Arta Barzanji interviews Ben Rivers about his new film ‘Bogancloch’ (2024) and how both intuition and premeditation guide his filmmaking.
“Records Are Definitely My Education”: An Interview with Oren Ambarchi
MLP speaks with musician Oren Ambarchi about his approach to improvisation, the influence of cinema on his music and more in a wide-ranging interview.
Colors, Nailed to the Mast
Joshua Peinado on Michael Sicinski’s inspired curation of new experimental film at this year’s Houston Cinema Arts Festival.
Language as an Act of Marvel: A Personal Journey Through Translating Ruiz’s Diaries
Jaime Grijalba on The Ruiz Diaries substack, his daily project of translating the complete diaries of Raúl Ruiz into English.
A Night at the Museum
Abiba Coulibaly on Mati Diop’s ‘Dahomey’ and its vision of the museum as a space of colonial consumption & anti-colonial assertion.
Andrew Noren’s Lights and Shadows
Andrew Reichel on the elusive, mercurial & intimate cinema of Andrew Noren.
‘Beyond Meshes’: A Conversation with Michiko Ogawa
To coincide with ‘Beyond Meshes: The Film Music of Teiji Ito’ at Anthology Film Archives, we present a conversation between Ava Witonsky and Michiko Ogawa.
Letters as Letters, Letters as Numbers, Letters as Stories: On Audrey Lam’s ‘Us and the Night’ (2024)
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.