IT felt like waking to a world where one of those chiselled chalk faces had been airbrushed from Mount Rushmore's backcloth. The hurling topography is forever altered by the exit of the red helmet ...

ELYSIUM (15, 109 mins) *** Starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Wagner Moura, Diego Luna, Faran Tahir, William Fichtner. Director: Neill Blomkamp. According to a recent report by the ...

The event was meant to rally fashion designers to use materials that are not harmful to the environment.Eco-conscious fashion brands are now creating outfits from polythene, tyres, backcloth and ...

With backcloth, for instance, she soaks it for a period of time before beating it. She will then have to stitch the papers together and they tear. She ensures it’s waterproofed.

"Trompe-l'oeil backcloth to represent unbroken plain and sky receding to meet in far distance," Samuel Beckett's stage directions say. Here no backcloth to represent but the very thing.