Inspired by memories of her grandmother’s quilting practice, the Utah-based filmmaker Carly Jakins created the acclaimed short documentary American Seams to explore how the form intersects with themes of home, creativity and gender in the American West. Working alongside her husband, the filmmaker…

‘Come on now – dig around in that noggin and save everything that’s worth saving.’ Facing the daunting realities of a multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis, Case Jernigan, a US artist based in Italy, turned to art to make sense of his new reality, including the mobility and cognitive difficulties to…

In A Way of Being, the Israel-based director Kobi Vogman fashions a rich stop-motion tale from wood and wool. The wordless short follows the journey of a human-like figure as it journeys away from a chair, which is seemingly a place of great comfort, and into a misty void. Vogman and his team…

videoDemography and migration In California’s farmlands, immigrant workers share their stories of toil and hope 17 minutes videoHome Life moves slowly in a Romanian mountain village, shaped by care and the seasons 13 minutes videoGender A catchy tune explains the world’s ‘isms’ – according to your…

Most of us know people who struggle to be happy despite having it all. I remember visiting my friend Steve after he struck it rich, and being blown away by his cushy existence. As I wandered through his extraordinary home, I told him that his life was over the top. Steve admitted that it seemed that…

I first encountered Martha C Nussbaum in 1987. She was a guest on Bryan Magee’s BBC television series The Great Philosophers. In each programme, Magee would interview a leading contemporary philosopher about the ideas of a great philosopher of the past; Nussbaum was brought in to discuss Aristotle.…

How does it feel to be ‘highly sensitive’? If I’d heard the question without all I know now, I would have said I wouldn’t know because I wasn’t. But after the term was applied to me in 1991 by a therapist I was sent to because I had ‘overreacted’ to a medical procedure, I began to seriously study…