Age of Consent is a tender meditation on the ethics of art – where do we draw the line between obscenity and sensuality? – that revels in the rich colors and the salt-water breeze of the Great Barrier Reef. But it is also the portrait of an artist. We witness him reclaim his youth and find himself as he gets lost in nature. There is a girl, and her contours are imprinted in the wet sand, in the deep blue…

This piece was originally published on Simulacro Mag.

Architecture and space are core aspects of Antonioni’s œuvre: they are the frameworks through which we understand his characters’ inner worlds. The Passenger (1975), the final installment in his English-language trilogy, is a beautiful testament to the sophistication and empathy with which the director uses these elements to handle concepts of existential malaise, mortality, and identity.

This is the tale of David Locke, a renowned yet disillusioned journalist who is presently in…