Joshua Peinado on Michael Sicinski’s inspired curation of new experimental film at this year’s Houston Cinema Arts Festival.
Language as an Act of Marvel: A Personal Journey Through Translating Ruiz’s Diaries
Jaime Grijalba on The Ruiz Diaries substack, his daily project of translating the complete diaries of Raúl Ruiz into English.
A Night at the Museum
Abiba Coulibaly on Mati Diop’s ‘Dahomey’ and its vision of the museum as a space of colonial consumption & anti-colonial assertion.
Andrew Noren’s Lights and Shadows
Andrew Reichel on the elusive, mercurial & intimate cinema of Andrew Noren.
Letters as Letters, Letters as Numbers, Letters as Stories: On Audrey Lam’s ‘Us and the Night’ (2024)
Librarian-filmmakers James Devine & Blanca García on Audrey Lam’s ‘Us and the Night’ (2024) and its vision of the library as a small yet sweeping cosmology of facts, figments, connections and intimacy.
Beyond Death and Separate(d) from Life: On ‘The Third World from the Sun’
Coinciding with this month’s Movie Club screening of Analú Laferal and Tiagx Vélez’s ‘The Third World After the Sun’, we present an essay on the the film.
AInfection: Generative Artificial Intelligence Infiltrates the Avant-Garde
Olivia Hunter Willke scrutinizes the unlabeled inclusion of generative AI pieces in this year’s Onion City and Ann Arbor experimental film festivals.
Paul Leduc’s Baroque Militancy
Alonso Aguilar on the subversive baroque cinema of Paul Leduc.
Howls of Rage: Tracing Martial Law Politics in Lino Brocka’s Cinema
Vicky Huang on the topographies of class, control and rage in Lino Brocka’s Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) and Insiang (1976).
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.