Dan Ziegler writes on San Francisco’s Light Field Film Festival 2025.
Amir Naderi: Fragmented Modernities
Alonso Aguilar on the striking abrasions and velocities of Amir Naderi’s international modernist cinema.
Structures and Meaning: The Films of Karl Kels
Antoni Orlof speaks with Karl Kels about how approaching filmmaking with an openness to chance and precision, and finding new paths while defining limits, has shaped his unique body of work.
Revolutionary Desires: Films of The Afro-Asian Film Festival and the ‘Bandung Spirit’ at IFFR 2025
Cici Peng on the revolutionary dynamics of several films featured at the ‘third worldist’ Afro-Asian Film Festival and screened at IFFR for the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference.
Reading Through Loss: Archival Film Practices at IFFR 2025
Emily Jisoo Bowles on 3 films that screened at this year’s IFFR, which use found footage to interrogate historical, political and representational fissures.
Where Old Ships Go to Die: Jason Byrne on the Making of ‘Scrap Vessel’
Stephen Jeffrey Cappel speaks with Jason Byrne on the years long voyage to make Scrap Vessel (2009).
Joseph Bernard (1941–2025)
Dean Kavanagh on his friend and fellow filmmaker, the late Joseph Bernard.
The Expanding Universe: On Standish Lawder’s ‘Raindance’ (1972)
Ruairí McCann on ‘Raindance’, Standish Lawder’s optically printed miracle, a vast universe of light and motion scrambled and remade anew.
Peasants of the Cinema: António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro
Liam Kenny on Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis’s revolutionary cinema of Tràs-os-Montes, its lived-in and dreamlike poetics and their ethos of close communal collaboration.
The 24-Hour Working Girl
Ayanna Dozier writes on ‘Anora’ and its reductive vision of sex work as a client’s fantasy.