Riders on the Storm: The 15th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Ioannis Mookas July 2004 Festival Reports Uppermost on everyone's agenda right now, in New York as in the rest of the U.S., is purging our government of the malignancy that has subsumed it...
Taking Off: The 47th San Francisco International Film Festival Brian Darr July 2004 Festival Reports An international film festival can be likened to an airplane trip around the world, only instead of stopping to get out of the cabin and sightsee,...
Social Engagement: The 21st St Kilda Film Festival Kyle Weise July 2004 Festival Reports Most immediately apparent in the selection of short films that I attended at this year's St Kilda Film Festival was the sombre, and even tragic, t...
A Certain Kind of Semiological Infinity and Excess: The 51st Sydney Film Festival Saul Symonds July 2004 Festival Reports Film has always involved a certain materiality and a certain immateriality, a certain technology and a certain semiology. And a film festival refl...
Dying at a Film Festival: The 6th Udine Far East Film Festival Brandon Wee July 2004 Festival Reports Every year since 1999, a festival in a northern Italian town has played host to a week's worth of the most popular films from East Asia. Although ...
Readjusting Perspective: The 57th Cannes Film Festival Christoph Huber July 2004 Festival Reports There is general consensus that the 2004 Cannes Film Festival represented a return to form after last year's rather miserable outing (although it ...
For the Love of Cinema: The 28th Hong Kong International Film Festival Janice Tong July 2004 Festival Reports It is recorded in an article titled “La vie utile des vues cinématographiques” in La Nature in 1897 that the effective life-span of a frame of fil...
Been Underground So Long, It Looks Like Up to Me: New York Underground Film Festival 2004 Ioannis Mookas April 2004 Festival Reports Over seven changeling days in March, during which the bombings of four commuter trains in Madrid left hundreds dead or wounded and sealed the elec...
The Movies that Make Up our Minds: Ken Jacobs and the Avant-Garde at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2004 Genevieve Yue April 2004 Festival Reports Ken Jacobs was feeling uneasy. In the sleek Pathé theatre he stood a few feet from the microphone and looked up at the full audience before him, h...
This Little Piggy Went to Market: Slamdance X Film Festival Carloss James Chamberlin April 2004 Festival Reports PARK CITY – An overwarmed room somewhere in the Sodom of the Wasatch. People are looking at me with dog-eyes. They flit them down to my press-pass...
Dancing about Architecture: Sundance Film Festival 2004 Bérénice Reynaud April 2004 Festival Reports There is a seductive cliche that runs through “cultural circles”: writing about dance makes about as much sense as dancing about architecture. Wha...
Letter From Krungthep: Bangkok International Film Festival 2004 Brandon Wee April 2004 Festival Reports I'm thinking of quitting doing film festival reports because I remain sceptical that this format can produce anything novel. I get bored with, tir...
A Cinematic Campus: Berlinale 2004 Kevin Lee April 2004 Festival Reports Festival reports typically give the impression that their writers surveyed the proceedings from a high chair – no matter how intelligent the obser...
Report from the AFI Film Festival: Bruno The Dog and Other Dreamers Bérénice Reynaud February 2004 Festival Reports I might have been the only accredited journalist who did not see a single American film at the latest American Film Institute (AFI) Film Festival ...
The People Are Missing: The 25th Taipei Golden Horse International Film Festival (and 40th Golden Horse Awards) Charles Leary February 2004 Festival Reports Sometimes the third world film-maker finds himself before an illiterate public, swamped by American, Egyptian or Indian serials, and karate films, a...
What the Eye Sees: A Report on the International Experimental Cinema Exposition Genevieve Yue February 2004 Festival Reports 14-16 November, 2003 It was the last night of the Festival, and after an impressive program of Gregory Markopoulos films and Jean Genet's rare ...
World and Experimental Cinema at the 47th London Film Festival George Clark February 2004 Festival Reports 22 October - 6 November The 47th London Film Festival came on strong this year. It commenced two weeks earlier than in previous years. Now it r...
After the Storm – the 8th Pusan International Film Festival Jungyeob Ji December 2003 Festival Reports 2003 wasn't a particularly good year for Korea, or Pusan, the port city located at the southern most tip of South Korea. A strong-arm hurricane “M...
