We Learn by Making: A Conversation with Alexandra Cuesta Andrew Northrop October 2022 Interviews The focus of a retrospective during the 2022 edition of the Open City Documentary Festival in London, Alexandra Cuesta’s films use established canons as departure points for more subjective and personal explora...
Budapest Classics Film Marathon Andrew Northrop October 2022 Festival Reports The Budapest Classics Film Marathon is a growing festival run by Hungary’s National Film Institute (NFI), drawing upon the film archive’s restoration efforts and its understanding of not only Hungarian film his...
Sunken Film: Bill Morrison Talks The Village Detective: a song cycle Andrew Northrop July 2021 Interviews The cover of the October 2019 issue of FIAF’s Journal of Film Preservation sees Erlendur Sveinsson of the National Film Archive of Iceland standing over a long path of film evenly distributed over newspaper she...
Making Visible: The 2021 Cinéma du Réel Andrew Northrop May 2021 Festival Reports An immediate glance at the International Selection of 2021’s Cinéma du Réel identifies familiar films from IDFA, International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Berlinale’s recent editions. The festival offers a ...
“Home, far away from Home”: Truong Minh Quý on The Tree House Andrew Northrop April 2020 Conversations with Filmmakers Across the Globe In Vietnam, the Jarai people engage in a spiritual practice around tomb houses – small huts containing mementos from deceased community members. They form the basis for a formal experiment in Truong Minh Quý’s ...
Haptically Revisiting Agnès Varda’s Jacquot de Nantes Andrew Northrop December 2017 Feature Articles Drawing on Agnès Varda’s practice of engaging characters dialectically with their environments, I intend to explore how Jacquot de Nantes (1991) and The Gleaners & I (2000) have codified skin as a phenomeno...
