Olivia Hunter Willke scrutinizes the unlabeled inclusion of generative AI pieces in this year’s Onion City and Ann Arbor experimental film festivals.
Paul Leduc’s Baroque Militancy
Alonso Aguilar on the subversive baroque cinema of Paul Leduc.
Howls of Rage: Tracing Martial Law Politics in Lino Brocka’s Cinema
Vicky Huang on the topographies of class, control and rage in Lino Brocka’s Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) and Insiang (1976).
Living/Drawing/Seeing/Reading Between The Lines: The Films of Lily Jue Sheng
Coinciding with this month’s Movie Club screening of Lily Jue Sheng’s films, we present a text on the excavations and invocations of urban space, language and cultural inheritance found in their work.
Luminent Terrains: Four Windows by Barry Gerson
Joshua Peinado on the ecstatic, elemental cinema of Barry Gerson.
Light & Matter: An Interview with Gakuryu Ishii
Nel Dahl speaks with Gakuryu Ishii about his 1995 ecological fable August in the Water (1995) & his new film The Box Man (2024).
Cinema is a Death Mask: on Theo Montoya’s ‘Anhell69’
Annie Geng on Theo Montoya’s Anhell69 (2022) and its radical queer vision of community, resistance and mourning.
Now Serving: Experimental Shorts by Trans Filmmakers
We are proud to present 14 short films by trans filmmakers, streaming worldwide for free, from June 14 through June 28, 2024.
Fred Camper’s ‘Interactions’ and Meat-Ineffable
Drawing from Stan Brakhage’s notion of the ‘meat-ineffable’, Liam Kenny writes on Fred Camper’s ongoing Interactions series and its intricate, quotidian webs of perception.
The Cost of Thinking: Open City Documentary Festival 2024
Arta Barzanji reports from this year’s Open City Documentary Festival.