Welcome to Issue 77 of our Journal the editors December 2015 Editorial Celebrating, appraising and dissecting the work of film artists is the great joy of Senses of Cinema. But when such work is demanded by the passing of a major figure, it is overlain by an inescapable melancholy...
Introduction: 2015 World Poll the editors January 2016 World Poll Happy new year all and welcome to the Senses of Cinema World Poll. The end of a year can make one a little list-fatigued, so consider this one more a cinephilic kickstart to the new year. Our 12th Senses of...
World Poll 2015 – Part 1 the editors January 2016 World Poll Entries in part 1: Francisco Algarín Navarro Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Rowena Santos Aquino Miriam Bale Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Raphaël Bassan Conor Bateman Gustavo Beck Sean Bell Y...
World Poll 2015 – Part 2 the editors January 2016 World Poll Entries in part 2: Michael Da Silva Fergus Daly Adrian Danks Dustin Dasig Henri de Corinth Monica Delgado Wheeler Winston Dixon Dzondunkellicht Gerónimo Elortegui Jeremy Elphick Miguel Faus...
World Poll 2015 – Part 3 the editors January 2016 World Poll Entries in part 3: Avi Hanner Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Michael Helms Alain Hertay Wai Ho Peter Hourigan Cerise Howard Brian Hu Felix Hubble Christoph Huber Darren Hughes Zachary Ingle Dari...
World Poll 2015 – Part 4 the editors January 2016 World Poll Entries in part 4: Josh Mabe Helen Macallan Miguel Marías Dmitry Martov Neil McGlone Duncan McLean Adrian Mendizabal Mads Mikkelsen David Miller Olaf Möller Brent Morrow Oona Mosna Jorge Mour...
World Poll 2015 – Part 5 the editors January 2016 World Poll Entries in part 5: Fidel Jesús Quirós Bérénice Reynaud Stuart Richards Jeremy Rigsby Peter Rist Eloise Ross Julian Ross André Roy Dan Sallitt Maria San Filippo Yianna Sarri Christine Sathiah ...
A Homeland Swansong: Apichatpong Weerasethakul on Cemetery of Splendor Amir Ganjavie December 2015 Feature Articles Three years since the release of his short feature Mekong Hotel (2012), Apichatpong Weerasethakul has returned to the international scene with Cemeter...
The Poetry of Light and Dark: Luciano Tovoli and Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977) Alexandra Heller-Nicholas December 2015 Feature Articles Luciano Tovoli’s reputation as one of the great Italian cinematographers is commonly framed in reference to his work on Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 ...
Obsessions, Imitations & Subversions, Part Two – on Imitation of Life Tom Ryan December 2015 Feature Articles “It’s not a remake as such, it’s a new take.” Michael Boughen, producer of the TV series, Tomorrow When the War Began The subject here is Imita...
A Tale of Two Suzannes: À nos amours (1983) and Suzanne (2013) Maria San Filippo December 2015 Feature Articles Nominated for a César for Best Original Screenplay, Suzanne (2013) is the second feature film by Ivory Coast-born writer-director Katell Quillévéré, o...
Filming without Predetermined Results: Henner Winckler and the Berlin School Marco Abel December 2015 Feature Articles I think every film ought to be an experiment, without predetermined results. In the fall of 2013, in short succession four books were published ...
Exceptions to the Rule: the 2015 New York Film Festival Daniel Fairfax and Joshua Sperling December 2015 Festival Reports We are living at a tenuous moment. Politics are at a flashpoint. Nation-states seem put to the test every new month. Meanwhile the chasm between rich ...
Context and Contrast: DOK Leipzig 2015 Dennis Vetter December 2015 Festival Reports Limitation What makes most documentaries so easy to understand is the arbitrary limitation of their subject matter. They confine themselves to depict...
Ghostly Wanderings Between Cinema and the Gallery: 2015 Adelaide Film Festival Saige Walton December 2015 Festival Reports Sleepwalkers, sleepers, phantoms, psychics, spectres and memories of the dearly departed suffused the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) this year. While fe...
The Walls of the Bestiary: The 53rd Viennale James Lattimer December 2015 Festival Reports Perhaps the most difficult thing about having a good reputation is the need to maintain it. There’s scarcely a festival more exalted for the quality o...
