2021: the first year of a new kind of cinema? the editors January 2021 Editorial Welcome to this year’s first issue of Senses of Cinema. Who could have imagined that a mere twelve months after we last published a World Poll the planet would be a very different place. The COVID-19 pandemic w...
World Poll 2020 – Introduction Fiona Villella January 2021 World Poll With over 100 entries from cinephiles, academics, critics, programmers, and filmmakers across the globe, this year’s Senses of Cinema World Poll is a handy barometer for viewing habits and attitudes in a time o...
World Poll 2020 – Part 1 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Arta Barzanji Raphaël Bassan Sean Bell Malik Berkati Lukas Brasiskis Samuel Bréan Samantha Broadhead Michael Bro...
World Poll 2020 – Part 2 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Nicolás Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Jeremy Chamberlin Allison Chhorn Ian Christie Emily Collins Jordan Cronk Adrian Danks Dustin Dasig Henri de Corin...
World Poll 2020 – Part 3 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Gerónimo Elortegui Ted Fendt Christine Folch-Sathiah Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Simon Foster Sachin Gandhi Flora Georgiou Sean Gilman Antony Ginnane Leonardo Goi Fr...
World Poll 2020 – Part 4 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Parviz Jahed Tara Judah Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Dominique Kobler Rainer Knepperges Jan Křipač Jay Kuehner Eugenia Lai Marc Lauria Elaine Lennon Thomas Logoreci Jennif...
World Poll 2020 – Part 5 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Josh B Mabe Ioannis Makris Randy Malamud Bob Manning Miguel Marías Jamie Mendonça Douglas Messerli Jack McCulloch Jane Mills Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Andy Motz Marcel Mulle...
World Poll 2020 – Part 6 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Peter Nagels Walter Neto Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Alison O'Daniel Darragh O'Donoghue Andreea Pătru Antoni Peris Andréa Picard Milan Pribisic Catherine Putman Bérénice Reynau...
World Poll 2020 – Part 7 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Dan Sallitt Jack Sargeant Mark Seman Sarah Scales Andrea Schmidt Howard Schumann Pummy Sharma Christopher Sikich Valerie Soe Mark Spratt Madalina Stefan Brad Stevens Iván Suáre...
World Poll 2020 – Part 8 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 8: Josh Timmermann Jon Towlson Tomas Trussow Koen Van Daele Nicholas de Villiers Peter Verstraten Fiona Villella Mark William Watkins Jason Philip Wierzba Barbara Wurm Neil Young ...
“Sometimes it is easier to forget.” – A Conversation with Dieudo Hamadi Wilfred Okiche January 2021 Interviews Interview translated from French by Hélène Ballis For six deadly days in June 2000, armed forces from Rwanda and Uganda clashed on the streets of K...
The Violence of Privacy: A Conversation with Kazuo Hara Łukasz Mańkowski January 2021 Interviews After riding onto the film festival circuit with the Japanese New Wave, Kazuo Hara has established himself as a key figure in Japanese non-fiction cin...
A Mirror of the Ever-Changing Cinematic Landscape: the Eclectic Oeuvre of James Scott Sofie Cato Maas January 2021 Interviews When viewed in retrospect, the vast and versatile oeuvre of British director James Scott (b. 1941), the son of the famous abstract painter William Sco...
Matthew Victor Pastor – An Interview Fiona Villella January 2021 Interviews Melbourne-based, independent filmmaker Matthew Victor Pastor has been making films for over ten years. His prolific output so far includes four mini-f...
Dreaming of the Mountains: The 9th Dharamshala International Film Festival Sucheta Chakraborty January 2021 Festival Reports In March of 2020, around the time India went into a nationwide lockdown in response to the rise in COVID-19 cases, the Dharamshala International Film ...
Ghost Cities: The 58th Viennale Leonardo Goi January 2021 Festival Reports Legally speaking, I wasn’t sure if the trip would amount to trouble. I’d read the news, and made a few calls, and checked online. The website of the I...
Queer and Australian Features at the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival Stuart Richards January 2021 Festival Reports Held primarily at Palace Nova in the CBD’s Eastend, the Adelaide Film Festival was one of only a few festivals in Australia that were able to hold in-...
Korean Cinema’s Self-Portrait: The 25th Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond January 2021 Festival Reports The 25th Busan International Film Festival was originally scheduled to take place in early October, as usual, with a full lineup and screenings, albei...
Live Through This: The 2020 Adelaide Film Festival Saige Walton January 2021 Festival Reports In a year marked by apocalyptic imagery and an eerie sense of the science-fictional, the Adelaide Film Festival’s decision to open its socially distan...
“Sense of Place”: The 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival Kohei Usuda January 2021 Festival Reports The Tokyo International Film Festival commenced on October 31 under the most unusual of circumstances, in the backdrop of a deadly pandemic that upend...
The 57th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival: Enclave Amidst the Chaos? Maja Korbecka January 2021 Festival Reports Taiwan is one of the few countries that managed to suppress the spread of COVID-19 very early on, drawing from the traumatic experience of the early 2...
Two or Three Things Tom Knew About: In Memoriam Tom O’Regan (1956-2020) Ben Goldsmith January 2021 Obituary Tom O’Regan, much loved scholar and author of the ground-breaking book Australian National Cinema, died in July 2020 after a short illness. Tom made e...
Revising a Concept: Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, by Jonathan Walley Holly Willis January 2021 Book Reviews “Expanded cinema” as a term is invitingly grandiose, connoting expansion, breadth, inclusivity, even possibility. Something bigger. Something better. ...
When Everything Seemed Possible: London’s Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde by David Curtis Wheeler Winston Dixon January 2021 Book Reviews In the 1960s, the experimental cinema scene was exploding on a world wide basis. In the era before digital technology, cellphones and email, film was ...
“Memories Are Made of This”: Juliane Lorenz and Lothar Schirmer’s R.W. Fassbinder: Film Stills, 1966-1982 Eric Gudas January 2021 Book Reviews Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who would have turned 75 this past May, used the frames of the movie and television screen to create a pervasive sense of en...
Beneath the Tuxedo Elegance: Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend, by Mark Glancy Tom Ryan January 2021 Book Reviews Film stars are like mirages: although we can see them, we know that they’re not really what they appear to be. They play characters born of scripts, b...
Anarchist Cinema: A Dream of Resistance: The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki by Stephen Prince Karthick Ram Manoharan January 2021 Book Reviews To the rest of the world, Japanese cinema is mostly identified with three big names – Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi. For Japanese c...
