But Murnau’s vampire, Count Orlok (Max Schreck), cemented the tropes inherent in vampire allegory, including the undead being ...

For centuries, women have graced the coins of Europe and beyond, not as queens or empresses, but as personifications of nations. These allegories—figures such as Britannia, Helvetia, and Marianne—are ...

Plato’s allegory of the cave is one of the greatest stories of philosophy. It allows us to understand how the Greek philosopher perceived the world in ancient times. The tale involves a metaphorical ...

Zach Cregger’s Weapons movie is a lot of things. It’s a fascinating look at some colorful characters who make up a little town. It’s really scary and intense. And then, suddenly, it’s also really ...

Source: Francesco Bini/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The most famous of all allegories is the Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato compares unphilosophical people to prisoners who, having spent their ...

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The development of nuclear technology has left deep marks not only in the fields of science and the military but also in cultural and artistic spheres. Since the mid-20th century, the fear and ...

In this exclusive interview, director Alice Rohrwacher and JR talk about their short film An Urban Allegory and collaborating with Leos Carax. Italian director Alice Rohrwacher (La Chimera, Happy as ...

With light inevitably comes darkness, a dualism Barcelona-based artist Connor Addison (previously) finds endlessly intriguing. “We so often forget to embrace the shadow as it’s presumed unloveable or ...

The Match Factory has acquired international sales rights for “An Urban Allegory,” a short film by Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher and French artist and director JR, ahead of its world premiere at ...

The Match Factory has boarded international sales on An Urban Allegory, the new short film by Alice Rohrwacher and JR, ahead of its world premiere at Venice Film Festival, Out of Competition. The work ...