Ruairí McCann on the films of Julius-Amédée Laou.
Celluloid Now, More Than Ever
Olivia Hunter Willke surveys this year’s CELLULOID NOW, an all-analog “community-centered and artist-forward” film series in Chicago.
Looking for Clues: Mary Helena Clark’s First Films
Sam Warren Miell on Mary Helena Clark’s early work and the challenges of her disarmingly metonymic cinema.
Oil and Water: Three Films by Nikos Nikolaidis
by Dylan Adamson At about the half hour mark of Nikos Nikolaidis’ Morning Patrol (1987), the unnamed lead character wanders into an empty movie theater, drawn by the […]
The Raw and the Cooked: Larry Gottheim’s ‘Corn’ (1970)
Corn captures a static, but never contained view of an ordinary moment in the kitchen, accounting for the ways in which evening sunlight falls into the room and emanating vapor textures the air.
Carolee Schneemann at Spectacle
Cinematic films and performance documentation have often been separated categorically. Yet, Carolee Schneemann’s films push against these distinctions, whether by painting with her camera or mirroring back moments in time.
Translation: ‘Moon, Sun, Water, Fire; Blood on the Field: A Collection of Materials’ by Manfred Blank
Translated by Florian Weigl Previously re-published as Un receuil de matériaux in a French translation by Danièle Huillet in Cahiers du cinéma Nr. 305 (11/1979) Moon, Sun, Water, […]
Neocolonial Grip: Ousmane Sembène’s ‘Tauw’ (1970) + Djibril Diop Mambéty’s ‘Le Franc’ (1994)
Currency takes even more of a centre stage in some of their lesser-known shorts steeped in acute political commentary: Le Franc (1994) and Tauw (1970) respectively, which delve deeper into many of the context-specific issues of cash—and lack thereof—in Francophone Africa, exposing the incomplete nature of the decolonial project.
Master and Slave (Masculine) Morality: ‘Nishant’ (1976)
Anand Sudha writes about oppression and revolution in Shyam Bengal’s Nishant.