Rings of Saturn, Gardens of Empire: The 2022 Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra Jay Kuehner May 2022 Festival Reports At Punto de Vista (The International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra) it seems there are no margins, no outliers; that the notion of the marginal has been altered, subsumed, or otherwise composted into its...
Deserted: Notes on J.P. Sniadecki and Lisa Malloy’s Speculative Borderlands Documentary A Shape of Things to Come Jay Kuehner May 2021 Feature Articles It begins with a landscape. The cinematic depictions of the Sonoran desert in El Mar La Mar (2017) and A Shape of Things to Come (2020), both co-directed by J.P. Sniadecki with Joshua Bonnetta and Lisa Malloy r...
Only the World and Everything In It: The 2021 Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra Jay Kuehner April 2021 Festival Reports In its young history Punto de Vista (International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra) has staked out a distinguished identity, owing foremost to a progressive agenda and an experimental ethos. What might be ...
Ars Moriendi, or How To Film a Sculpture: The 11th Punto de Vista Festival Jay Kuehner June 2017 Festival Reports In the tiny village of Alzuza – once Navarran countryside, now a mere suburb of Pamplona – the museum of Basque intellectual and sculptor Jorge Oteiza sits perched with angular incongruity on a hillside, conjoi...
BAFICI 12: In Praise of Anti-Cine! Or, I Come Back Because I Want To Jay Kuehner July 2010 Festival Reports As I flipped through the book Dekalog 3: On Film Festivals (1) on my flight to Argentina, the unofficial testimony for BAFICI – the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente – as paradigmatic am...
Against the Practice of the Mild: The 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival Jay Kuehner July 2010 Festival Reports At a slot in the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival program called Porchlight: True Stories From the Frontiers of International Filmmaking, directors took the stage in variety show style to divulge ...
Bien Sur: The 11th Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente Jay Kuehner September 2009 Festival Reports
Killer Instinct: The 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival Jay Kuehner September 2009 Festival Reports
Recherchez: José Luis Guerín’s In the City of Sylvia Jay Kuehner April 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film En la Ciudad de Sylvia/Dans la ville de Sylvie/In the City of Sylvia (2007 Spain 84 mins) Prod Co: Château-Rouge Productions/Eddie Saeta S.A./Televisió de Catalunya/Televisión Española Prod: Luis Miñarro...
Pellucid Pique: The 27th Vancouver International Film Festival Jay Kuehner February 2009 Festival Reports 25 September – 10 October 2008 “Radishes are genius...” Such are the first words, uttered by a vivacious grandmother reigning over the kitchen at a family reunion, in Aruitemo, Aruitemo (Still Walkin...
Image, Unleashed (Or, Air-Conditioning in the Bamboo Forest): A Dispatch from the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival Jay Kuehner February 2009 Festival Reports 24 April – 4 May 2008 In the State of Cinema Address at the 51st San Francisco Film Festival, delivered annually by a prominent figure ”to address complex issues facing contemporary cinema”, this year...
BAFICI at 10: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: The 10th Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente Jay Kuehner August 2008 Festival Reports 8–20 April 2008 Midway through the 10th edition of the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI), an acrid, ashen fog shrouded the city. “Humo!” cried my cab driver indignantly, ...
On the Occasion of Remembering the Golden Gate: The 49th San Francisco International Film Festival Jay Kuehner November 2006 Festival Reports 20 April – 4 May 2006 “San Francisco’s in a tough position” tells me the editor of a major American film magazine, at a festival reception in honour of Guy Maddin, or Werner Herzog, I can’t remember. His...
