Librarian-filmmakers James Devine & Blanca García on Audrey Lam’s ‘Us and the Night’ (2024) and its vision of the library as a small yet sweeping cosmology of facts, figments, connections and intimacy.
An Interview with Lee Jangwook
To mark the occasion of a program focused on Lee’s work on October 26th, we are publishing Ruairí McCann’s Patreon-exclusive interview with the filmmaker.
Beyond Death and Separate(d) from Life: On ‘The Third World from the Sun’
Coinciding with this month’s Movie Club screening of Analú Laferal and Tiagx Vélez’s ‘The Third World After the Sun’, we present an essay on the the film.
AInfection: Generative Artificial Intelligence Infiltrates the Avant-Garde
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.