An Interview with Christian Byers Ivan Cerecina November 2025 Interviews “Cinema is death at work.” – Jean Cocteau Around about the time I first saw Christian’s Byer’s new film, Death of an Undertaker (2025), I happened across this quote by Cocteau. Happened across again, I should ...
Engaged Vision: Critical Mass: Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave, by Steven Ungar Ivan Cerecina July 2020 Book Reviews Steven Ungar’s Critical Mass groups together and examines three-and-a-half decades worth of non-fiction filmmaking in France, making a compelling case for the existence of a mid-century tradition of the “social...
