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.
Now Serving: Experimental Shorts by Trans Filmmakers
We are proud to present 14 short films by trans filmmakers, streaming worldwide for free, from June 14 through June 28, 2024.
Fred Camper’s ‘Interactions’ and Meat-Ineffable
Drawing from Stan Brakhage’s notion of the ‘meat-ineffable’, Liam Kenny writes on Fred Camper’s ongoing Interactions series and its intricate, quotidian webs of perception.
The Cost of Thinking: Open City Documentary Festival 2024
Arta Barzanji reports from this year’s Open City Documentary Festival.
Video Upside Down: Ernie Gehr’s Digital Era
Alex Fields on Ernie Gehr’s digital work and the insatiable, playful curiosity in the boundaries of perception, space and light which underpins all of his films.
A Few Bright Spots in the Desert: A Report on the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival
Reporting on the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Joshua Peinado writes about some of the high points of this year’s edition.
Children of the Night: On ‘Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere’ (2023)
Arta Barzanji on Sylvain George’s ‘Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere’ (2023), an intimate, roving account of young refugees living in the buffer city of Melilla.
Nelson Makengo: Mapping Darkness Through Faith
Xavier Alexandre Pillai writes about Nelson Makengo’s debut feature documentary Rising Up At Night.