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Author Jay Kuehner

Jay Kuehner

Jay Kuehner is a free-lance film critic, instructor, and curator based in Seattle who has contributed to Cinema Scope magazine, Film Comment, and Fandor, and is programmer of Veracity: New Documentary Cinema at Northwest Film Forum.

Punto de Vista 2017

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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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, ...
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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...

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