Welcome to the future. We ride on the last of many train cars, which is the present, traveling forward through the past, or the future. In our daily life the past may as well be the future.
Essay: There’s no democracy of hands but there are many hands in a democracy: ‘City Hall’ (2020) and ‘Her Socialist Smile’ (2020)
To look at the design and flaws of American politics and democracy, Wiseman chooses an entire city and its system as his focal point. Gianvito, on the other hand, chooses a single individual, whose life nevertheless encapsulated a tumultuous early 20th century.
UDVFF: Special Screening #2 – ‘Driftwood’
We will be live-streaming our second special UDVFF program next Friday, February 12th at 8pm Berlin Time (Central European Time).
Dogme Year Zero: The Filmmaker’s Co-op
by paul a. Since the start of November, I’ve been part of a special film club of sorts: one hosted weekly at the Filmmakers Co-op in New York, […]
The Best Experimental Moving Image Works of 2020
by paul a. It was Ken Jacobs who once floated the observation that “the avant-garde never starts on time,” but as the global events of 2020 began (and […]
DVD Review: ‘The Angel Cycle: Selected Works’ by Maria Klonaris + Katerina Thomadaki (Re:Voir Video)
Re:Voir has recently released a modest gem of a set: selected works from The Angel Cycle, by Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki – the first-ever home video release which samples from the duo’s vast body of work.
DVD Review: ‘Light Years’ by Gunvor Nelson (Re:Voir video)
by MLP Fog Pumas (1967) opens on the inverted black and white of a negative image of a naked girl, lying in an empty bathtub. The camera then […]
UDVFF 11: Agitated Meditation
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the eleventh program of our Virtual Film Festival, which offers a weekly watching schedule of moving image works available for free streaming. Previous programs […]
UDVFF 8: “This is your home, you’re part of everything”
This week we are happy to share links to three nearly-feature-length titles made available by FRACTO and Anthology Film Archives.