Month: June 2020

Originally posted on Under 5 minute & Smartphone festival:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DWh1VlYWYpw?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent The fear (and fascination) with cults is nothing new. The term comes from the Latin word cultus, which means to worship a deity, but in the last few centuries its colloquial definition has transformed. In a 1981 edition of the Harvard Mental Health Letter, psychiatrist Robert…

Originally posted on Under 5 minute & Smartphone festival:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/crtX6GeyJAQ?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Peter Medak is an 82-year old director who went through the harrowing experience of working with Peter Sellers in a comedy titled “Ghost in the Noonday Sun” in 1974. Like Ishmael quoting Job in the final page of “Moby Dick”, his latest film about this fiasco…