Cinema Never Dies: Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 Frames and The Ontology of the Digital Image James Slaymaker October 2019 Feature Articles 24 Frames, the final feature from master Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, grew out of an abandoned project the auteur had been developing in conjunction with the Louvre. The plan was to bring a number of ico...
“I Reach Out My Hand and What Do I Feel?”: Thematising Digitisation in Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis James Slaymaker September 2017 Feature Articles By the end of the first decade of the 21st century, it had become abundantly clear that digital methods of cinematography and distribution had eclipsed the analogue in the mainstream cinema industry. Much of th...
Late Capitalist Atrocity Exhibition: Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York James Slaymaker March 2016 Mono No Aware: The Films of Abel Ferrara, 2005-2015 It’s difficult not to detect the influence of Pasolini on Abel Ferrara’s Welcome to New York (2014), and not only due to the fact that Ferrara was reportedly undertaking vast amounts of research for his yet-to-...