Editorial the editors January 2023 Editorial As is customary for the sensible folks at Senses of Cinema, we begin the new year by looking backwards. Our annual World Poll invites authors and audiences to reflect on their cinematic highlights of the previo...
World Poll 2022 – Part 1 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Hussain Al-Dubaisi Francisco Algarín Navarro Algitya Algi Michael J. Anderson Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Barker Kyle Barrowman Mike Bartlett Nicolas Bartlett Arta Ba...
World Poll 2022 – Part 2 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: José Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Guilherme Cavalcanti Jane Cheadle Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Janina Ciezadlo Jesús ...
World Poll 2022 – Part 3 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards John K. Emelianoff Javier H. Estrada Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Simon Foster Flora Georgiou Sean GilmanAntony I. Ginnane Leo Goldsmith Andrew Goode Mi...
World Poll 2022 – Part 4 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Dr Lisa Harper Campbell Craig Harshaw Michael Heath Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee HillKierran Horner Christoph Huber Robert Hughes Darik Janik Tara Judah Dr Lisa Harper Campb...
World Poll 2022 – Part 5 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Nolan Kelly Simon Killen Rainer Knepperges Ricardo Köhler Benjamin Kooyman Maja Korbecka Sneha Krishnan Jay KuehnerAdam Kuntavanish Otto Kylmälä ...
World Poll 2022 – Part 6 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Josh B Mabe Jonathan Mackris Ioannis Makris Bob Manning Miguel MaríasJack Mcculloch Jamie Mendonça Douglas Messerli Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Josh B Mabe Librarian & F...
World Poll 2022 – Part 7 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Peter Nagels Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Darragh O’Donoghue Roberto Oggiano Wilfred Okiche Andreea Patru Andrew F Peirce Jesse PercivalAntoni Peris-Grao Andréa Picard Milan Pribis...
World Poll 2022 – Part 8 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Maria San Filippo Rowena Santos Aquino José Sarmiento Hinojosa Valerie Soe Öykü Sofuoğlu Mark Spratt Vedant Srinivas Tyson Stewart Iván SuárezJosh Timmermann Tomas Trussow Koen Van...
Introduction Luise Moerke and Jack Seibert February 2023 The Geometry of Movement: Computer-Generated Imagery in Film In Berlin and Los Angeles, the cities where we live, passing a construction site means encountering the promise of an architectural future. Real estat...
From Legos to CGI: An Interview with Kris Theorin Andrea Comiskey January 2023 The Geometry of Movement: Computer-Generated Imagery in Film Kris Theorin is lead Animation Director at Something's Awry, a Philadelphia animation studio that specializes in short CG works for brands and other c...
Digitality and the Persistence of Realism in Birdman Jonah Jeng January 2023 The Geometry of Movement: Computer-Generated Imagery in Film This article has been peer reviewed. There is a scene in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) in whic...
Ray Tracing Extinction 60 Frames per Second: On the Unreal Disappearance of Cats, Humans, and Computers Max Oginz January 2023 The Geometry of Movement: Computer-Generated Imagery in Film Why do Robots Need Pets? In Stray's final moments, natural light floods a world otherwise lit by neon signs, streetlights, and sterile, carceral fluo...
Aesthetic Pollution: Parsing Carter’s Morphed Images Samuel Harris January 2023 The Geometry of Movement: Computer-Generated Imagery in Film In contemporary cinema, CGI is commonly used in service of images of transcendent beauty and spectacle, or in the believable synthesis of digital crea...
DeepFakes and the (Un)Gendering of the Flesh Shane Denson January 2023 The Geometry of Movement: Computer-Generated Imagery in Film Computer-generated imagery used to be a fairly well-defined object, compartmentalized from the indexical images of celluloid-based cinematography and ...
Gollum, Caesar, Thanos: The Algorithmic Body Across Twenty Years of Motion Capture Sophie Violet Gilmore January 2023 The Geometry of Movement: Computer-Generated Imagery in Film “We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious.” It is 2002, and this now iconic line has just been croaked by gangly ring-fetishist Gollum in Pet...
