Our writers take stock of 3 special songs that got each of them through the dark days in 2021
The Strangely Familiar in Wen-Han Chang’s ‘Strange World’
Strange World (2018) is a short experimental film and photographic series by artist Wen-Han Chang that merges color, light, and ambient sound at a frenetic pace.
“The skeleton of what you’re making” — An Interview with Richard Forbes-Hamilton
In his latest work, (Third Study for) Swedge of Heaven (2020), multi-disciplinary artist Richard Forbes-Hamilton presents us with the precise image of his beat: a digitally animated individual with an oversized yellow whistle for a head – complete with a stoic ‘have a nice day’ smiley for a face – arrhythmically pounding on a drum with glow sticks.
Review: ‘To The Moon’ (2020), dir. Tadhg O’Sullivan
by Ruairí McCann One of the most iconic images of early cinema, from Georges Méliès’s Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902), depicts a cylindrical rocket ship lodged in […]
“The world is not a solid, intractable thing” — An Interview with Jerome Hiler
by Maximilien Luc Proctor I recently had the indelible pleasure of traveling to Frankfurt for a brand new festival called exf f. (Experimental film days Frankfurt). I had […]
‘Women in Revolt’
Women in Revolt is the kind of glorious filth they just don’t — or is it can’t? — make any more.
Major Minor Love—On Hong Sang-soo’s ‘Introduction’ and ‘In Front of Your Face’
There’s no standard criterion for deducing the major/minor status of any given Hong Sang-soo film, which occur at such a steady clip that even the usual associative buzzwords––prolific, generous, obsessive, redundant even––fail at even their most basic purpose.
Edie and Andy – ‘Poor Little Rich Girl’ and ‘Beauty No. 2’
To tell Andy’s story, you must also tell the story of Andy’s women: beautiful, fashionable, often tragic, and Edie Sedgwick crucial among them.