CONTRIBUTORS
Meet the people that wrote for this issue…
CHRIS HAMBLING (Essay: Minari And Gentle Cinema)
Aged 25 and a resident of North London, Chris works at a brewery during the day, and bakes bread by night. Chris also applied to be a contestant on this year’s Great British Bake Off but didn’t hear back. There’s always next year.
Chris revisits Lee Isaac Chung’s 2021 feature film Minari, about a Korean family’s integration into rural Arkansas, and explores the tender approach to drama taken by Chung and contemporaries like Jim Jarmusch. He draws on his own viewing experiences to make a case for the films’ pacifying effects.
LOUIS CAMMELL (Essay: The Winner Fakes It All)
Louis, 24, moved to Glasgow a couple of years ago. But don’t ask him to draw you a map. He’s mostly been indoors watching The Simpsons, though he recently started working at a comedy club.
Louis looks at ABBA’s unexpected return, and what our collective response to the Swedish pop outfit’s tour announcement says about our appetite for fantasy in 2022. Post-pandemic, is the healing power of nostalgia more important than authenticity? Starting with the story of ABBA tribute band Bjorn Again…
KATHRYN RAVER (Essay: Portraits And Poet’s Choices)
Kathryn is a 23-year-old master’s student studying Language & Cultural Diversity at King’s College London. Outside of studying, she spends her time weightlifting, swordfighting, and reading anything & everything she can get her hands on. She’d like to write a book of her own someday (she’s working on it…slowly).
During a course on Francophone cinema in 2019, Kathryn sat down to write an essay on Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire. But having waded through its academic merits like the subversion of the male gaze, she’s seizing the opportunity to lay out what it means to her on a personal level.
ALED VERNON-REES (Essay: Welcome To The Dungeon)
Aged 23 and living in the northern metropolis of Leeds, Aled is currently studying for his masters in Religion and Theology Studies. Aled is also Norwich City F.C. supporter, though Canaries aren’t the only birds he cares about as he is a keen birdwatcher.
Aled’s essay revolves around ‘Welcome to the Dungeon’, a little-known board game with a limited fan base that he discovered in 2015. At the Green Man festival in in 2021, he was able to unlock his formative memories around playing the game when he brought it along 6 years after his first game.
