Kapita (2021), Petna Ndaliko Katondolo’s latest film and a selection at this year’s Berlinale (Forum Expanded), is a film about mining – through the mining of film. Continue reading Review: ‘Kapita’ (2021) dir. Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
A global pandemic demands innovation, and over the past year-and-change, we have observed a massive shift in the very idea of what a film festival can be. Continue reading Selections from Prismatic Ground: Small Films in a Large World
Founded by Inney Prakash in co-operation with Screen Slate and Maysles Cinema, Prismatic Ground is, in a fashion, the first festival of its kind. Continue reading On the (Prismatic) Ground Floor
In our first piece of ‘Prismatic Ground’ coverage, Ruairí McCann compares ‘Maat Means Land’ and ‘Letter From Your Far-Off Country’ Continue reading Diaspora and Disappearance: ‘Letter From Your Far-Off Country’ and ‘Maat Means Land’
“Inherent in the conditions under which it was made, and in it’s strange skirting and shifts there’s an artist testing out several ideas in purposeful denial of a thesis and in a game of constant, formal and spiritual incipience.” Continue reading Review: ‘Come Here’ (2021) dir. by Anocha Suwichakornpong
Dāvis Sīmanis’ The Year Before the War, which premiered in the Big Screen Competition section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in February, has all the potential to be one of the great festival hits of the year. Continue reading Who’s Afraid of Ideology? – on ‘The Year Before the War’ (2021, dir. Dāvis Sīmanis)
Max and Ruairí detail their personal histories with Deerhoof. Continue reading Correspondence: Deerhoof
Rounding up a well-overdue collection of memories from this year’s IFFR, Berlinale, and online festivals. Continue reading Diary: Fondly Remembering Festivals
Hello and welcome to the first-ever crossover episode between Ultra Dogme and Cinema Year Zero. Continue reading Compilation: Dogme Year Zero
by Ruairí McCann Near the end of Tsai Ming-liang’s film Afternoon (2015) — a conversation, filmed across 134 minutes and 4 shots, between Tsai and his muse Lee Kang-sheng — the filmmaker fills a lull with prognostication on his art. Influenced by the shadow of Stray Dogs (2013), a production troubled by Tsai’s own health complications, he contemplates never making another movie. However, he quickly … Continue reading Review: ‘Days’ (2020, dir. Tsai Ming-liang) – London Film Festival
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