Eric Coombs Esmail

Following the documentary impulse to the limits of observation.
2024 / 1987 
        

Critical   Media

Documentary & Philosophy









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Critical   Media

Documentary & Pedagogy




Il fuente del toro


            Washington Irving’s Tales of the Alhambra and Shakespeare’s Othello descant the 2008-2014 Spanish Financial Crisis, exemplified by the Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad – also known as “el Gordo” – the extravagant Spanish Christmas Lottery. Cultural divisions, regional differences, and the mystical pathways that traverse and demarcate these Iberian landscapes (both metaphorically and physically) construct a politically spiritual perception of Spain that is at once unaffected and deeply hypocritical.

Short documentary   2014