A World of Wounds: The 18th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Ioannis Mookas November 2007 Festival Reports 14-28 June 2007 Ascend from the tunnel, and there are the scaffolds: that is New York. Block upon block, scaffolding pens the sidewalks and girds the wreckage. What they call development. Where towers do...
Fires Were Started: An Interview with Noam Gonick Ioannis Mookas July 2005 Conversations with Filmmakers Like fellow Canadian Guy Maddin, Gonick hails from Winnipeg, the city at the heart of Stryker, his visually arresting feature film shot by noted cinematographer Ed Lachman. That and much else about this distinctive film are discussed in depth.
Dead End Kids: The 16th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Ioannis Mookas July 2005 Festival Reports June 9-23, 2005 Around Memorial Day in New York, it’s not unusual to hear cinephiles say they’re excited about the upcoming Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (HRWIFF), and then catch thems...
Midnight at the Oasis: The 9th Cinematexas International Short Film Festival Ioannis Mookas October 2004 Festival Reports From the wide span of the Congress Avenue bridge in Austin, it was possible to mark the autumn equinox this September by gazing up that long avenue at the Texas state capitol building, watching the plum-sta...
Riders on the Storm: The 15th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Ioannis Mookas July 2004 Festival Reports Uppermost on everyone's agenda right now, in New York as in the rest of the U.S., is purging our government of the malignancy that has subsumed it. So at five months and counting to election day, it was wit...
Been Underground So Long, It Looks Like Up to Me: New York Underground Film Festival 2004 Ioannis Mookas April 2004 Festival Reports Over seven changeling days in March, during which the bombings of four commuter trains in Madrid left hundreds dead or wounded and sealed the electoral overthrow of Spain's ruling party a mere three days la...
