Death is awful, but the language we use to describe death is arguably worse. Humorist Norm Macdonald, who himself died of cancer, took issue with…
If you were to flip past Marine Atlan’s film La Gradiva on TV (which used to be a thing you could do), you might think…
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…
For a viewer who is familiar with Angela Schanelec’s cinema, in particular the three films she has made over the last 10 years, My Wife…
Aside from the late Jonas Mekas, Boston-based director Ross McElwee is probably the best-known practitioner of the diary film. For nearly 50 years, McElwee has…
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…
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…
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…
The latest installment of Canadian filmmaker Louise Weard’s epic-length project Castration Movie is a departure in a few ways. For one thing, Part iii.ii, or…
Achingly personal films, theoretically, should be everywhere. Technology for the production of moving images is available to more people now than ever before. If one…
There is a small but fascinating subset of filmmaking that we could call the “intentional community movie.” These films involve a small cadre of performers…
The debut feature from Spanish director Lucía Aleñar Iglesias is a different kind of coming-of-age story, one that finds its young protagonist Cata (Zoe Stein)…
Watching La Perra, the new film from Dominga Sotomayor, one may be reminded of those pet adoption bumper stickers that read “who rescued who?” In…
The Quran states that “whoever saves a life, it is as if he has saved all of humanity.” The Station, the debut feature from Yemeni…
The very best instances of allegory are those that allow themselves to be completely ignored. Too often, an artist only pretends to be interested in…
The latest experimental documentary by Lynne Sachs — her 49th film overall — is entirely organized around a formal conceit that simply doesn’t work. That’s…
The Kinshasa-based media group known as Collectif Faire-Part takes its name from their 2018 debut featurette, Faire-Part, about Congolese street performers. Earlier this year the…
Back in the ’90s, Ken Jacobs came to the San Francisco Bay Area for a week of programs and seminars. When attending one of the…
Austrian-born, U.S.-based filmmaker G. Anthony Svatek has an interest in human systems, and how they are put in place to manage forms of chaos that…
In some respects, the “officially sanctioned” of the SWYC Collective’s productions — it was scheduled for broadcast in China, before it was pulled by its…