Arta Barzanji reports from this year’s Open City Documentary Festival.
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.
Translation: ‘Hollywood in Germany or: Culture as Currency’ by Sohrab Shahid Saless
On the occasion of Film & Fernseh Juwelen’s Blu-ray release of Sohrab Shahid Saless’ Utopia, hitherto only available in a borderline unwatchable condition, I present to you the English translation of a text written by Saless himself after making Utopia.
On Bodies: ‘The House Is Black’ and the Politics of Corporeal Representation(s)
In his essay “The Queen of Sheba,”1 Iranian critic Hesam Amiri recounts the reactions that The House Is Black (1963) received from reviewers upon its release. The common thread among all of the predominantly negative reviews was that the film was deemed “too feminine” or (contradicting the prior claim) that it was not actually directed by Forough Farrokhzad, but by her partner, the prominent filmmaker and writer Ebrahim Golestan…
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.
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.
Compilation: International Women’s Day 2020
Join us in celebrating women artists of the world!
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.