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
Essay: Urban Landscapes and Modernity in Kitchen Sink Realism
In 1962, film critic and theorist Victor Perkins of Movie magazine complained of ‘landscape mongering’ in the English films of the late 1950s/early 1960s – they were part of a movement known as Kitchen Sink Realism. Continue reading Essay: Urban Landscapes and Modernity in Kitchen Sink Realism
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
Blu Review: Two Silent Films by John Ford (Eureka!)
by Ruairí McCann Produced and released by Eureka Entertainment’s Masters of Cinema line, this new Blu-ray boxset of two early silent John Ford westerns is most welcome. Not only because it makes readily available two very fine movies; it also offers a chance to pull at a thread that is too often ignored. The received critical approach to the western genre is to fasten its iterations … Continue reading Blu Review: Two Silent Films by John Ford (Eureka!)
