They Do Indeed Exist: Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit, by Khadijeh Habashneh Henri de Corinth August 2024 Book Reviews “…photography is as important to us as fighting because it disseminates our image to the world.” - Abu Jihad The Palestine Film Unit was a filmmaking collective that operated largely out of Lebanon and Jor...
Hadžihalilović’s Metaphysical Pictures Henri de Corinth August 2022 The Natural Models of Lucile Hadžihalilović Lucile Hadžihalilović’s cinema can be understood in terms of the artistic notions of the pittura metafisica – the “metaphysical picture,” coined by painter Giorgio de Chirico in the 1910s. Taken at face value, ...
Antiworld, Imminence and the Pastoral in Katalin Varga Henri de Corinth July 2019 The Analogues of Peter Strickland While the films of Peter Strickland are celebrated for their emulation of midcentury genre cinema, much of their structure – being their oscillation between narrative and abstraction – arguably has its origins ...