Criminals Against Decoration: Modernism as a Heist Andy Reischling October 2020 Feature Articles The first thing you see in Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1966 film, Le Samouraï, is an apartment. It’s a bare studio, undecorated and almost wholly bereft of...
The New-Ark: trying to disavow anti-blackness Andrew Brooks October 2020 Feature Articles i: ceaseless calls for impossible devotions But my tendency, body and mind, is to make it. To get there, from anywhere, going wherever, always. By ...
Claustrophobia and Intimacy in Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth and Her Smell Zoë Almeida Goodall October 2020 Feature Articles Michelle: “Small world.” Catherine: “Increasingly.” – Queen of Earth Cinema can produce, through a variety of techniques, a sense of claustrophobia...
What’s in a Cone? Barbara Loden’s Wanda Between Weakness and Resilience Luise Moerke October 2020 Feature Articles In the middle of an empty parking lot, a lonely snack stall promises roadside indulgence. Its red and white marquee speaks of sunnier days, seaside va...
Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea Salvador Carrasco October 2020 Feature Articles Recently I saw what will most likely be my favourite film of the past year and foreseeable future, especially in light of the pandemic: The Painted Bi...
Thresholds of Work and Non-Work in Tulapop Saenjaroen’s People on Sunday Steffanie Ling October 2020 Feature Articles Last January, I was seeking a joyful film at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. When I asked around, one recommended a film about a woman who ...
Missing links: exploring traces of Kubrick’s ‘unknown’ early works Mick Broderick James Fenwick and Joy McEntee October 2020 Feature Articles Previously unseen materials donated by the Stanley Kubrick estate to the London University of the Arts Special Collections Archive sheds new light on ...
Segregation and Film Pedagogy: Aboriginal Kids Nullah and Dujuan Laleen Jayamanne October 2020 Feature Articles “…I am dispended”, says Dujuan Hoosan, the Arrente/Garrwa little Aboriginal boy at the centre of the documentary, In My Blood it Runs (2020). “… suspe...
Countering Dominant Cinema: Temporality in Meek’s Cutoff Catherine Putman October 2020 Feature Articles Living in a time and place that moves faster than ever; ultimately, we end up with less. Lutz Koepnick suggests that subsequently we experience less s...
Unearthing a Forgotten Television Work by Jean-Luc Godard Michael Witt July 2020 Feature Articles In 2016 I was conducting research for an article about a forgotten experimental montage film that Jean-Luc Godard had created and screened at the Rott...
Recollections of Coproducing Two Videos by Jean-Luc Godard for Prime-Time on Télévision Suisse Romande: Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie)) (1981) and Scénario du film Passion (1982) Raymond Vouillamoz July 2020 Feature Articles Spécial Cinéma Spécial Cinéma was a weekly programme on Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR, public broadcaster in French-speaking Switzerland). First bro...
Soul-Surviving: Blinded by the Light Bill Mousoulis July 2020 Feature Articles Can a “feel-good” mainstream film ever be considered a great film? I think it can, but I don’t think Blinded by the Light (Gurinder Chadha, 2019) quit...
