“A Democracy of Images” John Gianvito in Conversation Thomas Austin March 2018 Feature Articles Slow-paced but urgent, John Gianvito’s incendiary nine-hour diptych For Example, The Philippines is a stunning feat of political filmmaking. Emotionally gripping, historically revelatory, and at times vividly b...
In the Cells of Fortress Europe: An Interview with Marianna Economou, director of The Longest Run Thomas Austin June 2017 Feature Articles Marianna Economou’s observational documentary The Longest Run (2015) tells the story of two teenage refugees, Kurds from Syria and Iraq, who meet in a Greek juvenile prison awaiting trial for people trafficking...
Temporal Vertigo: An Interview with John Akomfrah Thomas Austin July 2016 Feature Articles The pioneering British filmmaker John Akomfrah is co-founder of the Black Audio Film Collective and director of The Nine Muses (2010) and The Stuart Hall Project (2013). The following interview focuses on four ...
