by Vicky Huang Born into a working-class Filipino family, Lino Brocka ascended to fame by shooting studio films—often comic book adaptations—at a dizzying, Fassbinderian pace. Although it raked […]
Living/Drawing/Seeing/Reading Between The Lines: The Films of Lily Jue Sheng
Coinciding with this month’s Movie Club screening of Lily Jue Sheng’s films, we present a text on the excavations and invocations of urban space, language and cultural inheritance found in their work.
Luminent Terrains: Four Windows by Barry Gerson
by Joshua Peinado Barry Gerson, an old master of experimental and structural cinema, has been working prolifically in his late period, in a way not dissimilar to his […]
Cinema is a Death Mask: on Theo Montoya’s ‘Anhell69’
by Annie Geng The act of mourning is itself an abstracted one: To mourn is to reach, with an embodied hand, towards what no longer lives in a […]
Fred Camper’s ‘Interactions’ and Meat-Ineffable
by Liam Kenny In Stan Brakhage’s 1994 essay Geometric versus Meat-Ineffable, he establishes two “pictorial extremes of human thought process.” He first outlines what he calls “geometric,” “The […]
The Cost of Thinking: Open City Documentary Festival 2024
Arta Barzanji reports from this year’s Open City Documentary Festival.
Video Upside Down: Ernie Gehr’s Digital Era
Alex Fields on Ernie Gehr’s digital work and the insatiable, playful curiosity in the boundaries of perception, space and light which underpins all of his films.
A Few Bright Spots in the Desert: A Report on the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival
Reporting on the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Joshua Peinado writes about some of the high points of this year’s edition.
Children of the Night: On ‘Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere’ (2023)
Arta Barzanji on Sylvain George’s ‘Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere’ (2023), an intimate, roving account of young refugees living in the buffer city of Melilla.
Nelson Makengo: Mapping Darkness Through Faith
Xavier Alexandre Pillai writes about Nelson Makengo’s debut feature documentary Rising Up At Night.