Rites of Passage, Fluidity and Metamorphoses: The Imagery of Education in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Innocence, Evolution and Earwig Anton Bitel August 2022 The Natural Models of Lucile Hadžihalilović Coming of age is often conceptualised in religious terms as a rite of passage and an initiation into adulthood, - and so Lucile Hadžihalilović's films figure themselves as ritualised mysteries, with children at...
Gender Divide in Diptych: Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy Anton Bitel July 2019 The Analogues of Peter Strickland The Berberian Sound Studio – a labyrinthine post-production complex in 1970s Italy to which all the events of Berberian Sound Studio are restricted – is a male world, and Peter Strickland's film traces the conf...
The Gender(s) of Genre in Cattet and Forzani’s Ambisexual Cinema Anton Bitel June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani The strange cinematic experiments of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani grow over the graves of departed genres. Their shorts and their first two features are loving pastiches of giallo, that lurid Italian detecti...
Fragments of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani Anton Bitel June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani On 22 February 2018, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's Let the Corpses Tan was screened at Ciné Lumière in London's Institut Français Royaume-Uni, with the writer/directors in attendance. The following fragment...
Alice in the Underworld: The Dark Märchen Show!! (Mari Terashima, 2009) Anton Bitel March 2018 Alice in Wonderland In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871), young Alice goes on a wide-eyed odyssey through the psychic flotsam and jetsam of nineteenth-century ...
Six Men Getting Sick (David Lynch, 1967) Anton Bitel March 2017 Love Letters: 1967 (H)e(r)metic Art Ad Nauseam: David Lynch's Six Men Getting Sick (1967) Part of our makeup as social animals is that certain of our activities, when visualised, tend to create a mirror effect in the viewer. Se...
