Anand Sudha corresponded with Ashish Avikunthak on Avikunthak’s metatextual The Killing of Meghnad (2026), discussing its complex web of source texts and spiritual, political and colonial ideas, which reverberate throughout India’s classical and modern history, right up to this uncertain present moment.
As If the Trees By Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us: The Films of Peter Bundy
Alex Fields on Peter Bundy and how his evolving structuralist approach trained a perceptive eye and ear on the idiosyncrasies and profundities of regional American life and landscapes.
“Cinema is made with blood”—the Super 8 cinema of Teo Hernández
On the occasion of an ambitious retrospective of the work of Teo Hernández at MOMA, which opens tomorrow, Ultra Dogme’s own Maximilien Luc Proctor delves into Hernández’s diaries and films. Illuminating the vivacious and free-spirited life and perspective of one of cinema’s most soul-stirring scapegraces.
Automatic Chronograph: The Films of Anocha Suwichakornpong
Jawni Han on Anocha Suwichakornpong’s protean use of cinema to express the unstable confluence of the personal and political, the past and the present.
The Pulp Archives: Mark Webber and Paul Burgess on Film, Books, Pulp and More
Nel Dahl has authored an ambitious diptych of interviews with two key creative forces behind the band, Pulp: guitarist and keyboardist, Mark Webber and their longtime closely associated photographer, Paul Burgess.
Memory and Coexistences: An Interview with Jeannette Muñoz
Luca Mannella spoke with Jeannette Muñoz about her ‘cinema of fragments, gifts and exchanges’ and how it delves into a complex weave of historical, ecological and colonialist realities.
Dances with Pyramids: Michael Robinson’s These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (2010)
Olivia Hunter Willke on the gilded and star-studded digital afterlife of Michael Robinson’s These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (2010)
Mementos: On Gunvor Nelson’s Family Matters
Ruairí McCann on the late Gunvor Nelson’s cinematic embodiments of the conflicts, complexities and revelations of family life and ageing.
Images of Time: An Interview with Shinya Isobe
Alex Fields speaks with Shinya Isobe about the gradual development of his experimental approach, time and cinema, the dynamic presence of sound in his work, and more.
Redrawing the Map: Alpe-Adria Underground! (2024) and the Unfolding Histories of Slovenian Experimental Cinema
Mariya Nikiforova writes about Alpe-Adria Underground! (2024), an ambitious chronicle of Slovenia experimental cinema. Nikiforova’s essay digs into the challenges of film historiography while giving a detailed overview of this rich and overlooked heritage.