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Kris Theorin is lead Animation Director at Something's Awry, a Philadelphia animation studio that specializes in short CG works for brands and other clients. Theorin, self-taught, began animating as a child in ...

In what is perhaps the most disturbing and moving part of Dubina dva (Depth Two, Ognjen Glavonić, 2016), a female voice narrates the events of late March 1999 in the village of Suva Reka in Kosovo, a province t...

Yugoslavia was dismantled three decades ago after a series of deadly armed conflicts that encompassed all republics of the former state. Yet the question of the Yugoslav wars’ representation in contemporary doc...

b. 2 August, 1939, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A d. 30 August, 2015, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A 'The family is the best microcosm to work with…’ - Wes Craven Introduction Few directors have garnered such pola...

The African Desperate (Martine Syms, 2022) captures the vital, painful moments of transition in the life of an MFA student on the eve of her graduation. Taking an art world lens to the coming-of-age genre, the ...

Almost three years into the pandemic, online festival screenings have become a new norm, and while they meet our needs to catch up with new productions, they certainly cannot replicate the shared experiences of...

Vitalina Varela (2019) is the seventh feature film by the Portuguese director Pedro Costa. It tells the true story of a woman from Cape Verde who travels to Lisbon to attend the funeral of her estranged husband...

Independent American cinema is defined by the exigencies of its fundraising. In the shadow of the world’s largest entertainment industry – whose success is dependent on broad commercial appeal and consolidative...

b. March, 18, 1933, London “I'll always be around because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.” – Michael Caine Sir Michael Caine, one of the most durable act...

A study of three profiled filmmakers at the recently concluded, 68th edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and the distinct strategies employed by them to install resonances and intimacie...

This year’s 23rd edition of the Jeonju International Film Festival returned to full capacity for the first time since 2019, following a 2020 cancellation and a reduced capacity/hybrid version in 2021. Its sloga...

b. 14 November, 1932, Columbus, Ohio, USA d. 18 September, 1989, New York, New York, USA Artists who choose to pursue counter-paradigmatic work often do so at great personal costs to themselves, their familie...

“There is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.” – Douglas Sirk  Shockproof (Douglas Sirk, 1949) has always be...

Billy Wilder in the ‘30s In 1938, Billy Wilder was 32 years old and had been in America for five years. Born to a family of Polish Jews in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Wilder worked as a journalist before maki...

Now 91 years old, Jean-Luc Godard is regarded as one of the key pioneers of the French New Wave, a revolutionary movement in cinema. While the landmark works of the nouvelle vague date back to the late 1950s an...

Is an indistinct photograph a picture of a person at all? Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn’t the indistinct one often exactly what we need? – Ludwig Wittge...

I am most desperate when the shooting is going well. I don’t get anxious when the shooting is not going well, because…it is precisely when I know I am looking for something I can’t put in words clearly, somethi...

Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? - George Herbert, Jordan (I), c. 1633 In connection with its recent (Apr 21-Oct 31, 2021) one-person show of the wo...

As a result of institutional support, independent filmmaking in Southeast Asia is flourishing. Thailand has grown into a creative hub – production companies such as Electric Eel Films help realise the ideals of...

Having gained attention on the film festival circuit with his essayistic found-footage retelling of the history of West Germany’s Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) in Une jeunesse allemande (A German Youth, 2015, the F...

Vitalina Varela (2019) is the seventh feature film by the Portuguese director Pedro Costa. It tells the true story of a woman from Cape Verde who travels to Lisbon to attend the funeral of her estranged husband...

David Cox’s innovative engagement with moving image technology extends over numerous iterations, spanning analogue formats 16mm, 35mm and Super 8 to a creative engagement with gaming to 360 degree immersive pro...

In January 1982, a strange book was brought out by the German publisher Zweitausendeins. The title: France tour détour deux enfants / Frankreich Weg Umweg Zwei Kinder. It is an idiosyncratic adaptation of Jean-...

“With all of their eyes, animals behold openness.” – Rainer Maria Rilke, The Eight Duino Elegy (trans. Alfred Corn) “The meaning of the dog is the dog.” – Andrei Tarkovski In the general excitement over...

How does it feel to return to the cinema? I asked myself this question as my plane taxied on the runway at Nice airport one fine July morning, the shimmering waters of the Mediterranean to my right, the hilly l...

When I think about contemporary American cinema there are things to be thankful for and, as with cell phone addiction and social media mania, a good deal to lament. Anyone can be a video filmmaker and almost ev...

Writer-director Han Shuai’s Summer Blur, the winner of the Grand Prix for Best Film in the Kplus competition at the 2021 Berlinale, is a mesmerising take on film noir. Its codes and conventions are used to expl...

In the midst of the present devastating economic and social planetary pandemic, the Collectif Jeune Cinéma (CJC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary of existence. Founded by Marcel Mazé (1940-2012) and some fri...

b. 14 May, 1944, Modesto, California, USA The place to start with George Lucas, director, is at the beginning. Aged 23, the then-USC film student won a scholarship from Columbia to hang out on the set of Mac...

Few are so beholden to normalcy as the provocateur. Whether satirically or advantageously, the transgressor fanatically attests to the strength of a moral system; tracing its limitations, feigning straining at ...

Molly Haskell describes La Vérité (The Truth, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2019) as “an anxious and lyrical family drama,” noting how it presents “the way in which families construct their mythologies, often at variance ...

Translated from Spanish by Gabriela Arenas  1. Mid-March. After sharing a few days of joyful cinephilia in the city of Córdoba with friends from all over the world, quarantine restrictions are declared for th...

T’was the translucent-blue tongues of the glaciers licking the salty sea… yes, at the End of the World. That’s what they call Tierra del Fuego, at the tip of Argentina.  It might as well be the edge of that fla...

AFI FEST Presented by Audi Two Invisible Wars Ensconced in the mountains of the Southern Caucasus, a disputed breakaway enclave within Azerbaijan, the small republic of Artsakh (formerly Nagorno-Karabakh) is...

She charges space, she rakes and ruffles her cropped and bleached hair, her dark eyes narrow as her thought uncoils with the lasso of smoke from her cigarette, and she moves, lean and feline-slinky in her riot ...

Basil Dearden’s 1961 film, Victim, represents a significant moment in British film history. Released into a world where sex between adult men in the United Kingdom was a heavily policed crime, it is the first B...