Avalyn Wu draws on Cezanne to discuss Jean-Claude Rousseau’s penetrating and vivid materialist filmmaking.
“Don’t Fence Me In”: A Conversation with Larry Gottheim and Forrest Sprague
Devin Leong speaks with Larry Gottheim and Forrest Sprague about their new film A Private Room, the collaborative process and Gottheim’s work.
Do These Images Give Voice?: Machete Gillette…Mama (1989)
Ruairí McCann on Larry Gottheim’s Machete Gilette…Mama, a travelogue marked by ghosts and perceptual vicissitudes.
Archival Surprises: On the Re-Emergence of ‘Nujum an-Nahar’ in Film Historiography
Najrin Islam on Ossama Mohammed’s Syrian satire, Nujum an-Nahar (Stars in Broad Daylight, 1988) and the politics of its new restoration.
Intervals of Light & Darkness: A Collection of New & Selected Texts on the Cinema of Larry Gottheim
Ultra Dogme presents a free digital collection of new and selected texts on the cinema of Larry Gottheim.
Kaleidoscopes of Solidarity: Light Field 2025
Dan Ziegler writes on San Francisco’s Light Field Film Festival 2025.
Amir Naderi: Fragmented Modernities
Alonso Aguilar on the striking abrasions and velocities of Amir Naderi’s international modernist cinema.
Structures and Meaning: The Films of Karl Kels
Antoni Orlof speaks with Karl Kels about how approaching filmmaking with an openness to chance and precision, and finding new paths while defining limits, has shaped his unique body of work.
Revolutionary Desires: Films of The Afro-Asian Film Festival and the ‘Bandung Spirit’ at IFFR 2025
Cici Peng on the revolutionary dynamics of several films featured at the ‘third worldist’ Afro-Asian Film Festival and screened at IFFR for the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference.
Reading Through Loss: Archival Film Practices at IFFR 2025
Emily Jisoo Bowles on 3 films that screened at this year’s IFFR, which use found footage to interrogate historical, political and representational fissures.