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Author Celluloid Liberation Front

Celluloid Liberation Front

Celluloid Liberation Front is a multi-use(r) name, an "open reputation" informally adopted and shared by a desiring multitude of insurgent cinephiles, transmedia terrorists, aesthetic dynamiters and random deviants. For reasons that remain unknown, the name was borrowed from a collective of anti-imperialist blind filmmakers from the Cayman Islands whose films have rarely been unseen.

Mar del Plata 2016

Mar del Plata Confidential

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March 2017
Festival Reports
to Fidel, until forever... A sense of self-referential irrelevance may assail the consummate festival-goer inhabiting a world of films few outside the festival circuit will ever even hear of. The opposite felt...

Assaulting Wall Street Pour la Beauté du Geste

Celluloid Liberation Front
July 2013
Feature Articles
“I don’t initiate violence, I retaliate.” –Chuck Norris Plot Synopsis (major spoiler alert): Jim (Dominic Purcell) is the kind of working class dude New York used to be inhabited by before his ilk was driven ...

Signals, Symptoms and Seditious Suggestions: The 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam

Celluloid Liberation Front
March 2012
Festival Reports
Understanding how people can be manipulated through emotions, for example, is as useful for those who wish to avoid this as it is for those who wish to practice it. – Sun Tzu in The Art of War The tyranny of f...

Neither Subordinate to the Other: the 10th I Mille Occhi festival

Celluloid Liberation Front
December 2011
Festival Reports
“Representation is a denial of participation” – Muammar Gaddafi in The Green Book Used to the soothing distraction film festivals offer in the form of anal-retentive social events and cultural bulimia, to enc...

Gualtiero Jacopetti (1919-2011): The Carnivorous Eye

Celluloid Liberation Front
October 2011
Feature Articles
Jacopetti’s fame will always be tied to the phenomenal success of Mondo Cane; a ground breaking film in more ways than could have been anticipated at the time.

Auschwitz­–Harlem: Post-Traumatic Economy in The Pawnbroker

Celluloid Liberation Front
June 2011
Feature Articles
In light of Sidney Lumet’s recent passing away, this article pays tribute to his powerful 1964 dramatised study of a post-Holocaust survivor living a life of quite desperation in Harlem.

Creations Beyond the Haunted Lagoon: The 67th Venice Film Festival

Celluloid Liberation Front
December 2010
Festival Reports
As they cheered and hooted, they were far more confident than the film actors on display, who seemed ill at ease when they stepped from their cars, like celebrity criminals ferried to a mass trial by jury at th...

World on a Wire: Reality is Colder than Fiction

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October 2010
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Often overlooked in R.W. Fassbinder’s filmography, his 1973 made for television adaptation of Daniel F. Galouye’s science fiction novel, The Counterfeit World, where “projections resemble reality”, looks more prescient than ever.

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