Over the course of three features, several shorts and an amalgamation of fiction and non-fiction, Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz has deepened her expression of how family wields a powerful and complex influence over an individual’s sense of self.
Women’s Day: Perfect, Imperfect Endings – On Barbara Loden’s ‘Wanda’ (1970)
by Patrick Preziosi Art can be inherently political, but demanding didactic manifestations of intent and closed-circuit endpoints is anything but–– the most piercingly conscious works eschew such politeness […]
Best of the Decade: Film
We asked our contributing writers (as well as a couple of future contributors) to offer up lists of films from the last decade which impacted them in a significant way. While we are presenting these as our ‘best of’ lists, the idea was primarily to show several lists covering a variety of moving image works from the multiplex to the avant-garde, some well-loved, others perhaps under-seen.
7 Great Experimental Short Films on Vimeo
by +MLP+ We’re all looking for something great to watch. Moving images which will actually move and challenge us: to be better viewers and better people. In the […]
Review: L. COHEN (2018) by James Benning
I can still see the composition of L. Cohen when I close my eyes: a nondescript green field extends diagonally towards a snow-brimmed mountain.
KVIFF 2019: Stargazing – On Jonás Trueba’s ‘The August Virgin’
Jonás Trueba’s ‘The August Virgin’ won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 54th edition of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Dutch critic Hugo Emmerzael, who was part of the jury that bestowed the award, offers his thoughts on this invigorating and luminating slice-of-life set in Madrid.
“Books on the Internet” – An Interview with Mariano Llinás
“Well, to tell you the truth, I have never started a project or a picture from a story. It has never been the way I think of the pictures. I’ve always had a subject, or more like an image, or a procedure, but never a story, the story is always the last thing that comes [to me].”
An Interview with Ivan Marković
Ivan Marković on his work as cinematographer (‘I Was at Home, But…’) and co-director (‘From Tomorrow On, I Will’) of his two most recent films.
An Interview with Frank Beauvais
by Tijana Perovic, edited by Maximilien Luc Proctor Berlinale 2019 would have been a huge success for me as a viewer, had it only screened Ne croyez surtout […]
“Context is still important.” An Interview with Bill Morrison
written by Maximilien Luc Proctor, edited by Martin Bremer Wilting, bending, fraying, the edges of the frame dance. Brimming with signs of decay and the promise of a […]