moments before complete oblivion. Flashes of his love appear before him, but his deteriorating mind burns the final fragments, plunging him into golden dreams as his life washes away forever.
This book combines the poetry of Anna Lidia Vega Serova with the photography of Gonzalo Vidal. Presented in bilingual (Spanish original and English translation) format, in which text and image are brought together in poetic conversation. The poems deal with love and loss, hybrid identity, and the planting of our dreams in the midst of urban decay.
A film about the elements – hurricanes and rain, the sea and the earth. About a fishing port on the north coast of Cuba which has seen better days: Caibarién, where Hurricane Irma – one of the most powerful ever to sweep the Caribbean – made landfall on 9th September 2017.
About the effects of climate across the centuries in a Caribbean island sucked into global markets for its commodity crops – tobacco, coffee and above all, sugar. How sugar changed the landscape, through deforestation and soil exhaustion.
About the collapse of sugar and the encroachment of a new commodity market – tourism.
About the growing threat from climate change, and the move towards reforestation, ecotourism and sustainable farming.