An example of the laziness rife in digital filmmaking, Erige Sehiri’s Under the Fig Trees employs a haphazard handheld cinematography that echoes the immediacy of…
Animation is a tool that has been sporadically utilized to shade in the gaps of history within a subjective consciousness. These subjectivities often pertain to…
Having premiered at the Berlinale earlier this year and going on to win the 2023 Caligari Film Award — supplemented by the almost parodic jury…
Fadhel Messaoudi (played by himself) is in a fatal car crash. His soul ascends to a purgatorial stasis, imagined via the images of interrogation from…
Detrimental is the perspective mired in solipsism, where the world that surrounds a character exists only to serve their compulsions. What is disclosed through this…
It’s a film like Monica that offers you space to question the legitimacy of our major film festivals’ competition branches, a film where only industrial…
Alexandre Larose’s work is no stranger to the descriptors underlined by Impressionism, typically reflecting its aesthetic sensibilities of refracted, textured light. In fact, he seems…
Experimental animator Jodie Mack is likely best known for her 2018 magnum opus, The Grand Bizarre — a remarkable film that connects handmade textiles to…
Helmut Dosantos’ feature debut, Gods of Mexico, is an ethereal work of observation, informing tonality through compositional rigor, the beauty on display siphoned into a…
In experimenting with narrative in the cinema, we take on a capacity for expression that currently has no real affinities or structures. The imagination that…
Cinema Sabaya, Israel’s Oscar submission this year, confronts the political in a manner both predictable and insidious. Let’s address the latter accusation first, as it…
Skinner Myers’ feature debut is a serpentine construct, a vision of subjectivity that embraces both virtuousness and transgression, emphatic in its depiction of self-destruction. The…
The tenets of toxic masculinity are tried and true, displayed in manifold methods of patriarchal oppression, and specifically in conjunction with a process of internalized…
There are brief glimpses of confounding breadth present in JUNG_E, most cogent when projected across the extensive digital dreamscape that is this world’s reality. Director…
Properly encircling modern spheres of film analysis and critical study, documentary ethics are unfurling through heated dialectical discourses, which seek to question the materialist functions…
“A nation that doesn’t know its past, has a dull present and a future shrouded in fog.” So opens Alon Schwarz’s newest participatory documentary film,…
Corridors of Power is rooted in ideological ambivalence and provides a platform for imperialist voices to design history around their perspective. Israeli documentary filmmaker Dror Moreh,…
Four Samosas cribs too liberally without any understanding of how to integrate such influences. At the risk of seeming belligerent or otherwise unfair, Ravi Kapoor’s sophomore…
Most viewers, though not equipped to discern the problematics of representing indigenous communities they aren’t part of, are still able to quite meaningfully evaluate how…