When Knowledge Takes Over Action: A Narrative Analysis of Three Georgian Conflict-Sensitive Films: The Other Bank, Tangerines, and Corn Island Khatuna Maisashvili January 2023 Feature Articles Expectations – When and How Culture Would Reflect Conflict’s Traumatic Experience In the late 90s, a persistent question was present within the Georg...
Fellini’s Memory: Amarcord Bruce Jackson January 2023 Feature Articles “I’m a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I’ve invented the w...
Values of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis: A Carnival Ride Laleen Jayamanne January 2023 Feature Articles “It was the greatest Carnival Attraction I’d ever seen… His Super Power was Music.” - Colonel Tom Parker An Australian Film Brand With just six fi...
More than Mimicry: On Puppets and Interdependency in Annette and The Double Life of Véronique Indigo Bailey January 2023 Feature Articles At all three screenings I attended of Leos Carax’s incandescent rock opera, Annette (2021), at my local theatre, the already sparse audience trickled ...
After Structural Film: The Conceptual films of Morgan Fisher Arindam Sen January 2023 Feature Articles Two programs of Morgan Fisher’s films, presented during the recently concluded 68th edition of the Oberhausen short film festival, occasioned the chan...
This Body Keeps the Score: the films of Saidin Salkic Dirk de Bruyn January 2023 Feature Articles The man simply begins to decipher the inscription. He purses his lips, as if he is listening. You’ve seen that it’s not easy to figure out the inscrip...
Afterwater: A Conversation with Dane Komljen Maria Giovanna Vagenas March 2023 Interviews Afterwater, conceived, directed and edited by Dane Komljen, is both as limpid as the water of the lakes that appear in it, and as complex as their, of...
Splice Here A Projected Odyssey: An Interview with Rob Murphy Tara Judah January 2023 Interviews A lifelong cinephile, professional film projectionist (35mm and 70mm), and independent filmmaker, Rob Murphy is an optimistic anomaly within the indus...
Piaffe: Interview with Ann Oren Maria Giovanna Vagenas January 2023 Interviews Piaffe, Ann Oren's astonishing first feature film presented in competition at Locarno Film Festival 2022, bestows us with that same enchantment that e...
Flesh Memories: Yeo Siew Hua’s Expanded Cinema in The Once and Future Toby Wu January 2023 Interviews Yeo Siew Hua does not shy away from the entangling messiness of Anthropence-era fear. The world as we know it is ending, and yet we know more ways to ...
In Search of Lost Time: An Interview with Christophe Honoré David A. Gerstner January 2023 Interviews “It is not enough for a painter like Cézanne, an artist, or a philosopher, to create or express an idea,” writes Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The artist and...
Slow Fireworks: The Films of Amy Halpern Arindam Sen January 2023 Interviews Over a career that spanned nearly five decades, Amy Halpern made non-narrative films of all kinds – formal, poetic, playful, joyous, political and per...
About Time: Interview with Cyril Schäublin Hamed Sarrafi January 2023 Interviews In his latest film, Unrest (2022), Swiss director Cyril Schäublin has created something new and unique. Together with his feature debut, Those Who Are...
Enys Men: An Interview With Mark Jenkin Tara Judah January 2023 Interviews My first encounter with Mark Jenkin’s work was by recommendation from a Cornish friend. He’d been hand-processing 16mm and Super8 short films in Corn...
“West Germany Was Stolen from Us”: Dominik Graf on the Role of German Unification in His Films Marco Abel January 2023 Interviews Dominik Graf is one of Germany’s most important – and prolific – filmmakers of the last half century. Since his debut, the short film Carlas Briefe (C...
Fire Within: The 60th Viennale Leonardo Goi January 2023 Festival Reports The single strangest effect the pandemic’s had on me is that I seem to have changed the way I walk. I don’t mean how I walk indoors, or at home, but h...
The Kids Aren’t Alright: The 27th Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond January 2023 Festival Reports The latest edition of the Busan International Film festival was, for the first time since 2019, more fully “international” in terms of the festival au...
