Rebellion – Mohammedmccarthy

Military of Shadows: Resistance, Riot, and Loss of life

MohammedmccarthyMarch 11, 2025035 mins

It occurred to me that it’s time to share this essay of mine from Vibrant Lights Movie Journal, initially printed in 2006. The rationale for its publication then was the rerelease for the primary time in 37 years, since its first screening in France in 1969, of Jean-Pierre Melville’s movie of the WW II French…

Cuba’s Underground: Range, Artwork, and Riot

MohammedmccarthyMarch 3, 2025March 3, 2025011 mins

Felix Gonzales Martinez & Katherine Carmona. Havana, Cuba . Fall 2021 Shibari, tattoos, and drag queens aren’t the primary issues to come back to thoughts when one thinks of Cuba. Nonetheless, photographer Jean-François Bouchard reveals us that there’s an underground in Cuba that’s various, artistic, and extremely aesthetic. Bouchard has been photographing hidden Cuba since…