Emily Jisoo Bowles on 3 films that screened at this year’s IFFR, which use found footage to interrogate historical, political and representational fissures.
Where Old Ships Go to Die: Jason Byrne on the Making of ‘Scrap Vessel’
Stephen Jeffrey Cappel speaks with Jason Byrne on the years long voyage to make Scrap Vessel (2009).
Joseph Bernard (1941–2025)
Dean Kavanagh on his friend and fellow filmmaker, the late Joseph Bernard.
The Expanding Universe: On Standish Lawder’s ‘Raindance’ (1972)
Ruairí McCann on ‘Raindance’, Standish Lawder’s optically printed miracle, a vast universe of light and motion scrambled and remade anew.
Peasants of the Cinema: António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro
Liam Kenny on Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis’s revolutionary cinema of Tràs-os-Montes, its lived-in and dreamlike poetics and their ethos of close communal collaboration.
The 24-Hour Working Girl
Ayanna Dozier writes on ‘Anora’ and its reductive vision of sex work as a client’s fantasy.
A Place Where a Week Lasts for Ten Days: On Kim Ayoung’s ‘Delivery Dancer’ Series
Jawni Han on the tyranny of capitalist time and other possible worlds in Kim Ayoung’s ‘Delivery Dancer’ series.
Revolt Against Production Models: An Interview with Camilo Restrepo
MLP interviews Camilo Restrepo on the occasion of his new feature film ‘Room of Shadows’.
Should Caravans Fly?: Ben Rivers on the Magic and Alchemy of ‘Bogancloch’
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.