A.E. Hunt speaks with artist Tenzin Phuntsog about his works at the Berlinale Forum Expanded, showing through March 5th. Continue reading In and Out Front of You: An Interview with Tenzin Phuntsog
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. Continue reading The Raw and the Cooked: Larry Gottheim’s ‘Corn’ (1970)
by Florian Weigl One way to test the cinephile mettle of a country is to go to its most prominent festival of festivals. Canada and Toronto have TIFF, the U.S and New York have NYFF, Austria and Vienna have the Viennale and Germany and Berlin, well, we have Around The World in 14 Films. Founded by Bernhard Karl, Kathrin Bessert and Nikola Mirza in 2005 … Continue reading Around The World in 14 Films: ‘When The Waves Are Gone’, ‘EO’ and ‘Trenque Lauquen’
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. Continue reading Carolee Schneemann at Spectacle
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, Fire; Blood On The Field: A Collection of Materials by Manfred Blank in Filmkritik Nr. 268 | 04/1979 | S.158 – 173 Oedipus and Tiresias sit on a cart. One can see them from behind. Two cows … Continue reading Translation: ‘Moon, Sun, Water, Fire; Blood on the Field: A Collection of Materials’ by Manfred Blank
“The thrill of seeing bastions of society crumble in real time, the pervading sense of quiet reluctance as the doomsday clock moves forward, the grimy and unkempt edges of a world whose hope of subsisting is quickly fading away…” Continue reading Contemporary Limbo: Albert Serra’s ‘Pacifiction’
A 10-day streaming program of three films by Esther Shatavsky, alongside the first major interview with the filmmaker. Continue reading Nursery Rhymes: Three Films by Esther Shatavsky
Hole in the Head, the new feature from Dean Kavanagh, is a wonderfully labile rendition of cinematic obsession as a simultaneously profound, absurd, deracinating, and visceral experience. Continue reading Ghost in the Machine: ‘Hole in the Head’ (2022)
“Not all featured works are formally experimental, but presented as experimental ontologically: the landing page of the website bears a curatorial statement that calls this practice “part of an endless repertoire and arsenal of Black survival.”” Continue reading The Uses of Myth | Spectral Grounds: Black Experimental Film
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. Continue reading Neocolonial Grip: Ousmane Sembène’s ‘Tauw’ (1970) + Djibril Diop Mambéty’s ‘Le Franc’ (1994)
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