Murmur (Heather Young, 2019)
Debut films are often tricky melanges of shopworn cliches and the unique ideas that made the artist wan...
2019-09-15 20:59:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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Ghost Strata (Ben Rivers, 2019)
Although Rivers is getting most of his festival exposure this year with Krabi, 2562, the featu...
2019-09-14 02:01:37 +0000 UTC View PostLetter to the Editor (Alan Berliner, 2019)
In his characteristic essay-film way, Berliner uses a framing device -- his personal relationship to th...
2019-09-13 21:53:26 +0000 UTC View PostJordan River Anderson, The Messenger (Alanis Obomsawin, 2019)
For all my dedication to Canadian cinema, this is the first time I have watched a documentary by Obomsa...
2019-09-13 01:21:58 +0000 UTC View PostWe Still Have to Close Our Eyes (John Torres, 2019)
Among the various directors of the Filipino New Wave, John Torres (Todo todo teros, Lukas ...
2019-09-07 00:45:41 +0000 UTC View PostRemembrance: A Portrait Study (Edward Owens, 1967)
The films of 60s experimentalist Edward Owens, which were rediscovered and restored not too long ago, p...
2019-09-07 00:18:08 +0000 UTC View PostBook of Hours (Annie McDonell, 2019)
A brief film composed of gentle, quotidian gestures, Book of Hours is elegant in its subtlety....
2019-09-06 23:56:03 +0000 UTC View PostWho's Afraid of Ideology? (Marwa Arsanios, 2019)
Beginning with a woman thumbing through a notebook of pressed plants, detailing the ailments that can b...
2019-09-06 22:49:58 +0000 UTC View PostHrvoji, Look at You From the Tower (Ryan Ferko, 2019)
Ryan Ferko has presented a number of films in festivals past, although those previous entries have been...
2019-09-06 17:47:40 +0000 UTC View PostSecond Generation (Miryam Charles, 2019)
A film that hints at a narrative but is presented as an assemblage of fragments, Second Generation<...
2019-09-06 05:07:30 +0000 UTC View PostTranscript (Erica Sheu, 2019)
I had the good fortune to first come across Erica Sheu's Transcript back in March when I was p...
2019-09-05 23:25:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe Bite (Pedro Neves Marques, 2019)
Another form of tropical malady has taken hold in Sao Paolo, and it's up to a group of renegade entomol...
2019-09-05 07:58:21 +0000 UTC View PostSaF05 (Charlotte Prodger, 2019)
SaF05, the latest video work by Turner Prize winner Charlotte Prodger, could perhaps be consid...
2019-09-05 03:36:40 +0000 UTC View PostSun Rave (Roy Samaha, 2019)
Roy Samaha's Sun Rave is a complex, knotty little film that, like the espionage agents describ...
2019-09-04 18:57:25 +0000 UTC View PostSlow Volumes (Mike Gibisser, 2019)
A bit of domestic abstraction, Slow Volumes employs a 35mm camera at the center axis of both a...
2019-09-04 18:29:42 +0000 UTC View PostBlack Sun (Maureen Fazendiero, 2019)
Taking as its ostensible topic the recent partial solar eclipse, Fazendiero’s film is a meditation on...
2019-09-02 05:38:32 +0000 UTC View PostThose That, at a Distance, Resemble Another (Jessica Sarah Rinland, 2019)
For the Viennale catalog, I wrote the following:
Not all reproductions are mechanical, even in ou...
2019-09-01 23:46:30 +0000 UTC View PostSan Vittore (Yuri Ancarani, 2019)
It is easy (if nonetheless necessary) to criticize power in its most heinous manifestations. If we cons...
2019-08-30 04:44:22 +0000 UTC View PostThis Action Lies (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, 2018)
Commissioned last year by a Swiss gallery but world premiering only now, Kienitz Wilkins' latest featur...
2019-08-30 00:06:22 +0000 UTC View PostCircumplector (Gastón Solnicki, 2019)
In Latin, circumplector means that which is all-encompassing. True to form, Argentinian experi...
2019-08-29 23:39:41 +0000 UTC View PostCézanne (Luke Fowler, 2019)
Live from Aix-en-Provence comes an unusual new film from Luke Fowler. Although his work tends to be dis...
2019-08-29 23:34:41 +0000 UTC View PostBilly (Zachary Epcar, 2019)
Billy is a talkie.
Epcar is one of the most interesting among the current crop of younge...
2019-08-26 05:09:26 +0000 UTC View PostHeavy Metal Detox (Josef Dabernig, 2019)
In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the intersection of experimental cinema and ho...
2019-08-25 22:22:34 +0000 UTC View PostE-Ticket (Simon Liu, 2019)
Simon Liu, who grew up between Hong Kong and the U.K. and is now based in New York City, has a distinct...
2019-08-25 05:22:18 +0000 UTC View PostAmusement Ride (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2019)
Q: What's a 'structural film'?
A: That's easy! Everybody knows what a structural fil...
2019-08-24 05:57:32 +0000 UTC View Post(tourism studies) (Joshua Gen Solondz, 2019)
Joshua Gen Solondz consistently makes some of the most unusual films around. Part of this has to do wit...
2019-08-24 04:06:05 +0000 UTC View PostLow Tide (Eva Kolcze, 2019)
Some films are small, intimate gestures that simply take stock of the world around us, using sound and ...
2019-08-24 00:42:36 +0000 UTC View PostGeometric Becomings 2 (Manuel DeLanda, 2019)
Manuel DeLanda is a truly odd case. In the late 1970s and throughout the 80s, he was kind of an enf...
2019-08-21 05:20:25 +0000 UTC View PostA Topography of Memory (Burak Çevik, 2019)
The relative clarity of the image above is a bit deceptive. If you actually watch Burak Çevik's new me...
2019-08-21 04:36:52 +0000 UTC View PostAaaaaaaand we're back!
Sorry for the week-long absence. It was (is) the beginning of classes, Matt is starting a new school, a...
2019-08-21 04:12:44 +0000 UTC View Post