Alex Fields on Ernie Gehr’s digital work and the insatiable, playful curiosity in the boundaries of perception, space and light which underpins all of his films.
A Few Bright Spots in the Desert: A Report on the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival
Reporting on the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Joshua Peinado writes about some of the high points of this year’s edition.
Children of the Night: On ‘Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere’ (2023)
Arta Barzanji on Sylvain George’s ‘Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere’ (2023), an intimate, roving account of young refugees living in the buffer city of Melilla.
Nelson Makengo: Mapping Darkness Through Faith
Xavier Alexandre Pillai writes about Nelson Makengo’s debut feature documentary Rising Up At Night.
Visualising the Palestinian Struggle: Khadijeh Habashneh and the Palestine Film Unit
Leena Habiballa on filmmaker and scholar Khadijeh Habashneh, the Palestine Film Unit and their mission of revolutionary struggle through cinema.
Apparitions Strange and Familiar: The Film and Video Works of Nour Ouayda
Coinciding with this month’s Movie Club screening of Nour Ouayda’s THE SECRET GARDEN (2023), we present a text on Ouayda’s oeuvre.
Loneliness and Longing: When the Apocalypse is Over
Winnie Wang writes about “When the Apocalypse is Over” — a series of contemporary films from the Philippines opening this February at BAM.
The Scale of Being: Linnea Nugent’s Haptic, Semi-Handmade Images
An introduction to the work of New York filmmaker Linnea Nugent, streaming Dec 8-22 in the Movie Club.
Mambar Pierrette: All of Cameroon’s Cares on Her Shoulders
Abiba Coulibaly writes about Rosine Mbakam’s first narrative feature film, MAMBAR PIERRETTE.
Spirits Rebel: On Julius-Amédée Laou’s Cinema of Revenants
Ruairí McCann on the films of Julius-Amédée Laou.