Author Anton Bitel

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 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...

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...

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 ...

(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...