Profiles

Fiction in response to the work of David Thorpe

Lightshows of the Beat era

Getting under the skin of the furry world

The German slide-show phenomenon

The difficult questions raised by Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful, a comedy set in the Holocaust

Four Danish directors and their Dogma 95 manifesto

The industry’s appropriations of minimalist aesthetics offer a vision of social isolation

Film's tortured relationship with the videogame

Rejecting the media's moralising response to The Truman Show

Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine reveals the central role of homosexuality in British Pop from the ’50s through to the ’80s

IMAX might be bigger, but it's definitely not better

Charting the unhappy lot of the modern office worker

Recent laws are forcing multinational corporations to take the environment seriously

Punk-era record sleeves viciously parodied the commercialisation of the record industry, but the subtler approach is far more unsettling

Nanotechnology can now create the 'perfect' sculptural material

Fiction in response to the work of Tacita Dean

Concept cars

Sony's programmable PlayStation

Someone was paying attention when it was noted that video games have a revenue potential exceeding that of feature films...

Utopian Design