Tag: China

• Almost Heaven

  

  Lucy Coleman Talbot interviews director Carol Salter about her new film. A beautifully crafted exploration of life death and love, described as a “vibrant, human story” by The Hollywood Reporter, it follows 17 year old Ying Ling, who is training to become a mortician in one of China’s largest funeral homes.

  Death and the Maiden

  21/09/2017

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Almost Heaven, Carol Salter, China, Culture, Experiences, Film, Independant Film, Interview, Picturehouse Central, Real Life

• Tears Become Ideas

  In some places, the ability to sing or recite ritual laments became part of a feminine portfolio of skills, along with cooking, spinning, mending and cleaning. Here, author Sarah Murray shares an adaptation from her wonderful book Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre, How We Dignify the Dead to give us insight…

  Death and the Maiden

  27/04/2015

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Art, Artist, Beauty, Ceremonies, China, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Emotion, Experiences, Expression, Gender Roles, Greece, Grief, History, Ireland, Laments, Mourning, Music, Ritual, Russia, Women, Writer