Uncanny, Haptic Encounters and the Importance of Play: An Interview with Josephine Decker, Filmmaker Brigitta Wagner March 2014 Feature Articles Not all actors are filmmakers, and not all filmmakers can act. And certainly not all actor-filmmakers walk in slow motion in Times Square with cans of oil poised on their heads (in performance protest of the 20...
“Everything is dead but the motor still turns”: An Interview with Albert Serra Daniel Fairfax December 2013 Feature Articles Albert Serra It was with some trepidation that I watched Catalonian director Albert Serra’s Historia de la meva mort (The Story of My Death) at this year’s Viennale. After quickly gaining notoriety as an en...
Reasoned Arguments: A Conversation with Frederick Wiseman about At Berkeley Darren Hughes December 2013 Feature Articles Frederick Wiseman’s second documentary, High School (1968), was at the time of its release an unprecedented glimpse into America’s public education system. Throughout his career, Wiseman has bristled at the ter...
Bringing the War Back Home: An Interview with Jonathan Teplitzky on The Railway Man Tom Ryan December 2013 Feature Articles Jonathan Teplitzky. Photo: Debi Enker A $16 million Australia-UK co-production, Jonathan Teplitzky’s The Railway Man tells the story of Second Lieutenant Eric Lomax, a Signal Corps engineer from Edinburgh w...
The Porterfield Touch: An Interview with Matthew Porterfield Brigitta Wagner July 2013 Feature Articles When can a filmmaker be said to have ‘a touch’? Ernst Lubitsch had a touch, but what exactly was this? A penchant for comic timing, for finding just the right way to stage a visual punch line or to tickle spect...
Fan Filmmaker and Star-struck Celebrity: An Interview with Michael Winner Christopher Hogg and Douglas S. Kern July 2013 Feature Articles Orson Welles, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Lauren Bacall, Michael Caine, John Gielgud and Ben Kingsley: whilst this list offers a roll-call for some of the most famous film stars of the Twentieth Century, it al...
Bref Magazine, or, A Tribute to Short Films and thus to the Cinema in General Viviane Vagh December 2012 Feature Articles I have been acquainted with the magazine Bref: le magazine du court métrage (1) and have followed its articles on short films for many years now. Bref is the only French –and perhaps, the only magazine any...
“Yes, we were utopians; in a way, I still am…”: interview with Jean-Louis Comolli (Part 2) Daniel Fairfax September 2012 Feature Articles Editor of Cahiers du cinéma between 1965 and 1973, Jean-Louis Comolli’s foundational place in the history of film theory will be assured by several key texts – among them “Technique and Ideology”, “Cinema/Ideol...
“Yes, we were utopians; in a way, I still am…”: An Interview with Jean-Louis Comolli (Part 1) Daniel Fairfax April 2012 Feature Articles In depth interview with one of the seminal figures in the emergence of a Marxist/Althusserian oriented film theory. In this first of a two-part interview, to be published over two issues, Comolli discusses the “Cahiers years” between 1965 and 1973.
“Even God Was Overcome by Laziness”: An interview with Aleksandr Sokurov Marko Bauer December 2011 Feature Articles A true poet of the cinema, the director of, amongst others, Russian Ark and The Sun, talks philosophy, religion, aesthetics and the Russian soul.
Son of Atlantis: prologues and epilogues with Sokurov Marko Bauer, Luka Umek and Dasa Cerar December 2011 Feature Articles Using interview footage of Sokurov and combining it with other elements, the filmmakers produce a contemplative video-essay on the director.
Keeping Experimental and “Different Cinema” Alive! An Interview with Marcel Mazé Viviane Vagh December 2011 Feature Articles This year marks the 40th anniversary of France’s first filmmakers’ co-op, the Collectif Juene Cinéma. Marcel Mazé, founder and president, discusses its fascinating history.
