Author Philip Cartelli

Creating a new film festival in the same time and place as one of the world’s most venerable and large cinematic celebrations may seem like a futile task, but the third edition of the Berlin Critics’ Week (Woch...

I. It’s the first one in the film – what is often dismissively labelled an establishing shot, as though all that it does is to set the stage for something else like an empty contextual vessel. But shots like t...

For the past twenty years, Marseille has been home to the largest urban development project in Europe, a redesign of the city’s aging and increasingly obsolete Mediterranean seaport infrastructure intended to a...

Hito Steyerl’s 1998 film The Empty Centre follows the transformation of downtown Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz from a no-man’s land, once split in half by the Berlin Wall, to a central European Times Square, thick w...

The Cinéma du Réel in Paris has acquired a largely deserved reputation for operating outside of a non-fiction cinematic mainstream. Some of the works screened during its 35th edition, however, left it unclear w...

Cinephiles around the world mourned Chris Marker’s passing earlier this year, while the death of another avant-garde filmmaker and former countryman of Marker’s has largely gone unnoticed aside from a few annou...