Issue 44

A key contributor to France’s experimental film culture, Christian Lebrat, filmmaker and director of the publishing imprint Paris Expérimental, talks about his films and related interests.

Christian Lebrat discusses the early phase of his career, including such works as Film numéro deux, Liminal Minimal and Autoportrait au dispositif.

A translation that first appeared in the French magazine Europe in 2006, in which Raphaël Bassan presents a myriad of stimulating reflections on the history of avant-garde and experimental cinema.

The co-writer and director of the recent Australian independent feature Corroboree discusses his film, and the broader issues of film culture and film funding that impact on lower-budget filmmaking.

Tom Luddy was the principal conduit for almost all of Godard’s forays into the North American film scene. From Godard’s ‘Dziga Vertov’ tours to his association with Francis Coppola’s Zoetrope, Luddy played a crucial role.

Sebastian Manley thoughtfully dissects the interweaving influences and meanings found in the most recent work of this great Czech surrealist animator.

“Brakhage gives us phenomenologies on celluloid.” So argues Alex Cobb as he draws out the affinities between the filmmaker and the philosopher.

Filmmaker Viviane Vagh talks to one of the seminal figures of the French experimental film scene. Filmmaker, critic and cinema historian, Raphaël Bassan speaks about his career, his films and his life long passion for film.

The most influential figure in the history of the ‘New American Cinema’ discusses his past, present and ongoing projects. The interview concludes with Mekas’ strikingly precise and detailed evocation of the historical controversy surrounding Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures.

20-29 April 2007 Udine’s Far East Film Festival remains a gathering place of choice for those truly serious about East and Southeast Asian cine...

8-24 June 2007 By almost any measure, the 2007 Sydney Film Festival has been the best since at least 2004. The range of films was good, even if...

20 March - 4 April 2007 Much of what I saw at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival gave new relevance to Paul Schrader’s 1972 book...

1-11 February 2007 In the year 2000, Hamid Dabashi provided an overview of the state of Iranian cinema. That year, according to Dabashi, herald...

1-4 March 2007 Is there a new wave in documentary filmmaking? Taken as a whole, the level of public engagement with films such as An Inconvenie...

21 February - 4 March 2007 While the holy trinity of contemporary Mexican cinema, Alejandro González Inárritu, Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del...

19-29 April 2007 At Hot Docs this year, two titles about Japanese involvement in World War II made it as official selections. Nanking (2007), c...

b. 5 June 1928, Shipley, Yorkshire, England d. 14 November 1991, Los Angeles Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resourc...

Research into female authorship in the cinema was a neglected area in cinema studies until the 1990s (1). Since then, there has been an increased inte...

Tina Wasserman discusses a treasure trove of illuminating ideas found in this collection of essays by experimental filmmaker and writer Abigail Child.

CLEMENTINE KRUCZYNSKI : You're not a stalker or anything, right? JOEL BARISH : I'm not a stalker. You're the one that talked to me, remember? CLEMEN...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The fu...

With the defiance expected in the greatest of social causes, Polish female filmmakers have insisted for years that they do not make women’s cinema. Th...

In Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre says a grocer who dreams is offensive to the buyer, because such a grocer is not wholly a grocer. Etiquett...

Muriel ou Le temps d’un retour (1963 France/Italy 116 mins) Prod Co: Argos Films/Alpha Productions/Eclair/Films de la Pleiade (Paris)/Dear Film...

I Walked With a Zombie (1943 USA 69 mins) Prod Co: RKO Pictures Prod: Val Lewton Dir: Jacques Tourneur Scr: Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, based on ...

Daisies/Sedmikrásky (1966 Czechoslovakia 74 mins) Prod Co: Filmové Studio Barrandov Prod: Ladislav Fikar, Bohumil Smída Dir: Věra Chytilová Scr...

  The Cremator/Spalovac mrtvol (1968 Czechoslovakia 87 mins) Prod Co: Filmové Studio Barrandov/Sebor Dir: Juraj Herz Scr: Juraj Herz, Ladis...

Cat People (1942 USA 73 mins) Prod Co: RKO Pictures Prod: Val Lewton Dir: Jacques Tourneur Scr: DeWitt Bodeen Phot: Nicholas Musuraca Ed: Mark ...

What Price Glory? (1926 USA 116 minutes) Prod Co: Fox Prod, Dir: Raoul Walsh Scr: James T. O’Donohue, from the play by Maxwell Anderson and Lau...

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders/Valerie a tyden divu (1970 Czechoslovakia 77 mins) Prod Co: Filmové Studio Barrandov Prod: Jirí Becka Dir: Jaro...

The Strawberry Blonde (1941 USA 97 minutes) Prod Co: Warner Bros. Dir: Raoul Walsh Scr: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, based on the play...

Scenes From a Marriage/Scener ur ett äktenskap (1973 Sweden 168 mins) Prod Co: Cinematograph AB Prod: Ingmar Bergman, Lars-Owe Carlberg Dir, Sc...

Queen Kelly (1928 USA 96 mins) Prod Co: Gloria Swanson Pictures Corporation/United Artists Prod: Erich von Stroheim, Joseph P. Kennedy , Gloria...