“Whether through imperfection, glitches, or plurality, club culture did not die in 2020. No hierarchy intended, with this list I want to highlight some of the most powerful live/online performances.” Continue reading On Physicality and Proximity or How “Live/Online” Shows Set the Screen for a New Club Culture
Rounding up a well-overdue collection of memories from this year’s IFFR, Berlinale, and online festivals. Continue reading Diary: Fondly Remembering Festivals
As the title suggests, this list collects our contributors’ 3 songs that got them through this hell-year. Continue reading 3 Songs that Got Us Through the Year
Hello and welcome to the first-ever crossover episode between Ultra Dogme and Cinema Year Zero. Continue reading Compilation: Dogme Year Zero
The last movie I saw screened theatrically was Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt, on a 35mm print, March 9th, at New York City’s Film Forum. Continue reading Dogme Year Zero: The Blue Hour
by Ruairí McCann Knowing no one understands these songs,I try to sing them clearer.Even though no one has ever asked:”What does Mount Eerie mean?”I have tried to repeatedly explainIn complicated songs.But tonight, we will find out.I know no one.And no one knows me. Those are the opening lyrics of “No Flashlight”: Songs of the Fulfilled Night (2005). The first album Phil Elverum released as ‘Mount … Continue reading Dogme Year Zero: Microphones in 2020
by paul a. Since the start of November, I’ve been part of a special film club of sorts: one hosted weekly at the Filmmakers Co-op in New York, within the Charles S. Cohen screening room, with the ever-lovely and generous MM Serra serving as both projector and moderator. I regularly attend with my good friend/brother-in-arms Manny (notoriously known as pops baron on letterboxd) who’s been … Continue reading Dogme Year Zero: The Filmmaker’s Co-op
In early October, an email reached me. ‘Comrades of the Kino’, the first line addressed its recipients. Continue reading Dogme Year Zero: Topographies of Adolescence
Between the week-long disassociating spells and doom scrolling through the slow moving apocalypse, these albums acted as an anchor. Continue reading 2020 in Music
by paul a. It was Ken Jacobs who once floated the observation that “the avant-garde never starts on time,” but as the global events of 2020 began (and continued to) materialize, life also refused to play out in a timely manner. Contemporary existence has taken on the characteristics of stasis, but not complete inaction; within the creative industries, at least, the looming threat of complete economic … Continue reading The Best Experimental Moving Image Works of 2020
