The editors and several contributors to Ultra Dogme pick out 3 pieces of music that got them through 2025.
Blasphemy and Freedom: João César Monteiro’s Post-Revolutionary Cinema
Justine Smith dives into the defiant, bacchanalian and melancholy cinema of João César Monteiro.
Images of Time: An Interview with Shinya Isobe
Alex Fields speaks with Shinya Isobe about the gradual development of his experimental approach, time and cinema, the dynamic presence of sound in his work, and more.
The Devil’s Rendering: On Jiří Trnka’s Antifascist Visuals
Tyler Thier writes on Jiří Trnka’s antifascist, animated bricolages, placing their subversive tactility in opposition to frictionless and fascist AI imagery.
Redrawing the Map: Alpe-Adria Underground! (2024) and the Unfolding Histories of Slovenian Experimental Cinema
Mariya Nikiforova writes about Alpe-Adria Underground! (2024), an ambitious chronicle of Slovenia experimental cinema. Nikiforova’s essay digs into the challenges of film historiography while giving a detailed overview of this rich and overlooked heritage.
Illusional Civilization: Bahram Beyzaei’s Journey
Faranak Nateghi on the context and poetics of Journey (Safar, 1972), Bahram Beyzaei’s metaphorical portrait of Tehran as a modern city of dazzling surfaces and transparent class inequality and alienation.
Pleasure Principles: Kalil Haddad on “He Never Dies”
Alexander Mooney speaks with Kalil Haddad about the radical queer form and convictions of his 4 film cycle, He Never Dies.
“I Listen to the Worn-Out Rain”—the Ineffable Vibrations of Loren Connors
Maximilien Luc Proctor gives an overview of the twists, turns and poetics of poet, magician, sage Loren Connors.
Dossier: Loren Connors
A new dossier of texts about the avant-garde blues of Loren Connors.
“The Act of Creation is Driven by Memory”—An Interview with Filmmaker Vincent Guilbert
Ruairí McCann and Maximilien Luc Proctor speak with Vincent Guilbert about Gestures, his intimate, tactile and allusive portrait of Loren Connors.