Editorial the editors August 2024 Editorial Welcome to Issue 110 of the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema, packed as always with incisive contributions on moving images historical and contemporary, popular and underrecognized. At its cinephili...
22 Years of El Pampero Cine: Trailblazing Independent Cinema in Argentina Hamed Sarrafi August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine Over the past few years, as a dedicated cinephile immersed in the vibrant world of alternative global cinema, you’ve likely encountered the growing pr...
In the Beginning Was the Word: Interview with Mariano Llinás (Part 1) Hamed Sarrafi August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine Interviewing Mariano Llinás, one of the most creative minds in today's cinematic landscape, has been both a significant and challenging endeavour that...
Beyond Cleverness – A Cheater’s Guide for Embracing Innocence (Part 1): Interview with Alejo Moguillansky about His Movies and El Pampero Cine Hamed Sarrafi August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine One key takeaway from Alejo Moguillansky’s films is that by telling one's personal story, you can illuminate broader topics and issues. In an effort t...
Where Amateurs Shine – A Grand Entrance for Many: Interview with Agustín Mendilaharzu about El Pampero Cine and Clementina Hamed Sarrafi August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine During the global lockdown, the film industry faced significant disruptions that challenged filmmakers both creatively and logistically. However, El P...
Positivist Entropy: Interview with Rafael Spregelburd Hamed Sarrafi August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine Embarking on the El Pampero Cine Dossier project has been a revelatory expedition into the heart of a team that profoundly shapes today's Argentine cu...
Southern Breezes: Re-readings and Drifts in Laura Citarella’s Cinema Juan Velis & Adalberto Fonkén August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine Introduction Laura Citarella's cinema, characterized by a distinctive style and profound thematic complexity, is significantly shaped by her involvem...
Forging Fiction from Reality: The Films of Alejo Moguillansky Jay Beck & Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine "We artists are irresponsible people." – Maxim Gorky to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, c. 1907-08 As a core member of El Pampero Cine, Alejo Moguillansk...
Mariano Llinás in the Footsteps of Borges: Playful Encounters with Documentary and Literature Hernán Sassi August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine Like the new generation of directors who introduced a fresh face to Argentine cinema at the start of the new century, Mariano Llinás believed it was t...
Self-Management, Horizontalism, and “Extremely Cheap Risks”: El Pampero Cinema and Independent Theatre Jean Graham-Jones August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine This article was first published in Entre/telones y pantallas. Afectos y saberes en la performance argentina contemporánea (Libraria, 2020), the volum...
El Pampero Sings: Inventions on the Motif in La Flor and Two More Terence W. Yang August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine 1. Introduction Like how Julio Cortázar wrote about Charlie Parker, here is an attempt to write about something by means of something else. In the sh...
Elisa Carricajo: Piel de Lava and El Pampero Cine in dialogue Maria M. Delgado August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine Interview translated by Alma Prelec and Maria Delgado. The histories of El Pampero Cine and Piel de Lava are intertwined. Both are companies founde...
Double Exposure: Reflections from El Pampero Cine Companions María Villar & Andreas Fontana August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine Teamwork and collaboration have been essential to El Pampero's sustained success and cultural impact for over two decades, significantly shaping the g...
Once Upon a Time, Mr. Z…: Interview with Walter Jakob Hamed Sarrafi August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine El Pampero Cine is acclaimed for its intricate narratives, its playful engagement with filmmaking, and its deep literary and cinematic roots, clearly ...
A Composer’s Passion – Traditions and Syntheses: Interview with Gabriel Chwojnik Hamed Sarrafi August 2024 22 Years of El Pampero Cine Anyone fortunate enough to attend the back-to-back screenings of La Flor (The Flower, Mariano Llinás, 2018) over three nights at the 62nd London Film ...
Elizabeth Price’s “Dexterous Facility”: An Anarchival Impulse? Catherine Fowler August 2024 Feature Articles This article has been peer reviewed. From Abby Warburg’s art project Mnemosyne Atlas to art documentaries such as Alain Resnais and Chris Marker’s ...