No Home Movies: Wavelengths at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes December 2015 Festival Reports The 2011 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Wavelengths program included Mark Lewis’s short film, Black Mirror at the National Galle...
Of Death Throes and Transitions: 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival David Heslin December 2015 Festival Reports The final film I see at the 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival is Aleksei German’s Under Electric Clouds, a collection of gloomy vignettes set...
Contradiction, Film Formats and Audience Development at the 59th BFI London Film Festival Tara Judah December 2015 Festival Reports It’s at least five years too late, but this year’s LFF included a sold out panel discussion on the importance of keeping film – specifically the photo...
Between Chez Papy’s and Donut Time: The 6th La Roche-Sur-Yon International Film Festival James Lattimer December 2015 Festival Reports La Roche-Sur-Yon feels like an unlikely place for any festival at all, let alone the pleasingly eclectic one it’s been granted. This small town was gi...
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Joshua Glick and Masha Shpolberg December 2015 Festival Reports The Arlington Hotel, the nerve centre of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, feels electric come October. Built in 1924, the Spanish Colonial-s...
Tarantino, Quentin Jeremy Carr December 2015 Great Directors Quentin Jerome Tarantino, March 27, 1963, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Were it not for Quentin Tarantino’s unassuming background, his meteoric rise to f...
Steven Spielberg’s Duel (1971) and the Road to Interpretation: Steven Spielberg and Duel: The Making of a Film Career by Steven Awalt Adrian Schober December 2015 Book Reviews In September 1973, 26-year-old Steven Spielberg attended a press conference in Rome to promote his made-for-TV chase thriller, Duel (1971), which had ...
Archiving the Unforgettable: “Night and Fog”: A Film in History, by Sylvie Lindeperg Tony McKibbin December 2015 Book Reviews There have been numerous books about the making of a film: from Final Cut, a book detailing the production history of Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino, 1...
The Horror of Not Seeing: Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces Of A Lost Decade, by Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Charlie Ellbé, and Kristopher Woofter (eds). Michael Helms December 2015 Book Reviews Since the mid 1980s, when educational institutions across the planet began to host course units dedicated to the horror film, there has naturally been...
Understanding Genre in a Globalized World: World Cinema through Global Genres, by William V. Costanzo Katherine Balsley December 2015 Book Reviews William V. Costanzo’s World Cinema through Global Genres is comprehensive and truly enjoyable. At 431 pages it never becomes dull or opaque, and inste...
I Like Your Early, Scary Films: Consumed: A Novel, by David Cronenberg Dan Erdman December 2015 Book Reviews For a director who is so indelibly associated with the “body horror” genre, what is often overlooked about David Cronenberg’s film work is the fact th...
In Memoriam – Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion Bérénice Reynaud December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion Chantal Akerman’s suicide on 5 October, 2015, did not only leave a void. It burnt a hole in the texture of time, and those of us who were nearby (in b...
Speech read out during the funeral ceremony for Chantal Akerman at the Père Lachaise cemetery, Tuesday, 13 October, 2015 Delphine Horvilleur December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion We have gathered here to accompany Chantal Akerman to this place that in Hebrew we call bet hashayim – “the house of the living”. This name can seem p...
A Last Conversation with Chantal Akerman Esther Orner December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion Dearest Chantal, I am speaking to you from Tel Aviv – a city you loved and visited often. We’d see each other, we’d have a good time together. Some...
With Chantal Marilyn Watelet December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion I met Chantal in a bourgeois high school, where we both got up to no good. We felt ill at ease there and we would often play truant to go to the movi...
Tribute to Chantal Akerman by Claire Atherton Claire Atherton December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion A text written and read by Claire Atherton at the homage to Chantal Akerman at the Cinémathèque Française on 16 November 2015, before the premiere scr...
Dear Chantal Yvonne Rainer December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion 12 October, 2015 Dear Chantal, Like so many others, I was shocked to hear of your suicide. In a narcissistic fantasy I imagine I might have help...
I Didn’t See Time Go By Vivian Ostrovsky December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion When people are enjoying a film they say ‘I didn’t see the time go by’… but I think that when time flies and you don’t see time passing by you are rob...
About Saute ma ville (1968), Chantal Akerman’s first film Nicole Fernandez Ferrer December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion “Look at a painting, read a book, have fun and here we go!” - Chantal Akerman in the documentary Chantal Akerman, écrivain de cinéma by Nicole Witar...
