Happy International Women’s Day!
Ann Hui
“Hui is too versatile and too prolific to be pinned down, labeled, or marketed but too prominent to be “discovered.””
Essay: A Time For Many Words – Canon Formation, National Unity and ‘The Travelling Players’
Invariably, any appraisal of Theodoros Angelopoulos’ 1975 film The Travelling Players makes note of its length—230 minutes, to be precise—as well as it’s ostentatious style—it consists of just 80 shots, almost all of which are sequence shots and hardly any are tighter than a medium close-up.
Essay: Staying Safe Online
From the early 1990s onwards, film and television were trying their best to keep pace with the emergence of the world wide web, its growing popularity beginning to be attached at the hip with its democratization.
On Bodies: ‘The House Is Black’ and the Politics of Corporeal Representation(s)
In his essay “The Queen of Sheba,”1 Iranian critic Hesam Amiri recounts the reactions that The House Is Black (1963) received from reviewers upon its release. The common thread among all of the predominantly negative reviews was that the film was deemed “too feminine” or (contradicting the prior claim) that it was not actually directed by Forough Farrokhzad, but by her partner, the prominent filmmaker and writer Ebrahim Golestan…