Collective Heroes: Activism and Activation at the International Film Festival Rotterdam Tara Judah April 2020 Festival Reports As I write, supermarket shelves sit empty. People are stockpiling toilet paper, hand sanitiser and other household goods in preparation for a lockdown...
SXSW Lite: Mutating Social Hustle Into Couch Potato Charm Dirk de Bruyn April 2020 Festival Reports Five days before I got on a plane to SXSW, the world turned. All international travel was cancelled by my institution. A hammer blow. It took time to ...
A Festival is a Space in Time: the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival Leonardo Goi April 2020 Festival Reports As I type these words, a few months after leaving the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF), I don’t exactly know when the next fest wi...
Digging for Gold: To Save and Project: The 17th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation Tanner Tafelski April 2020 Festival Reports In a city bursting with monthly repertory programming, the Museum of Modern Art’s To Save and Project series stands out as an annual must-attend event...
In Praise of Collective Viewing: True/False 2020 Jordan M. Smith April 2020 Festival Reports It’s impossible to think about the 2020 True/False Film Festival outside of the context of the COVID-19 pandemic which really only began to reveal its...
A Resilient Ann Arbor Digs Deep Dirk de Bruyn April 2020 Festival Reports Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest running avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America. 1963 was its foundation year. This year wo...
Sundance 2020 Bérénice Reynaud April 2020 Festival Reports What are you looking at when you’re looking at me? As Sundance may be one of the last film festivals I will cover for a while, maybe it is a good tim...
Korean Cinema in the Shadow of Parasite: The 24th Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond January 2020 Festival Reports Busan 2019 marked a year of celebration, with multiple retrospective screenings in honour of the 100th anniversary of Korean cinema coinciding with Bo...
Dispatch from Reykjavík: Hot Films at a Cool Festival Randy Malamud January 2020 Festival Reports At Reykjavík International Film Festival’s 16th edition, strong opening and closing feature films – End of Sentence and Parasite – bookended a program...
StopTrik from Head to Toe and the Eisenstein International Network Amanda Barbour January 2020 Festival Reports The 9th edition of StopTrik and the inaugural conference of the Eisenstein International Network (EIN) took place, borderline consecutively, in Octobe...
About the Cliché in Films, or the Opportunity for a New Consciousness at a German Film Festival: A Report on the FilmFest Hamburg Vivien Buchhorn January 2020 Festival Reports Two women by the sea, their faces framed by cloth that give protection from the wind. They look at each other, the sea is foaming, the beach studded w...
Right-wing Conservatives Against Film Lovers: The 20th Tbilisi International Film Festival Levan Tskhovrebadze January 2020 Festival Reports In Georgia, a country empty of non-commercial movie theatres, the local cinephiles’ only destination for art-house cinema is the Tbilisi International...