American Wasteland: Alex Garland’s Civil War Wheeler Winston Dixon August 2024 Feature Articles WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD In the midst of what is in all probability the most consequential presidential election in the history of the United States...
From Domestic Ethnography to a Cinema of Mourning: Finding the Father on Film Emily Rytmeister August 2024 Feature Articles In the end, one must recognize that all this filling up and patching over of holes in the Real has its limits. And yet, as regards the work of mournin...
Cinematic Modalities: Beyond the Boundaries of Frame, Image and Sound in Mommy and The Lighthouse Rebecca Chew August 2024 Feature Articles Periods of intense technological change are always fascinating for film theory, because the films themselves tend to stage its primary question: What ...
The Fleeting Lullabies of Queerness: An Analysis of the Queer Poetics in Jenni Olson’s Short Films Amin Heidari August 2024 Feature Articles Soul, O My Rare Soul, Your Flame’s Too Fine for Their Crude Oil Abbas Kiarostami, the renowned Persian filmmaker, once distinguished films into two t...
“Do you know who I am?”: Confusion and Loss in Saidin Salkic’s My Heart Bled like Niagara Falls Fiona Villella August 2024 Feature Articles The cinema of Saidin Salkic may be known to only a handful in the Melbourne film community but that’s no reflection of its complexity, inventiveness a...
An Interview with Haobam Paban Kumar Aditya Shrikrishna August 2024 Interviews In plain terms, AFSPA expands to Armed Forces Special Powers Act, an act of the Indian Parliament that grants special powers to the Indian army to mai...
Interview with Celina Murga Gary M. Kramer August 2024 Interviews Argentine writer/director Celina Murga has made a series of intriguing character studies over the course of her career starting with her debut feature...
Interview with Florence Delay, Bresson’s Joan of Arc Sally Shafto August 2024 Interviews Florence Delay (b. 1941), novelist and performer, is most well-known for playing Joan of Arc in Robert Bresson’s Le Procès de Jeanne d’Arc (The Trial ...
An Interview with Antoine Chevrollier Gary M. Kramer August 2024 Interviews For his feature film debut, Block Pass, which premiered at Cannes this year, director Antoine Chevrollier reteams with actor Sayyid El Alami who starr...
An Interview with Graham Swon Joshua Bogatin August 2024 Interviews There could hardly be a less auspicious way to start a filmmaking career than as a producer on a Matías Piñeiro film, and it wasn’t long after produci...
An Interview with Jonás Trueba Gary M. Kramer August 2024 Interviews Jonás Trueba won the Label Europa Cinemas prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for his feature The Other Way Around, about a couple’s separation ...
An Interview with Federico Luis Gary M. Kramer August 2024 Interviews Simón de la montaña (Simon of the Mountain, 2024) grabs viewers from its opening moments as the title character (Lorenzo Ferro), a 21-year-old, tries ...
On New Shores: The 27th San Francisco Silent Film Festival Jonathan Mackris August 2024 Festival Reports First, a bit of news from the front. Those who have been following some of the local drama outlined in my last dispatch from the San Francisco Silent ...
Nurturing Open Memories: Film for Mother 2024 Zifei Wang August 2024 Festival Reports On Sunday, 12 May 2024, an online crowd of over 100 participants gathered to bid farewell to the two-month-long Film for Mother Festival (hereinafter ...
Film’s Struggle Through the Ages: The 8th Annual Nitrate Picture Show Joshua Bogatin August 2024 Festival Reports The only thing to discover at The Nitrate Picture Show is the past. With an entire slate of programming consisting of nothing besides rare nitrate pri...
14th Taiwan International Documentary Festival: Archival Experiences Maja Korbecka August 2024 Festival Reports Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) is one of the few remaining international film festivals in the Chinese-speaking world that celebrate...
