Ruairí McCann and Maximilien Luc Proctor speak with Loren Connors in a wide-ranging conversation about the film Gestures, his music, life and influences.
Loren’s Laments: Loren Connors’ Eulogies and Evocations of Old New York
Ruairí McCann on the power of Loren Connors’ ’90s historical NYC records and their communion with the dead.
To Be Exhaustive In Our Honesty: A Conversation with Trương Minh Quý on ‘Viet & Nam’
dương (ari) nguyễn speaks with Truong Minh Quy about his film, Viet & Nam (2024), a tender romance between two young miners and an exigesis of Vietnam’s past and present.
I Saw a Dry Leaf in a Field of Flowers: Locarno 78 and the Texture of Cinema
Arta Barzanji reports from this year’s Locarno Film Festival on the experimentation of Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf and Radu Jude’s Dracula.
Long Play: Sora Hokimoto on ‘BAUS’ and Shinji Aoyama’s Legacy
Blake Simons speaks with director Sora Hokimoto on his film and Shinji Aoyama’s final project, BAUS: The Long Voyage Continues (2025), the tale of an independent Tokyo cinema.
Faces in Death: Michael Roemer’s ‘Dying’
Devin Leong on the poetics of Michael Roemer’s 1976 documentary, Dying.
The Dawn Will Break: Two Films for Gaza
Our new free streaming program, a donation initiative for the people of Gaza.
Ciro Durán’s ‘La Paga’ Restored: A Conversation with Vladimir Durán
Finn Jubak speaks with Vladimir Durán about the restoration of La Paga (1962), his late father Ciro Durán’s first film and a landmark in Colombian and Venezuelan cinema history.
Subtle Spacecrafts & Shifting Climates
Emma Fuchs on the ‘subtle science fiction’ approach to depicting the vicissitudes of climate change and modernity in Still Life, Lazzaro Felice and Bacurau.
An Unsettled Materialism: The Super 8 Films of Jean-Claude Rousseau
Avalyn Wu draws on Cezanne to discuss Jean-Claude Rousseau’s penetrating and vivid materialist filmmaking.