By Gregory Crofton Profit shouldn’t be priority when caring for older people, but that’s a reality and it’s producing “systemic negligence” throughout the nursing home industry. Running a long-term care facility, or nursing home, as a for-profit corporate-owned business can…
‘ZEF: The Story of Die Antwoord’ is DEF
By Gregory Crofton Jon Day, best known for his music video work, spent five years making a documentary on Die Antwoord, the viciously good South African cheetahs of art rap. Roger Ballen, a photographer whose had a massive influence rap…
Murder Remembered
This feature-length docudrama brings us back to 1950 in a smalltown Ontario bank, the scene of an armed hold-up by Herbert McAuliffe. By nightfall, two men are dead. The robber flees, and for three days the community of Norfolk County…
Still Photos Examine Breakdown of Ukrainian Life in ‘SIGNS OF WAR’
By Gregory Crofton Pierre Crom is a French photographer who seems to like being in control of things. He sips his coffee carefully and speaks deliberately when interviewed about his work. But war photography, a field he chose once he…
Living in a Italian Commune
In the rolling hills of central Italy sits Honeydew, an eco-community created as a direct response to the isolation of the Covid pandemic, enabled by modern technology and aiming to address the profound changes the climate crisis looks set to…
Why Do Parts of Nashville’s Heart Keep Getting Torn Out?
By Gregory Crofton You know how the price of concert tickets keep going up? There’s a reason for that and it’s called Big Music, you know like Big Oil. These companies are so large, and have gobbled up so many…