Tag: Violent

  • Ali Cherri on How Art Can Keep Us Empathetic In a Dark and Violent World

    In Ali Cherri’s recent films, war maps itself onto the spine of those afflicted. The watchman, the titular figure of a 2024 short, stands rigid for unbroken hours, lost in a lineage of men stationed along the border of the internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.Cherri’s follow-up film The Sentinel (2025)—the second in an read more

    Ali Cherri on How Art Can Keep Us Empathetic In a Dark and Violent World