A 16mm camera moves slowly across a sun-filled one-room apartment from the not-too-distant past. The colors are vibrant, we see a bright red velvet chair against a light-worn wooden wall. Breakfast is laid out on a circular table, half-finished and enticing.
Women’s Day: Three thoughts on Ute Aurand
Three thoughts offered on 16mm works by German experimental filmmaker Ute Aurand.
Women’s Day: The Limits of Intimacy and Language in the Genealogical Cinema Of Sofia Bohdanowicz
Over the course of three features, several shorts and an amalgamation of fiction and non-fiction, Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz has deepened her expression of how family wields a powerful and complex influence over an individual’s sense of self.
Compilation: International Women’s Day 2020
Join us in celebrating women artists of the world!
Women’s Day: Ring Around
by Yoana Pavlova Yoana Pavlova is a Bulgarian writer, researcher, and programmer, currently based in Paris. Founding editor of Festivalists.com, with bylines for various outlets in English and French, […]
Women’s Day: Perfect, Imperfect Endings – On Barbara Loden’s ‘Wanda’ (1970)
by Patrick Preziosi Art can be inherently political, but demanding didactic manifestations of intent and closed-circuit endpoints is anything but–– the most piercingly conscious works eschew such politeness […]
Album Review: ‘Circles’ by Mac Miller
When it comes to reevaluating posthumous releases from recently passed rappers these past few years, it’s been best to cede a little more slack than usual to the overall integrity of such projects, given the ever-growing porousness of release guidelines.
Best of the Decade: Music
As with our Best of the Decade in Film list, these album lists should be taken less as definitive statements on what was objectively best, and instead be […]
Best of the Decade: Film
We asked our contributing writers (as well as a couple of future contributors) to offer up lists of films from the last decade which impacted them in a significant way. While we are presenting these as our ‘best of’ lists, the idea was primarily to show several lists covering a variety of moving image works from the multiplex to the avant-garde, some well-loved, others perhaps under-seen.
Album Review: ‘Phantom Rhythm 幽靈節奏 (幽霊リズム)’ by Gong Gong Gong
by Ruairí McCann [bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=2418831432 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small] There are numerous landmarks set to be struck here on the eve of the 2020s but […]