dương (ari) nguyễn speaks with Truong Minh Quy about his film, Viet & Nam (2024), a tender romance between two young miners and an exigesis of Vietnam’s past and present.
I Saw a Dry Leaf in a Field of Flowers: Locarno 78 and the Texture of Cinema
Arta Barzanji reports from this year’s Locarno Film Festival on the experimentation of Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf and Radu Jude’s Dracula.
Long Play: Sora Hokimoto on ‘BAUS’ and Shinji Aoyama’s Legacy
Blake Simons speaks with director Sora Hokimoto on his film and Shinji Aoyama’s final project, BAUS: The Long Voyage Continues (2025), the tale of an independent Tokyo cinema.
Faces in Death: Michael Roemer’s ‘Dying’
Devin Leong on the poetics of Michael Roemer’s 1976 documentary, Dying.
The Dawn Will Break: Two Films for Gaza
Our new free streaming program, a donation initiative for the people of Gaza.
Ciro Durán’s ‘La Paga’ Restored: A Conversation with Vladimir Durán
Finn Jubak speaks with Vladimir Durán about the restoration of La Paga (1962), his late father Ciro Durán’s first film and a landmark in Colombian and Venezuelan cinema history.
Subtle Spacecrafts & Shifting Climates
Emma Fuchs on the ‘subtle science fiction’ approach to depicting the vicissitudes of climate change and modernity in Still Life, Lazzaro Felice and Bacurau.
An Unsettled Materialism: The Super 8 Films of Jean-Claude Rousseau
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.