Rescuing the Image: The 5th Ibero-American Film Festival, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia David M. J. Wood December 2003 Festival Reports If making a Latin American feature film is difficult these days, merely screening one in Bolivia requires a small miracle. With much of the region...
The Curator and the Critic at Vancouver 2003 – A Report Bérénice Reynaud December 2003 Festival Reports Lasting a solid two-week stretch (September 25 – October 10), the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) has come to play an increasingly co...
My Own Private Toronto: The 2003 Toronto Film Festival Dan Sallitt December 2003 Festival Reports The gap between the public face of the Toronto Film Festival and the experience of festival-goers continues to widen. Improbably enough, mild-mann...
New York Film Festival 2003 – A Report Jared Rapfogel December 2003 Festival Reports Please note: discussions of individual films reveal plot details. Year after year I find myself frustrated by the New York Film Festival's extr...
Report on the 22nd Pordenone Silent Film Festival Jay Weissberg December 2003 Festival Reports What astonishes at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival (Le Giornate del Cinema Muto), which takes place annually in northern Italy, is not just the...
Leeds International Film Festival, 2003 Benjamin Halligan December 2003 Festival Reports The 11 days of the 17th Leeds International Film Festival delivered a diverse and challenging programme. Leeds has always been adventurous and ico...
The 4th Melbourne Underground Film Festival – A Report Albert Fung October 2003 Festival Reports It's been over three months since the Melbourne Underground Film Festival ended and the first thing that enters my mind about this year's edition ...
Zanzibar International Film Festival 2003 J. David Slocum October 2003 Festival Reports Zanzibar is an island off the coast of east Africa that, with mainland Tanganyika, formed the United Republic of Tanzania in 1964. For centuries, ...
The Establishment of Form – A Report on the 57th Edinburgh International Film Festival George Clark October 2003 Festival Reports Now in its 57th year, the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is the longest running film festival in the UK. It occupies a firm place am...
A Report on the 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival Michelle Carey October 2003 Festival Reports Unlike 52 years ago, when the Melbourne International Film Festival first began, the moving image today has become so decentralised and all pervas...
MIAF at the Crossroads: A Report on the 2003 Melbourne International Animation Festival Daniel Yencken July 2003 Festival Reports As the 2003 Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF)'s trailer started rolling on opening night, I experienced a wave of nostalgia for th...
You’re Smiling! You’re Winning! Have You Considered CineVegas? Rhiannon Aarons July 2003 Festival Reports http://www.cinevegas.com/ June 13-21, 2003 Acting as an extension of Las Vegas itself, the primary goal of the CineVegas Film Festival in the ...
Cannes 2003 Gerald Peary July 2003 Festival Reports This article was originally published in the Boston Phoenix, June 6 2003. Eyes roll back home in Boston when I plead my case: that being a jour...
Chocolate Box to Cracker Bag: The 2003 St Kilda Film Festival Mark Freeman July 2003 Festival Reports It was a neat piece of synchronicity which gave the opening of the annual St Kilda Film Festival added excitement. Programmed as part of the openi...
Sixteen Flashbacks – The 16th Singapore International Film Festival Brandon Wee July 2003 Festival Reports (17 April - 3 May 2003) 16. The Ending Is The Beginning Is The End In Strain Andromeda The (1992), video artist Anne McGuire re-edits Robert Wis...
From St. Kilda to Kings Cross (Almost): Some Observations on the 2003 Sydney Film Festival Adrian Danks July 2003 Festival Reports The outrage over the Australia-wide banning of Larry Clark's Ken Park (2002) forestalled much of the broader media's critical discussion of the 20...
Cynicism Overruled: The 2003 St Kilda Film Festival Anna Daly July 2003 Festival Reports This is the first time I've seen more than a couple of sessions from the annual St. Kilda short film festival. So when I say that I was surprised ...
Spotlight on the 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival: Festival Wrap-Up Various July 2003 Festival Reports Back to Daily Updates Posted Friday 25 July - Thursday 7 August Posted Saturday 16 August (Festival Wrap-Up) by Michelle Carey Ten favour...
