Mariya Nikiforova writes about Alpe-Adria Underground! (2024), an ambitious chronicle of Slovenia experimental cinema. Nikiforova’s essay digs into the challenges of film historiography while giving a detailed overview of this rich and overlooked heritage.
I Saw a Dry Leaf in a Field of Flowers: Locarno 78 and the Texture of Cinema
Arta Barzanji reports from this year’s Locarno Film Festival on the experimentation of Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf and Radu Jude’s Dracula.
Kaleidoscopes of Solidarity: Light Field 2025
Dan Ziegler writes on San Francisco’s Light Field Film Festival 2025.
Revolutionary Desires: Films of The Afro-Asian Film Festival and the ‘Bandung Spirit’ at IFFR 2025
Cici Peng on the revolutionary dynamics of several films featured at the ‘third worldist’ Afro-Asian Film Festival and screened at IFFR for the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference.
Reading Through Loss: Archival Film Practices at IFFR 2025
Emily Jisoo Bowles on 3 films that screened at this year’s IFFR, which use found footage to interrogate historical, political and representational fissures.
Colors, Nailed to the Mast
Joshua Peinado on Michael Sicinski’s inspired curation of new experimental film at this year’s Houston Cinema Arts Festival.
AInfection: Generative Artificial Intelligence Infiltrates the Avant-Garde
Olivia Hunter Willke scrutinizes the unlabeled inclusion of generative AI pieces in this year’s Onion City and Ann Arbor experimental film festivals.
The Cost of Thinking: Open City Documentary Festival 2024
Arta Barzanji reports from this year’s Open City Documentary Festival.
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.
Three Promises: A Cinematic Journey into Love, Loss, and the Untold Stories of Palestine
Hoor ElShafei reports from the Reel Palestine festival in Dubai.