Ruairí McCann on the films of Julius-Amédée Laou.
Stream: ‘Gestures’ by Vincent Guilbert
October’s Movie Club stream: GESTURES by Vincent Guilbert
Celluloid Now, More Than Ever
Olivia Hunter Willke surveys this year’s CELLULOID NOW, an all-analog “community-centered and artist-forward” film series in Chicago.
Looking for Clues: Mary Helena Clark’s First Films
Sam Warren Miell on Mary Helena Clark’s early work and the challenges of her disarmingly metonymic cinema.
Run Towards the Screen, or Reality’s Return: An Interview with Koji Enokido on Shinji Somai
Ed McCarry interviews Koji Enokido, a close collaborator of Shinji Somai, prior to the theatrical release of Typhoon Club.
Deciphering Death: An Interview with Kateryna Gornostai
by Sofie Topi The Sarajevo Film Festival has built a tradition of picking up strong upcoming voices from South-East Europe and providing a solid network for promising talents […]
Tokyo Melody: An Interview with Elizabeth Lennard
by Nel Dahl A rare 16mm print of Elizabeth Lennard’s Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto (1984) has been unearthed from the filmmaker’s basement for a sold-out […]
Dancing Towards Oblivion – The Cinema of Teo Hernández
“I was thinking about the movement of my films that seem to shake in a dream linked to the movements of oblivion: it is an agitated, hallucinated movement, a relentless swing… The shaken film emerges from these bruises: from a confrontation between the filmmaker and oblivion. The theme of my films is oblivion, which is why it is inexpressible.” – Teo Hernández
Naked as the Silence Between Words: On Maryam Tafakory’s ‘Nazarbazi’
Playing with a film history fraught with codes and tensions, Tafakory presents techniques that both conceal and illuminate, prohibit and point towards the forbidden in the same gesture. It is within this strange tension that the erotic emerges.
MédeCiné: A Profile of François Crémieux
A look at the ways a man of medicine has intersected with cinema history, from starring in Chris Marker’s ‘Blue Helmet’ (1995) to coordinating with Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel to grant them access to the hospitals where ‘De Humani Corporis Fabrica’ (2022) was filmed.