Blake Simons speaks with Akio Fujimoto, Kazutaka Watanabe and Sujauddin Karimuddin, the makers of Lost Land (2025), a vivid drama following two young siblings on a dangerous journey in the midst of the Rohingya Genocide.
Mountains From a Distance
Autumn Johnson on Monica Sorelle’s ‘Mountains’, a drama depicting the daily grind, aspirations and community of a Haitian family in a working class Miami under siege by the forces of capital.
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.
Blasphemy and Freedom: João César Monteiro’s Post-Revolutionary Cinema
Justine Smith dives into the defiant, bacchanalian and melancholy cinema of João César Monteiro.
The Devil’s Rendering: On Jiří Trnka’s Antifascist Visuals
Tyler Thier writes on Jiří Trnka’s antifascist, animated bricolages, placing their subversive tactility in opposition to frictionless and fascist AI imagery.
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.
Illusional Civilization: Bahram Beyzaei’s Journey
Faranak Nateghi on the context and poetics of Journey (Safar, 1972), Bahram Beyzaei’s metaphorical portrait of Tehran as a modern city of dazzling surfaces and transparent class inequality and alienation.
Pleasure Principles: Kalil Haddad on “He Never Dies”
Alexander Mooney speaks with Kalil Haddad about the radical queer form and convictions of his 4 film cycle, He Never Dies.
Dossier: Loren Connors
A new dossier of texts about the avant-garde blues of Loren Connors.