A Report on the Exhibition Threshold (works by Dirk de Bruyn, Guy Grabowsky & Mat Hughes) Glenn D'Cruz January 2023 Festival Reports Dirk de Bruyn’s extensive body of work is marked by an experimental ethos that consistently challenges formal cinematic conventions. Steven McIntyre h...
Politics, Isolation, Pandemic: The 35th Tokyo International Film Festival Kohei Usuda January 2023 Festival Reports If an argument can be made that film festivals reflect some of the unique traits of their host cities, the sprawling format of the Tokyo International...
All the Pain and Exploitation: 66th London Film Festival Tara Judah January 2023 Festival Reports After two years of hybrid versions, London Film Festival was back in full force. But I still felt uncertain about attending in person; fighting my way...
BABY, THE RAIN MUST FALL … on the Claude Sautet retrospective at the 70th San Sebastian International Film Festival Neil Young January 2023 Festival Reports Only a tiny handful of film festivals have ever made it to their 70th edition, but celebrations when Spain's leading such event — at San Sebastian, th...
Small but Mighty, the Power of the Donkey: Adelaide International Film Festival Saige Walton January 2023 Festival Reports Dubbed a “celebration of the imagination”, AFF expanded its scope in 2022 to include new venues across the city (Her Majesty’s Theatre, the Capri Thea...
Restarting Indian Documentary Film Festival Bhubaneswar (IDFFB) 2022 With a Bang! Dr. Sneha Krishnan January 2023 Festival Reports Worldwide, film festivals are slowly emerging in their physical avatars after the pandemic-induced break since 2020. Screening of independent document...
The 59th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival: Cold War Revisited Maja Korbecka January 2023 Festival Reports Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival survived the pandemic unscathed. None of its editions took an online or hybrid form. However, another issue thorough...
DOC NYC 2022: Fringe No More Will DiGravio January 2023 Festival Reports Since 2010, DOC NYC, the largest documentary festival in the United States, has put forth programs that showcase a wide range of works that rally unde...
Fosse, Bob Sherry Johnson January 2023 Great Directors b. Robert Louis Fosse, Chicago, Illinois, June 23, 1927 d. September 23, 1987, Washington, D.C. Although Bob Fosse died at the relatively young age ...
Cimino, Michael Giampiero Frasca January 2023 Great Directors b. 3 February 1939 in New York City, New York, USA d. 2 July 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA Michael Cimino is a name that unfortunately says l...
For a Double-Edged Theory: Christian Metz’ Essais sur la signification au cinéma at 50 Abel Muñoz Hénonin January 2023 Book Reviews The problem we face here is self-evident: how to address an unquestionable classic of film theory yet again? At a first glance, it might seem like ...
Dennis Lim’s Tale of Cinema: A Meta-Monograph Marc Raymond January 2023 Book Reviews The Australian publisher Fireflies Press has created a ten-book series of Decadent Editions, ten takes on a different film from each year of the 2000s...
In search of a Global Filipino Auteur: Sine ni Lav Diaz, edited by Parichay Patra and Micheal Kho Lim Pujita Guha January 2023 Book Reviews “Sine ni Lav Diaz”, roughly translated as “The cinema of Lav Diaz”, appears at the end of every Diaz film, signalling the auteur’s presence, as it wer...
I Remember: Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973) Jacob Agius February 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film Often cited as Federico Fellini’s most autobiographical film and the last of his greats, Amarcord (1973) can also be seen as one of the most autobiogr...
The Lure (Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2015) Faith Everard December 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Seven jellyfishes, eight jellybabies, Wanna drown in the water and stay dead for ages. Nine jellyfishes, ten jellyfishes, Give me a boyfriend who isn’...
Othering Heights: The Queerest of the Queer in Rosa von Praunheim’s City of Lost Souls (1983) Cerise Howard December 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Prolific activist-filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim was born Holger Radtke in Nazi-occupied Latvia in 1942. He rebranded himself “Rosa”, to serve as a cons...
To walk away, you gotta leave something behind, or a long story short: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) Cerise Howard December 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film For all that it contains resonances of queer musical elders – The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975), the Sandra Bernhard vehicle Without Y...
