For this program, I wanted to consider the medium of transmission. For quite some time, many of us have been experiencing 16mm and 35mm films (as well as digital videos) as digital files, DVDs, or as bits of streaming information…
Berlinale 2020: “Maybe a Singular Mountain is a Feeling,” An Interview with Pushpendra Singh
by MLP As the festival came to a close, and my viewing-energy dwindled, my dear friend Anuj wrote me one evening to ask if I would be interested […]
UDVFF 2: Comparmentalized Collapse
In these strange, scary and all around unprecedented times, there’s a considerable fret to find the most “relevant” film to best encapsulate what feels like a consistently devolving, worldwide health crisis.
“Lil Uzi Vert, to Be Exact”: On Eternal Atake/Lil Uzi Vs. The World 2
If anyone were to ask you for either a time capsule of rap music in 2016, or an embryonic example of the seedlings of what’s become one of hip-hop’s equally richest and bewildering creative eras yet, you’d simply have to present them the 2016 XXL Freshman Cypher…
The Ultra Dogme Virtual Film Festival 1: From a Distance
Welcome to the first Ultra Dogme Virtual Film Festival. We are excited to be trying something new.
Announcement: Ultra Dogme’s First Virtual Film Festival
We’re starting a virtual film festival this Saturday, March 21st.
Album Review: ‘Mystic Familiar’ by Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon – in his lyrics, interviews and in the goofball soapbox aspect of his live performances – is loose-tongued and lucid about the headspace which produced his fifth and newest album, Mystic Familiar (2020)
Women’s Day: Two Poems ‘after Adrienne Rich’
by Kaylee Lockett This the Dream In this poem,everything is a woman.And by that I meaneverything is water.Hard, clean, rushing. Everything is eatingflowers. Nasturtiums.Shawarma. We all havebellies, here, in […]
Women’s Day: “Stuck On This Bridge of Friendship” – An Interview with Ivana Mladenović
Woche der Kritik 2020 endowed us with an opportunity to dive back into the summer of 2017, through the lens (both retinal and camera) of Ivana, the Terrible. Ivana, the Terrible, flavorful as it is, is only a snippet of the broad world of Ivana Mladenović.
Women’s Day: Danièle Huillet – A Moral Artist
Arta Barzanji selects a brief excerpt from ‘Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene’ as a tribute to Danièle Huillet.