Xavier Alexandre Pillai writes about Nelson Makengo’s debut feature documentary Rising Up At Night.
Visualising the Palestinian Struggle: Khadijeh Habashneh and the Palestine Film Unit
Leena Habiballa on filmmaker and scholar Khadijeh Habashneh, the Palestine Film Unit and their mission of revolutionary struggle through cinema.
Apparitions Strange and Familiar: The Film and Video Works of Nour Ouayda
Coinciding with this month’s Movie Club screening of Nour Ouayda’s THE SECRET GARDEN (2023), we present a text on Ouayda’s oeuvre.
Loneliness and Longing: When the Apocalypse is Over
Winnie Wang writes about “When the Apocalypse is Over” — a series of contemporary films from the Philippines opening this February at BAM.
The Scale of Being: Linnea Nugent’s Haptic, Semi-Handmade Images
An introduction to the work of New York filmmaker Linnea Nugent, streaming Dec 8-22 in the Movie Club.
Mambar Pierrette: All of Cameroon’s Cares on Her Shoulders
Abiba Coulibaly writes about Rosine Mbakam’s first narrative feature film, MAMBAR PIERRETTE.
Spirits Rebel: On Julius-Amédée Laou’s Cinema of Revenants
Ruairí McCann on the films of Julius-Amédée Laou.
Celluloid Now, More Than Ever
Olivia Hunter Willke surveys this year’s CELLULOID NOW, an all-analog “community-centered and artist-forward” film series in Chicago.
Looking for Clues: Mary Helena Clark’s First Films
Sam Warren Miell on Mary Helena Clark’s early work and the challenges of her disarmingly metonymic cinema.
Oil and Water: Three Films by Nikos Nikolaidis
by Dylan Adamson At about the half hour mark of Nikos Nikolaidis’ Morning Patrol (1987), the unnamed lead character wanders into an empty movie theater, drawn by the […]