New Directors/New Films takes a certain amount of pride in the names they’ve launched, and it’s not unjustified: any festival that can boast Hou Hsiao-Hsien,…
A long take is a relationship. It looks still and it contains and collides all its insides. Details from earlier — in the film, from…
In his book Codes For North, filmmaker and film historian Stephen Broomer posits a history of experimental film as an “art that is a contest…
There’s really nothing wrong with The Permanent Picture, the debut feature from Catalan director Laura Ferrés. It features two skillful lead performances, is exceedingly well…
The sophomore film from Brazilian director André Novais Oliveira is a charming cinematic miniature that observes the unfolding of an ordinary day that potentially evolves…
The inaugural edition of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies closed this past Sunday with the world premiere of Conner O’Malley and Danny Scharar’s outrageous…
James Benning’s 2021 film The United States of America works through 50 landscapes, one from each state in alphabetical order, only to end its credits…
Dane Komljen’s previous film, Afterwater (2022), is a triptych exploring the boundaries of humanity’s relationship with gender and the environment. It begins with an observational…
Mixed media artist Zhou Tao’s new film, The Periphery of the Base, playing now at Cinéma du Réel and totalling just 53 minutes across a…
Kevin Jerome Everson sprays out films like a machine gunner, but he’s got a sniper’s aim. Marbled Golden Eyes, his latest documentary portrait about an…
Master French experimental filmmaker Jean-Claude Rousseau plays with pop music in Où sont tous mes amants?, a title borrowed from a 1935 tune that translates…
“The word ‘Gaza’ means ‘pride’” is a statement softly uttered by Piero Usberti, whose gaze will define our capacity to witness in his feature travelogue-cum-poetic…
Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz are a fascinating couple, and Jacob Permutter and Manon Ouimet’s new film about their marriage, Two Strangers Trying Not to…
Joe McNally says he still sees things through nine-year-old eyes — eyes that, now in their late-’50s, once witnessed the murder of his teenage uncle…
Despite the desperate urgency of the film’s subject matter, Virpi Suutari’s Once Upon a Time in a Forest takes its time. Lush and languid encounters…
Achilles, the debut feature from Iranian director Farhad Delaram, is fairly unusual in a number of ways, often displaying a frankness regarding oppression that is…
It’s hard not to view Knit’s Island as a sort of analogous, lo-fi version of something like Ready Player One. Strip away the virtuousic special…
A curious counterpoint to Celine Song’s much-lauded Past Lives may be found in Mimang, Kim Tae-yang’s feature debut, and the relative prestige of the former…
Even in New York, there often seem to be more experimental films and videos out there than any single venue could ever hope to showcase.…
“400,000 FMG isn’t a wage,” one Malagasy car wash customer admits to documentarian Michaël Andrianaly’s camera in regard to the workers at the wash. At…
Some of the most unique and provocative films of recent times have been works we might call anthropological docudramas. Adopting and expanding the tradition of…