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.
“Cinema is made with blood”—the Super 8 cinema of Teo Hernández
On the occasion of an ambitious retrospective of the work of Teo Hernández at MOMA, which opens tomorrow, Ultra Dogme’s own Maximilien Luc Proctor delves into Hernández’s diaries and films. Illuminating the vivacious and free-spirited life and perspective of one of cinema’s most soul-stirring scapegraces.
Yo! Ho Chi Minh is in the House!: Reflections on Jazz and the Vietnam War
Patrick Preziosi on the reverberations of the Vietnam War in the art of several major American jazz musicians including Steve Lacy, Henry Threadgill, Revolutionary Ensemble and Billy Bang.
A Universe of Music in an Appalachian City: Big Ears Festival 2026
Alex Fields reports from this year’s Big Ears in Knoxville, delving into the music festival’s far-reaching lineup, moods and spaces.
Automatic Chronograph: The Films of Anocha Suwichakornpong
Jawni Han on Anocha Suwichakornpong’s protean use of cinema to express the unstable confluence of the personal and political, the past and the present.