Where experimental film is concerned, that subsection we call “structural film” is characterized by a radical transparency. This may seem like an odd claim to…
More than a decade after his first feature, For the Plasma (2014), Bingham Bryant revisits his fascination with images, interpretation, and, crucially, the ways images…
A camera navigates the Mediterranean’s vast cerulean depths. Its gaze is foreign and robotic — an intruder within a dark maritime realm intensely averse to…
Given that present-day existence has been thrown into disarray by — in roughly chronological order — the smartphone, COVID-19, and the resurgence of fascism, how…
“I have to find a way.” This opening voiceover, soothing yet fraught with anxiety, doesn’t initially sound ironic. It sounds sincere, and fitting, as the…
Shireen Seno’s short film you dreamt you saw yourself but couldn’t see your face begins with a small video image situated in the center of…
A longtime favorite filmmaker at InRO, this writer had only seen one work by Nicolás Pereda, Minotaur (2015) — a surreal exploration of stasis and…
Like few other working filmmakers, Ted Fendt has created for himself a functioning cinematic universe, full of characters seeking creative and intellectual stimulation and answers…
As they so often do, sixtysomething Bulgarian couple Marina (Tanya Shahova) and Gosha (Ivan Savov) spend their evening in front of the television after a…
Reverberation usually describes the phenomenon of a reflected and delayed sound impulse that, attenuated to the perceiving ear, has diverted into different manifestations from its…
The sun rises every morning with the same indifference. It shines over moments of happiness and devastation alike, untouched by the private tragedies unfolding beneath…
Spilling over with indeterminate parody-cum-reenactments of ’20s, ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s motion picture nostalgia, this first real effort in galvanizing the slapstick potential of the…
Despite crediting the scholar and film critic Andrei Rus as a co-director, the latest and possibly trolliest Radu Jude film is really more of an…
At 87 minutes, Jean-Claude Rousseau’s Last Stop for the Circular Ticket is the longest film he’s made since his 1995 masterpiece The Enclosed Valley, but…
One of the hardest things to pull off in comedy is having characters who are knowingly foolish without also dragging the film around them into…
Guy Maddin’s Careful is newly restored and once again bringing its unique, alpine, psycho-sexual mania to cinemagoers, who are perhaps a little better prepared for…
Major credit is due to KVIFF for continuing to world-premiere some of the roughest documentaries from the Ukrainian frontline. Two years ago, the festival unveiled…
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World, an entry in the PBS series American Masters directed by Sasha Waters (Gary Winogrand: All Things…
Hidden in a nook of the Île d’Yeu cemetery, the grave of Marshal Philippe Pétain has grown into a symbolic site of contention for the…
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…
Celebrating its 80th this year, Karlovy Vary has long been one of Europe's foremost film festivals, an essential waypoint on any cinephile's continental wanderings. Balancing bold stewarshsip of world premieres and careful curation of the best the international circuit has to offer, KVIFF always offers attendees both the thrill of discovery and a ticket to
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