Nelson Makengo: Mapping Darkness Through Faith
Xavier Alexandre Pillai writes about Nelson Makengo’s debut feature documentary Rising Up At Night. Continue reading Nelson Makengo: Mapping Darkness Through Faith
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Turbulence & Jouissance: An Interview with Sofia Theodore-Pierce
by Ruairí McCann In her essay Écriture, Marguerite Duras describes the act of writing in terms that at first seem contradictory, and yet gradually the paradoxes begin to resonate. For her, writing is a way and formalisation of living, defined by words such as solitude and separation, for the writer is alone, apart from the world. And yet she taps into it but through a … Continue reading Turbulence & Jouissance: An Interview with Sofia Theodore-Pierce
Visualising the Palestinian Struggle: Khadijeh Habashneh and the Palestine Film Unit
by Leena Habiballa The Naksa of 1967 and the rapid expansion of the Israeli occupation during the Six Day War marked a significant turning point in the development of Palestinian cinema. The escalation in Israeli settler violence sparked an insurrection in Palestine and the rise of guerilla freedom fighters, fedayeen, as regional actors against a new mass exodus. Palestinian filmworkers exiled in the diaspora across … Continue reading Visualising the Palestinian Struggle: Khadijeh Habashneh and the Palestine Film Unit
Three Promises: A Cinematic Journey into Love, Loss, and the Untold Stories of Palestine
Hoor ElShafei reports from the Reel Palestine festival in Dubai. Continue reading Three Promises: A Cinematic Journey into Love, Loss, and the Untold Stories of Palestine
A Statement on the 74th Berlinale
We, the editors of Ultra Dogme, would like to reiterate our support for the Strike Germany campaign, and the boycott of Berlinale and its associated events in protest against Germany’s political and financial support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing criminalisation of Palestinian culture, identity and solidarity. We encourage all filmmakers, critics, editors, programmers and artworkers to join us in this boycott and in … Continue reading A Statement on the 74th Berlinale
Apparitions Strange and Familiar: The Film and Video Works of Nour Ouayda
Coinciding with this month’s Movie Club screening of Nour Ouayda’s THE SECRET GARDEN (2023), we present a text on Ouayda’s oeuvre. Continue reading Apparitions Strange and Familiar: The Film and Video Works of Nour Ouayda
Loneliness and Longing: When the Apocalypse is Over
Winnie Wang writes about “When the Apocalypse is Over” — a series of contemporary films from the Philippines opening this February at BAM. Continue reading Loneliness and Longing: When the Apocalypse is Over
Cinema of the Sun, Moon & Stars: An Interview with Sylvia Schedelbauer
On the occasion of a retrospective at 25 FPS Festival in Zagreb, Ejla Kovačević interviews German-Japanese film artist Sylvia Schedelbauer Continue reading Cinema of the Sun, Moon & Stars: An Interview with Sylvia Schedelbauer
Negotiating Tenderness: Marija Kavtaradze on ‘Slow’
Director Marija Kavtaradze talks about creating new images of intimacy for her sophomore feature “Slow.”
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The Scale of Being: Linnea Nugent’s Haptic, Semi-Handmade Images
An introduction to the work of New York filmmaker Linnea Nugent, streaming Dec 8-22 in the Movie Club. Continue reading The Scale of Being: Linnea Nugent’s Haptic, Semi-Handmade Images