Festival Coverage, Film, Reviews, Rotterdam 2021

Communing in a Corporatized University: ‘Manifesto’ (2020) by Ane Hjort Guttu

by Tomáš Hudák In her latest short film Manifesto, awarded the Dutch critics’ KNF Award at IFF Rotterdam, artist and filmmaker Ane Hjort Guttu examines the institution of university, power relations, and the idea of utopia. Stylized as a documentary, the film focuses on a Norwegian art school that has recently been integrated into a larger university. With staff and students struggling to keep the … Continue reading Communing in a Corporatized University: ‘Manifesto’ (2020) by Ane Hjort Guttu

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books, Film, Reviews

Book Review: ‘Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville’ by Andrew Dickos

Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville is a well-researched and written primer for one of French cinema’s greatest mad mercenaries and lionhearts. Continue reading Book Review: ‘Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville’ by Andrew Dickos

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Film, Reviews

Two Short Films by Atoosa Pour Hosseini, A Report from LUMINOUS VOID: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society at the Project Arts Centre

Atoosa Pour Hosseini is intent on depicting and blurring notions of performed art and documentary footage with mythic and deconstructed imagery, and the Holocene mingled with the Anthropocene. Continue reading Two Short Films by Atoosa Pour Hosseini, A Report from LUMINOUS VOID: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society at the Project Arts Centre

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Berlinale 2021, Festival Coverage, Film, Reviews

Berlinale Shorts 2021

On the occasion of the 71st Berlinale, Camilla Peeters and Jack Seibert share their thoughts on selections from this year’s Berlinale Shorts. This year the festival is being held June 9-20 (instead of the usual dreary February) as a ‘summer special’, holding in-person screenings via various open-air kinos throughout the city. Continue reading Berlinale Shorts 2021

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Film, Reviews

Review: “I am thinking of you [in Streams]” – ‘Bella’ (2020), dir. Thelyia Petraki

Love might be felt in streams – at times, continuous, and yet, in spaced flashes once memory is called to speak. Continue reading Review: “I am thinking of you [in Streams]” – ‘Bella’ (2020), dir. Thelyia Petraki

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essay, Film, Reviews

Essay: A Time For Many Words – Canon Formation, National Unity and ‘The Travelling Players’

Invariably, any appraisal of Theodoros Angelopoulos’ 1975 film The Travelling Players makes note of its length—230 minutes, to be precise—as well as it’s ostentatious style—it consists of just 80 shots, almost all of which are sequence shots and hardly any are tighter than a medium close-up. Continue reading Essay: A Time For Many Words – Canon Formation, National Unity and ‘The Travelling Players’

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Correspondence, Film, Reviews

Correspondence: ‘Wife of a Spy’ (2020), dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Patrick Prezisoi and Ryan Swen exchange thoughts on classicist vs. ground breaking tendencies (and much more) in the latest from Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Continue reading Correspondence: ‘Wife of a Spy’ (2020), dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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Berlinale 2021, Festival Coverage, Film, Reviews

Review: ‘Kapita’ (2021) dir. Petna Ndaliko Katondolo

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

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Festival Coverage, Film, Prismatic Ground 2021, Reviews

Selections from Prismatic Ground: Small Films in a Large World

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

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essay, Film, Reviews

Lucrecia Martel: Four Feature Films

A teenage girl lies on a towel, stealing glances at a man swimming in an indoor pool. The man, who might be her mother’s age, whips around as if sensing someone’s gaze and the girl flinches out of sight, slipping as she does into prayer — intoned and feverish, like an incantation: mother most chaste mother most pure mother without fault… Continue reading Lucrecia Martel: Four Feature Films

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