Yasmina Price on Jackie Raynal’s Deux fois and its exquisite corpse of formal experimentation and feminist reclamation of the cinematic space.
Sanaz Sohrabi’s An Incomplete Calendar: Rhymes and Songs for OPEC (2026)
Rebecka Öhrström Kann on Sanaz Sohrabi’s An Incomplete Calendar: Rhymes and Songs for OPEC and its histories of energy sovereignty and decolonial worldmaking, told through a collage of political and cultural material, ephemera and echos.
Liquid Visuality: Zhou Tao’s The Rib of the Greater Bay Area
Vedant Srinivas on Zhou Tao’s new film, The Rib of the Greater Bay Area and how his work presents ‘a topography in perpetual transformation, opening onto forms of perception rarely available to human experience.’
Resisting Death: On Gregory Markopoulos’ Galaxie
Joseph Dimacchia on Gregory Markopoulos’s Galaxie (1966), his complex portrait of the Greenwich Village art scene and rumination on the passage of time.
From Time to Time: Joseph Bernard and Super-8
Dean Kavanagh reflects on Joseph Bernard’s perceptual universe and the shifting nature and notions of the film image and its relationships with time, space, light and economics.
Nostos: A Lesson in Adaptation and Translation
Samuel Alexander on Franco Piavoli’s Nostos: Il Ritorno (1989), his mythopoetic and truly universal interpretation of The Odyssey.
On the Edges of Desire: The Cinema of Isabel Sandoval
Lé Baltar on the cinema of Isabel Sandoval and her exploration of desire as a landscape brimming with the frissons, frictions and contradictions of gender politics and identity.
Digging Underground: The Expansive Work of Archivistas Salvajes
Alonso Aguilar on the archival and curatorial collective Archivistas Salvajes and their intrepid and wide-ranging view of Cuban cinemas.
Stars Over People: Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light
Nguyễn Bình on Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light (2010) and the insights and blindspots of its central analogy, which links the unearthing of the Pinochet regime’s crimes with the cosmic outlook of astronomy.
As If the Trees By Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us: The Films of Peter Bundy
Alex Fields on Peter Bundy and how his evolving structuralist approach trained a perceptive eye and ear on the idiosyncrasies and profundities of regional American life and landscapes.