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Author Anton Bitel

Anton Bitel

Anton Bitel teaches classical languages part-time at the University of Oxford, but mostly lances free in film journalism. He is at home with horror, the avant-garde and Asian cinema, and contributes regularly to Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, BFI, SciFiNow Magazine, VODzilla.co and BBC World Service’s The Arts Hour. He is a member of the Online Film Critics Society and the London Film Critics' Circle. His blog is ProjectedFigures.com.

Gender Divide in Diptych: Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy

Anton Bitel
July 2019
The Analogues of Peter Strickland
The Berberian Sound Studio – a labyrinthine post-production complex in 1970s Italy to which all the events of Berberian Sound Studio are restricted – is a male world, and Peter Strickland's film traces the conf...
Gender Cattet and Forzani

The Gender(s) of Genre in Cattet and Forzani’s Ambisexual Cinema

Anton Bitel
June 2018
Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani
The strange cinematic experiments of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani grow over the graves of departed genres. Their shorts and their first two features are loving pastiches of giallo, that lurid Italian detecti...
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani interview

Fragments of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani

Anton Bitel
June 2018
Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani
On 22 February 2018, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's Let the Corpses Tan was screened at Ciné Lumière in London's Institut Français Royaume-Uni, with the writer/directors in attendance. The following fragment...
The Dark Märchen Show!! (2009)

Alice in the Underworld: The Dark Märchen Show!! (Mari Terashima, 2009)

Anton Bitel
March 2018
Alice in Wonderland
In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871), young Alice goes on a wide-eyed odyssey through the psychic flotsam and jetsam of nineteenth-century ...
Six Men Getting Sick

Six Men Getting Sick (David Lynch, 1967)

Anton Bitel
March 2017
Love Letters: 1967
(H)e(r)metic Art Ad Nauseam: David Lynch's Six Men Getting Sick (1967)  Part of our makeup as social animals is that certain of our activities, when visualised, tend to create a mirror effect in the viewer. Se...

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