At the recent French premiere of the documentary film The War is Never Over (2019, dir. Beth B), iconic No wave queen Lydia Lunch – whose tumultuous life and career are the subject of the film – described her constant struggle with childhood trauma as the creative force behind her long-lasting career as an artist, which now stretches over four decades.
Women’s Day: Could there be holes that even the kindness of cats can’t fill? – Naoko Ogigami’s ‘Rent-a-cat’ (2012) and compassionate improbabilities
“Feeling lonely? I’ll lend you a cat.”
Women’s Day: ‘La Chambre’ (1972) by Chantal Akerman
A 16mm camera moves slowly across a sun-filled one-room apartment from the not-too-distant past. The colors are vibrant, we see a bright red velvet chair against a light-worn wooden wall. Breakfast is laid out on a circular table, half-finished and enticing.
Women’s Day: Three thoughts on Ute Aurand
Three thoughts offered on 16mm works by German experimental filmmaker Ute Aurand.
Women’s Day: The Limits of Intimacy and Language in the Genealogical Cinema Of Sofia Bohdanowicz
Over the course of three features, several shorts and an amalgamation of fiction and non-fiction, Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz has deepened her expression of how family wields a powerful and complex influence over an individual’s sense of self.
Women’s Day: Perfect, Imperfect Endings – On Barbara Loden’s ‘Wanda’ (1970)
by Patrick Preziosi Art can be inherently political, but demanding didactic manifestations of intent and closed-circuit endpoints is anything but–– the most piercingly conscious works eschew such politeness […]
Best of the Decade: Film
We asked our contributing writers (as well as a couple of future contributors) to offer up lists of films from the last decade which impacted them in a significant way. While we are presenting these as our ‘best of’ lists, the idea was primarily to show several lists covering a variety of moving image works from the multiplex to the avant-garde, some well-loved, others perhaps under-seen.
TROUT FUN #3: Tobias Burms on ‘HOME’ (2016, dir. Fien Troch)
In the third installment of TROUT FUN, an ongoing series of articles by guest writers and fellow critics, Tobias Burms joins us again for his take on last […]
Interview: Pablo Larraín On His New Film ‘El Club’
I recently had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Chilean director Pablo Larraín about his newest film El Club which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlinale in February and […]