Articles By: Sophia Goulandris

Mecca Diaries

Mecca Diaries
Hajj is the world’s largest annual pilgrimage that takes place in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Last year VICE Founder Suroosh Alvi went with his family and shot footage with an old Handicam. His intention was never to make a VBS doc out of it, but lo and behold here it is…shaky camerawork and all. The next...
March 23rd, 2010 | Spirituality | Read More

KISS ME / KILL ME

KISS ME / KILL ME
If our understanding of the mechanisms of the world could fit in a library, then ideally ‘Love’ would be a single fat volume on a plinth of its own. Where it would actually be found is printed on a sticker on an interminable shelf in the Reference section. Manuals would be archived chronologically,...
January 28th, 2010 | Arts | Read More