“The lyrics to ‘Trash Generator’ are somewhat about being bogged down by digital bullshit; the digital wasteland of your phone, computers, technology… I think it was probably a subconscious reaction to just the world now.”
Berlinale 2018: ‘Season of the Devil’ by Lav Diaz
At last month’s Berlinale I managed to sit down with a pair of compelling filmmakers for a bit of conersation: Lav Diaz and James Benning. Though the Benning […]
An Interview with Todd Rittmann (Dead Rider)
Dead Rider is back with their first album since 2014’s excellent Chills on Glass, the atmospheric hard-rocking Crew Licks. The band is fronted by Todd Rittmann, from whom their name […]
(Reminiscences of a) Journey to Lithuania: Vilnius Film Festival 2017
Though it’s now been three months since I visited, the Vilnius Film Festival left a greater impression on me as an experience than most of the actual films. […]
An Interview with Tim Kinsella
When I find him just getting off the tour bus parked in front of SO36, Tim Kinsella is wearing a blue ‘Rainbo’-bread trucker’s hat, sunglasses, and a leather […]
An Interview with Director Sergei Loznitsa (Austerlitz, 2016)
I’m a visiting ‘special guest’ at the Vilnius Film Festival or Kino Pavasaris (Cinema Spring) as it’s known here, and I’m waiting to meet director (and fellow ‘special guest’) […]
Interview with Director Laura Schroeder (Barrage, 2017)
Composed predominantly of stillness with erratic musical outbursts, ‘Barrage’ focuses on a tri-generational rift in feminine identity building, in which each daughter fails to completely understand her own […]
Berlinale #4: Interview with Mathieu Denis about ‘Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves’
A three-hour venture about the 2012 Quebec student protests and four fictional characters as they carried their ideas forward in the following years, and featuring an overture and […]
Berlinale #3: Interview with Julian Radlmaier about his debut feature film ‘Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog’
As the 67th International Berlin Film Festival came to a steady close, I sat down with the (relatively) young German director Julian Radlmaier about his debut feature film […]
Berlinale #2 (2017)
The festival has officially ended but my coverage is far from over. In case you missed it, I wrote a short piece at the outset of the festival […]