Illusionary Mirror: An Interview with Kumar Shahani Arindam Sen November 2024 Interviews This conversation took place at Kumar Shahani’s residence in Kolkata on a balmy afternoon in January 2024. Shahani was visibly ailing but the mind fecund as ever. The backdrop of the meeting was a chance encoun...
Stardust chronicle, a report from the 69th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Arindam Sen August 2023 Festival Reports To begin with, a brief note on the possibilities or impossibilities of film criticism within the ambit of festival reports. I have not written one in over half a decade and, while I continue to skim through a f...
After Structural Film: The Conceptual films of Morgan Fisher Arindam Sen January 2023 Feature Articles Two programs of Morgan Fisher’s films, presented during the recently concluded 68th edition of the Oberhausen short film festival, occasioned the chance to reflect upon the important position of Fisher within t...
Slow Fireworks: The Films of Amy Halpern Arindam Sen January 2023 Interviews Over a career that spanned nearly five decades, Amy Halpern made non-narrative films of all kinds – formal, poetic, playful, joyous, political and personal. The films can be identified as first person cinema, a...