This week we are happy to share links to three nearly-feature-length titles made available by FRACTO and Anthology Film Archives.
DVD Review: ‘Das Goldene Tor’ by Jürgen Reble (Re:Voir video)
by MLP I was completely unaware, prior to watching Das Goldene Tor (1992) (‘The Golden Gate’), that I had actually seen work by Jürgen Reble before, albeit as […]
Committed Distancing: On Car Seat Headrest’s ‘Making a Door Less Open’ and Drake’s ‘Dark Lane Demo Tapes’
Bitching about fame is commonplace in popular music, and bitching about a musician’s bitching is just as recurrent a talking point as well.
UDVFF 7: RE:VOIR + ANALOGICA + FRACTO
This week, we’re doing something a little different.
UDVFF 6: Buried in Song
Here is a list of media that has spoken to me recently, all in the format of moving
image – Youtube, Vimeo – but with varying sensory focus; many are for the music, some
silent, others focus on words.
Revolutionizing Festivals – Notes on the First Virtual Ann Arbor Film Festival
If somebody had told me that my first experience of Ann Arbor Film Festival would happen during one of the worst pandemics in recent human history, while I was locked down in the Parisian periphery, I would have seriously reconsidered this person’s mental condition.
Review: ‘My First Film’ (2018) by Zia Anger
by Savina Petkova “You’re in”, reads the email. I slide out of my chair to make myself a coffee – it’s going to be a long night. After […]
UDVFF 5: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men – Interrogations and Alternatives
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the fifth program of our Virtual Film Festival, which offers a weekly watching schedule of moving image works available for free streaming, and curated […]
UDVFF 4: In Proximity
You and I have (hopefully) spent the past few weeks at a home, in isolation, away from noise and crowds. In this isolation, one inevitably bumps into oneself.
“There is magic to be found in everything” – Looking at films by Nathaniel Dorsky
Nathaniel Dorsky began making films in the 1960s, and worked for many years as an editor on various commercial film projects which had nothing to do with his personal interests as an artist. For him, there is a strict separation between a film made for money and a film made personally.