Author Jay Kuehner

I approached the 17th edition of Punto de Vista (International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra) with necessary ambivalence, owing on the one hand to the recently aired conference at the Berlinale Critics’ ...

At Punto de Vista (The International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra) it seems there are no margins, no outliers; that the notion of the marginal has been altered, subsumed, or otherwise composted into its...

It begins with a landscape. The cinematic depictions of the Sonoran desert in El Mar La Mar (2017) and A Shape of Things to Come (2020), both co-directed by J.P. Sniadecki with Joshua Bonnetta and Lisa Malloy r...

In its young history Punto de Vista (International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra) has staked out a distinguished identity, owing foremost to a progressive agenda and an experimental ethos. What might be ...

In the tiny village of Alzuza – once Navarran countryside, now a mere suburb of Pamplona – the museum of Basque intellectual and sculptor Jorge Oteiza sits perched with angular incongruity on a hillside, conjoi...

As I flipped through the book Dekalog 3: On Film Festivals (1) on my flight to Argentina, the unofficial testimony for BAFICI – the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente – as paradigmatic am...

At a slot in the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival program called Porchlight: True Stories From the Frontiers of International Filmmaking, directors took the stage in variety show style to divulge ...

En la Ciudad de Sylvia/Dans la ville de Sylvie/In the City of Sylvia (2007 Spain 84 mins) Prod Co: Château-Rouge Productions/Eddie Saeta S.A./Televisió de Catalunya/Televisión Española Prod: Luis Miñarro...

25 September – 10 October 2008 “Radishes are genius...” Such are the first words, uttered by a vivacious grandmother reigning over the kitchen at a family reunion, in Aruitemo, Aruitemo (Still Walkin...

24 April – 4 May 2008 In the State of Cinema Address at the 51st San Francisco Film Festival, delivered annually by a prominent figure ”to address complex issues facing contemporary cinema”, this year...

8–20 April 2008 Midway through the 10th edition of the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI), an acrid, ashen fog shrouded the city. “Humo!” cried my cab driver indignantly, ...

20 April – 4 May 2006 “San Francisco’s in a tough position” tells me the editor of a major American film magazine, at a festival reception in honour of Guy Maddin, or Werner Herzog, I can’t remember. His...