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Author Moritz Pfeifer

Moritz Pfeifer

Moritz Pfeifer studied Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and Linguistics and Art History at the École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales in Paris. He lives in Paris and works as a freelance journalist for French, English and German speaking press, and is the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the East European Film Bulletin (eefb.org).

Leviathan film analysis

Nationalism: On and Off the Screen

Moritz Pfeifer
June 2015
Feature Articles
Feature image: Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014.) For a while it seemed that Cold War cleavages were the last heydays of state approved art consumption. But a European-wide renaissance of nationalism is cur...

Either and Or: On Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life

Moritz Pfeifer
October 2011
Feature Articles
Terrence Malick’s poetic and ambiguous film has for the most part divided critics. Moritz Pfeifer offers his thoughts on a film where choosing sides may be inevitable.

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