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JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
Inside the gilded cage — an interview with Diego Quemada-Diez
Diego Quemada-Diez spent six years researching The Golden Dream, his film about Guatemalan migrants. Now he tells JOE GILL how he went about making it
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
EWAN CAMERON witnesses a political farce that lacks a clear message
EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
The Spanish name for the award-winning Mexican film The Golden Dream is La Jaula De Oro, which translates as cage of gold.
“It’s what the migrants call the US because of all the gold, all the money, but when you’re in it it’s like a prison,” explains the quietly spoken 45-year-old director Diego Quemada-Diez.
The film reflects how free trade agreements with the US, combined with decades of intervention and destabilisation in central America, have caused profound inequality, poverty and violence, provoking millions to flee north.
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