An Archival Bug: The 38th Il Cinema Ritrovato Nace Zavrl August 2024 Festival Reports Film history is back in vogue, or perhaps it never went away. When Il Cinema Ritrovato – likely the world’s largest and most popular event dedicated t...
Mass appeal: Report from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival Elena Lazic August 2024 Festival Reports Most of the years I have attended the Cannes Film Festival, it has felt futile to try to explain in just a few words – besides “great” or “amazing” – ...
Looking Back to the Future: the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Cerise Howard August 2024 Festival Reports Whether local or visiting festival-goers, distinguished or emerging filmmakers, industry professionals or members of the press, few attendees would ha...
Guzmán, Patricio Matthew J. Losada August 2024 Great Directors b. 11 August, 1941, Santiago, Chile Patricio Guzmán’s career in documentary film now stretches through six decades. He started out as a young man fil...
Box, Muriel Melanie Williams August 2024 Great Directors b. 22 September 1905, New Malden, United Kingdom d. 18 May 1991, Hendon, United Kingdom The future director Muriel Box’s fascination with the medium...
Aleksandrov, Grigori Vasilyevich Tony Williams August 2024 Great Directors b. 23 January 1903, Yekaterinburg, Russia. d. 16 December 1983, Moscow. “This was during the most terrible time of Soviet history. The film came out...
Nicholson, Jack Jaimey Fisher August 2024 Great Actors b. 22 April 1937, Neptune City, New Jersey, United States The Affective Structure of Furious Feeling: Masculinist Anger in the American New Wave and ...
They Do Indeed Exist: Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit, by Khadijeh Habashneh Henri de Corinth August 2024 Book Reviews “…photography is as important to us as fighting because it disseminates our image to the world.” - Abu Jihad The Palestine Film Unit was a filmma...
New Waves for Old: L’Amour fou Joseph Sgammato July 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film A note to the audience about to watch L’Amour fou, the 1969 film directed by Jacques Rivette: the movie is over four hours long. Be prepared – find a ...
Le Retour à Lumière: Jean Eustache’s Numéro Zéro Corey Cribb & Campbell Walker July 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In an already complex, contested filmography, Numéro Zéro (1971) has always been the hardest of Jean Eustache’s films to see, yet Eustache himself spo...
Une sale histoire Darragh O’Donoghue July 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In Une sale histoire (Jean Eustache, 1977), a dirty story is told – twice. The work comprises two notionally identical short films in which a middle-a...
Santa Claus has Blue Eyes Danica van de Velde July 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In his influential 1966 new wave film Masculin féminin (Masculine Feminine), Jean-Luc Godard defined a generation of French adolescents as “the childr...
Boys Don’t Cry: Mes petites amoureuses David Heslin July 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In cinema, despair can, via expression and body language, be communicated in a range of subtle or exaggerated demonstrations, whether it be an anguish...
“Rang & Ranj” (Colour and Suffering), “Taar & Poud” (Warp and Weft): Negotiating Between Paradigms of Life in Gabbeh Khatereh Sheibani June 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996) was the 16th cinematic production by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, one of the most acclaimed, yet controversial filmmakers of th...
Unveiling the Meta Skin of Marzieh Meshkiny’s The Day I Became a Woman Sandra E. Lim June 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Ruzi keh Zan Shodam (The Day I Became a Woman, Marzieh Meshkiny, 2000) is Marzieh Meshkiny’s debut film, produced by the Makhmalbaf Film House which w...
Two-Legged Horse Faith Everard June 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In the first moment we had never a thought That they were creatures to be owned and used. Among them were some half a dozen colts Dropped in some w...
The Apple Martyn Bamber June 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film At the time of the 2004 UK cinema release of Samira Makhmalbaf’s third feature Panj é asr (At Five in the Afternoon, 2003), an introduction to an arti...
Symphony in Red-sharp Major – The Silence Rolland Man June 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film As persistent echoes that afar consort In dim and intense accord Colossal as the dark and as the glow, Scents, hues and sounds agree. – Charles ...
