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
by Alonso Aguilar ‘Baroque’ as an adjective tends to be associated with its Eurocentric styling, that of extravagant, ornate, and occasionally convoluted aesthetics; the quintessential pictorial and aural […]
Howls of Rage: Tracing Martial Law Politics in Lino Brocka’s Cinema
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 […]
Light & Matter: An Interview with Gakuryu Ishii
by Nel Dahl In Gakuryu Ishii’s mercurial sci-fi feature film August in the Water (1995), an accomplished young female diver has an accident during a tournament amidst eerily […]
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 […]
Now Serving: Experimental Shorts by Trans Filmmakers
We are proud to present 14 short films by trans filmmakers, streaming worldwide for free, from June 14 through June 28, 2024.
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 […]