This week, we’re doing something a little different.
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.
UDVFF 4: In Proximity
You and I have (hopefully) spent the past few weeks at a home, in isolation, away from noise and crowds. In this isolation, one inevitably bumps into oneself.
“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.
Women’s Day: The War is Never Over – Transcendental Darklands of Lydia Lunch and Louise Bourque
At the recent French premiere of the documentary film The War is Never Over (2019, dir. Beth B), iconic No wave queen Lydia Lunch – whose tumultuous life and career are the subject of the film – described her constant struggle with childhood trauma as the creative force behind her long-lasting career as an artist, which now stretches over four decades.
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.
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 […]