Tyler Thier writes on Jiří Trnka’s antifascist, animated bricolages, placing their subversive tactility in opposition to frictionless and fascist AI imagery.
Redrawing the Map: Alpe-Adria Underground! (2024) and the Unfolding Histories of Slovenian Experimental Cinema
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.
Illusional Civilization: Bahram Beyzaei’s Journey
Faranak Nateghi on the context and poetics of Journey (Safar, 1972), Bahram Beyzaei’s metaphorical portrait of Tehran as a modern city of dazzling surfaces and transparent class inequality and alienation.
Pleasure Principles: Kalil Haddad on “He Never Dies”
Alexander Mooney speaks with Kalil Haddad about the radical queer form and convictions of his 4 film cycle, He Never Dies.
“The Act of Creation is Driven by Memory”—An Interview with Filmmaker Vincent Guilbert
Ruairí McCann and Maximilien Luc Proctor speak with Vincent Guilbert about Gestures, his intimate, tactile and allusive portrait of Loren Connors.
To Be Exhaustive In Our Honesty: A Conversation with Trương Minh Quý on ‘Viet & Nam’
dương (ari) nguyễn speaks with Truong Minh Quy about his film, Viet & Nam (2024), a tender romance between two young miners and an exigesis of Vietnam’s past and present.
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.
Long Play: Sora Hokimoto on ‘BAUS’ and Shinji Aoyama’s Legacy
Blake Simons speaks with director Sora Hokimoto on his film and Shinji Aoyama’s final project, BAUS: The Long Voyage Continues (2025), the tale of an independent Tokyo cinema.
Faces in Death: Michael Roemer’s ‘Dying’
Devin Leong on the poetics of Michael Roemer’s 1976 documentary, Dying.
The Dawn Will Break: Two Films for Gaza
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