
On the (Prismatic) Ground Floor
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
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’
The destruction of a building: more important than the brief moment of the blast are the hours leading up to the detonation. Continue reading The Awkward Altbau – Urban Structures and Dreams of the Future in Konrad Wolf’s ‘Solo Sunny’ (1980)
It’s important to remember that The Weeknd and House of Balloons were first. Continue reading “But I’m a Nice Dude, With Some Nice Dreams” – The Weeknd’s ‘House of Balloons’ Turns 10
“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
Happy International Women’s Day Continue reading Compilation: Women’s Day 2021
by MLP Last fall, Second Run released a 2-disc blu-ray set featuring 8.6 hours of work by American artist-filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, titled ‘How You Live Your Story’. ‘Artist-filmmaker’ works better here as a descriptor than in its usual capacity. That is to say, while the term often refers to filmmakers working with just about anything other than conventional narrative, Everson is, more specifically, someone … Continue reading Blu Review: ‘How You Live Your Story – Selected works by Kevin Jerome Everson’ (Second Run)
Welcome to the future. We ride on the last of many train cars, which is the present, traveling forward through the past, or the future. In our daily life the past may as well be the future. Continue reading On Catching Glimpses…
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)
Judging by its title, Hungary’s submission for the Oscars may sound mechanical and stiff, but director Lili Horvát’s second feature is anything but. Continue reading Review: ‘Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time’ (2020, dir. Lili Horvát)