Bitching about fame is commonplace in popular music, and bitching about a musician’s bitching is just as recurrent a talking point as well.
UDVFF 6: Buried in Song
Here is a list of media that has spoken to me recently, all in the format of moving
image – Youtube, Vimeo – but with varying sensory focus; many are for the music, some
silent, others focus on words.
Revolutionizing Festivals – Notes on the First Virtual Ann Arbor Film Festival
If somebody had told me that my first experience of Ann Arbor Film Festival would happen during one of the worst pandemics in recent human history, while I was locked down in the Parisian periphery, I would have seriously reconsidered this person’s mental condition.
Review: ‘My First Film’ (2018) by Zia Anger
by Savina Petkova “You’re in”, reads the email. I slide out of my chair to make myself a coffee – it’s going to be a long night. After […]
UDVFF 5: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men – Interrogations and Alternatives
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the fifth program of our Virtual Film Festival, which offers a weekly watching schedule of moving image works available for free streaming, and curated […]
“There is magic to be found in everything” – Looking at films by Nathaniel Dorsky
Nathaniel Dorsky began making films in the 1960s, and worked for many years as an editor on various commercial film projects which had nothing to do with his personal interests as an artist. For him, there is a strict separation between a film made for money and a film made personally.
“Lil Uzi Vert, to Be Exact”: On Eternal Atake/Lil Uzi Vs. The World 2
If anyone were to ask you for either a time capsule of rap music in 2016, or an embryonic example of the seedlings of what’s become one of hip-hop’s equally richest and bewildering creative eras yet, you’d simply have to present them the 2016 XXL Freshman Cypher…
Album Review: ‘Mystic Familiar’ by Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon – in his lyrics, interviews and in the goofball soapbox aspect of his live performances – is loose-tongued and lucid about the headspace which produced his fifth and newest album, Mystic Familiar (2020)
Women’s Day: Could there be holes that even the kindness of cats can’t fill? – Naoko Ogigami’s ‘Rent-a-cat’ (2012) and compassionate improbabilities
“Feeling lonely? I’ll lend you a cat.”
Women’s Day: ‘La Chambre’ (1972) by Chantal Akerman
A 16mm camera moves slowly across a sun-filled one-room apartment from the not-too-distant past. The colors are vibrant, we see a bright red velvet chair against a light-worn wooden wall. Breakfast is laid out on a circular table, half-finished and enticing.