Chantal and Some Comrades. Fragments. Nicole Brenez December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion 1. Werner’s Gaze, by Chantal In the prospect of writing a text on Chantal, I viewed films she had shot during the 2008 Venice Film Festival, where sh...
The Loudness of the World: Listening to What is Out There: Sound Strategies in Akerman’s Fiction and Documentary Films Babette Mangolte December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion Looking at and listening to the first scene of Chantal Akerman’s J’ai faim, J’ai froid (1984), in the complex long shot that describes the arrival of ...
Chantal Akerman: Heartfelt Janet Bergstrom December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion I am watching Chantal Akerman talk about No Home Movie (2015) following the screening at Locarno in August. She talks a lot, she doesn’t want to stop...
Projection: On Chantal Akerman’s Screens, from Cinema to the Art Gallery Giuliana Bruno December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion A landscape expresses a mood. Such “expression” says exactly what we intend by the term “empathy.” – Theodor Lipps I would like to film . . . co...
Her Cinema, Even Elisabeth Lebovici December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion Chantal Akerman’s cinema is within me. This vaguely paranoid hypothesis, it seems to me that I share it with other women (undoubtedly some men as w...
These Shoes Are Made For Walking Bérénice Reynaud December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion Foreword In the 13 years before her death, Chantal Akerman completed only three narrative features, La Captive (The Captive, 2000), Demain on déménag...
The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini: Introduction Luca Peretti and Daniel Fairfax December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini At the beginning of November 1975, Pasolini was killed on the beach of Ostia, a suburb of Rome. He was 53 years old. In the previous decade-and-a-half...
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Bandung Man”: The Indian and African Documentaries Pieter Vanhove December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini In 1975, just months before he was brutally murdered near Ostia, Pier Paolo Pasolini makes a striking diagnosis: “In the early 1960s, because of the a...
Comizi di Non Amore: Francesco Vezzoli Revisits Pasolini through Reality TV Francesco Spampinato December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini Translated in English as Love Meetings, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Comizi d’amore (1964) should have been better translated literally: “Debates About Love....
(Mamma) Roma between Archaic and Modern Italy: Urbanisation and the Destruction of Poetical Dwelling Eleonora Sartoni December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini This article reads Martin Heidegger’s lectures on dwelling alongside Pier Paolo Pasolini’s depiction of Casarsa in “L’Usignolo” (“The Nightingale”) an...
Not to be Reproduced: Pasolini’s Salò and the Question of Visual Arts Ana Delia Rogobete December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini In an article dedicated to Pier Pasolo Pasolini’s Salò o le 120 giornate di sodoma (Salò or The 120 Days of Sodom, 1975), Roland Barthes asks himself ...
Beyond Perverse Allegiance: The Problem of Viewers’ Engagement in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò or The 120 Days of Sodom Paolo Russo December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini “Perhaps the most successful representation of physical cruelty in the history of cinema.” – Gilbert Adair, 1979 In a lengthy letter to the Directo...
Anglo-American Scholarship on Pasolini Today: Cinema and cinema of poetry Karen Raizen December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini The problem – or rather, a problem – with Pasolini is that he does not fit any one box. A glance at any call for papers for the numerous conferences o...
Pasolini’s “Kapadokya” Ellen Patat and Cristiano Bedin December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini This article explores the representation of Cappadocia (Kapadokya in Turkish) in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poetry and in one of his renowned movies, Medea...
The Profanation of Montage: Pasolini’s Allegorical Death/Cut in the Sequence-Shot Toni Hildebrandt December 2015 The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini “Can the idea of the spiritual innocence of life in the simplicity of character also be formulated collectively in relation to history?” (Eli Friedlan...
A Work in Progress: the Rise and Fall of Australian Filmmakers Co-operatives, 1966–86 John Hughes December 2015 Australian Film History Film co-ops were born out of necessity – both economic and political. During the 1960s and 1970s, avant-garde and experimental cinema, “expanded cinem...
The Pioneering Years of Australian Animation (1900–1930): From Animated Sketches to Animation Empire Dan Torre and Lienors Torre December 2015 Australian Film History This year marks the centenary of Harry Julius signing a contract with Australasian Films to produce the weekly animated series, Cartoons of the Moment...
