The Realm of the Sensible and the Short Film: The 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Shekhar Deshpande July 2021 Festival Reports The 67th edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen went online for the second successive year, this time with wider ambitions. It expanded the competition program from five to eight sections, ...
The Ontology of Windows and Cinema in the Pandemic: e-flux and International Short Film Festival Oberhausen’s Film Series 2020 Shekhar Deshpande May 2021 Feature Articles WHOEVER leads a solitary life and yet now and then wants to attach himself somewhere….. he will not be able to manage for long without a window looking on to the street. -Franz Kafka If only someone would w...
The Afterlife of War: The 15th Sarajevo Film Festival Shekhar Deshpande December 2009 Festival Reports In many respects the Sarajevo Film Festival is the antithesis of “glamorous” film festivals such as Cannes or Toronto. In a story that was widely circulated, Associated Press highlighted it as a festival that w...