On September 13, 2022, Masha Amini, a young 22-year-old girl was arrested by the Iranian religious morality police for allegedly not wearing her hijab in…
British filmmaker Ben Rivers is competing in the 2024 Locarno Film Festival with his newest film, Bogancloch. It is Rivers’ second feature about Jake Williams,…
In his introduction on his website, director Peter Waktins states that “The production and the organizing of [The Journey was] on a scale that I…
Early in India Donaldson’s Good One, a balanced hiking trip of four is quickly cut down to three, shifting the dynamics for teenager Sam (Lily…
Like an oak presiding over what came before and what might follow, Kier-La Janisse’s documentary study Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (2021) roots folk horror…
Where does a song come from? And how does it happen? In November 2021, driven back inside to obsess about air particles again thanks to…
In the canon of the silent cinema, only once has it been truly silent. The purifying beam of Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc,…
Let us begin as I started: in media res. Two moths, born far too late to appear in the flurry of wings that made up…
Since the release of her 1995 debut feature My Sister’s Good Fortune, Angela Schanelec has become recognized as one of the most unique and significant…
Lucy Kerr’s debut feature Family Portrait is a startling discovery. An elliptical puzzle of a film that circles around a mystery that is never answered,…
Alex Ross Perry first made a name for himself in an emerging class of young New York filmmakers in the late aughts. What followed was…
In town to open the 34th Singapore International Film Festival with her debut feature, Tiger Stripes (2023), Amanda Nell Eu settled into a cafe at…
“I see so much, burns my eyes.” – Godflesh, “Xnoybis” (1994) “I can see, I can see, I’m going blind.” – Korn, “Blind” (1994) In…
The 1960s to early 1970s was a truly utopian moment. In the hangover of Imperial Japan, the concomitant decolonization of the “Third World,” and the…
Appreciating the work of Barry Gerson in recent years has been somewhat difficult. His work remains noted in high regard when it’s shown and mentioned,…
Kit Zauhar should probably be one of the shining bastions of American independent cinema today. Her two features to date represent two forms of the…
Cinematographer and film critic Carson Lund moves to the director’s chair with Eephus, a laid-back comedy following a ragtag group of men as they play…
s1e1 – “Pilot” I have been thinking about Robin Wood and playing foxtail in a front yard that smelled like Sugar Maple leaves and garage…
Your films have been widely described as having thematic preoccupations with the future and its anxieties, but at the same time they also are imbued…
Long whispered about by in-the-know cinephiles but seldom seen in American theaters, Greek director Antoinetta Angelidi’s long overdue U.S. debut comes courtesy of Prismatic Ground…