The buzz around Connor Sen Warnick’s first feature, Characters Disappearing, has been humming since it screened at last year’s New/Next Film Festival in Baltimore. In…
Seemingly participating in a new trend of grandiloquent, marquee-busting film titles that includes the Mosotho drama Mother, I Am Suffocating. This is My Last Film…
Perhaps more than any other contemporary director apart from Alain Guiraudie, French filmmaker Pierre Creton is committed to exploring eros as a philosophical proposition, the…
A longtime favorite filmmaker at InRO, this writer had only seen one work by Nicolás Pereda, Minotaur (2015) — a surreal exploration of stasis and…
Il Cinema Ritrovato, the annual cinephile pilgrimage in Bologna, has reached its 40th edition. As ever, it brings an ample assortment of newly restored films…
If what Emmanuel Levinas said about the human face is true — that it “orders and ordains” us — then sudden, violent facial destruction signals…
The “YouTuber-to-filmmaker” pipeline is becoming a viable pathway to Hollywood success in 2026, particularly in the horror genre. In some notable cases, like with movie…
The Super-8 camera is light like a feather. In order to employ it well, the filmmaker should be light as a feather. To watch a…
In an introduction for Bill Morrison’s new film darker, Nitrate Picture Show festival director Peter Bagrov joked that when archivists and preservationists come across reels…
The 10th Nitrate Picture Show, programmed by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, is predicated on a technology both out-of-date and incendiary: the…