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Dreamscapes and Masquerades: A Conversation with Abba Makama

Wilfred Okiche
October 2019
Interviews
Issue 92
Abba Makama has taken Toronto twice. The first time the Nigerian director, writer and visual artist was a guest of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), he was part of the country delegation...
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“You don’t get to hate it unless you love it”: Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails on The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Leonardo Goi
October 2019
Interviews
Issue 92
Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails met when they were kids. Legend has it that it happened in a fight, and Fails watched his soon-to-be best friend clash with some teens by the San Francisco projects he’d recently...
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Laying Bare the Anzac Legend: Interview with Köken Ergun

Dirk de Bruyn
October 2019
Interviews
Issue 92
I am talking with Turkish filmmaker and video artist Köken Ergun at the International Film Festival Rotterdam about a documentary that all Australian and New Zealand audiences should see. Şehitler (Heroes),...
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The God of the Camera is a Coloniser: An Interview with RaMell Ross

Leonardo Goi
July 2019
Interviews
Issue 91
Sitting in the dim-lit bar of Berlin’s most iconic theatre, the Volksbühne (a slab of concrete of modernist grandeur located in the heart of the former East Berlin, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz), RaMell Ross...
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Interview: Sergei Loznitsa on his new film The Trial

Lucian Tion
July 2019
Interviews
Issue 91
In The Trial, a film branded by the director “a unique example of a documentary in which one sees ‘24 frames of lies’ per second,” Sergei Loznitsa remastered over two hours of footage he found in the...
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Rome, Open City: A Conversation with Abel Ferrara

Hugo Emmerzael
July 2019
Interviews
Issue 91
Welcome to Rome, where the film provocateur behind seedy New York City classics like Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990) and Bad Lieutenant (1992) has taken up his residence. After a run of films and...
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Encounter at the Editing Table – The Film Archive as a Memory of One’s Own Existence

Vivien Buchhorn
July 2019
Interviews
Issue 91
Dónal Foreman in conversation with Vivien Buchhorn Dónal Foreman’s The Image You Missed is a cinematic dialogue in which Foreman connects his own archive with that of his deceased father, filmmaker...
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Genre, Women and the Romantic Comedy: An Interview with Elizabeth Sankey

Sucheta Chakraborty
March 2019
Interviews
Issue 90
Elizabeth Sankey’s Romantic Comedy, which recently premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), is a documentary analysing the pitfalls and charms of the genre of the romantic comedy. A...
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“It’s Good to Lose Control”: An Interview with Valeska Grisebach

Gerd Gemünden
March 2019
Interviews
Issue 90
Often considered a junior member of the one dozen directors or so associated with the Berlin School, Valeska Grisebach has left, with a mere three features, her own distinct imprint on the much-celebrated...
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Locarno Interview: Ying Liang and his Family Tour

Jaimey Fisher
March 2019
Interviews
Issue 90
The 71st Locarno (Film) Festival was Carlo Chatrian’s last as artistic director, and it offered an unusually strong Concorso internazionale (International Competition section). The Concorso internazionale...
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Recovering the Phantom Limb: An Interview with Jennifer Reeder

Brigitta Wagner
March 2019
Interviews
Issue 90
2019 was the year that the Berlin International Film Festival wanted us all to know that it takes gender parity seriously. Not only did the festival expand, in its 69th edition, the gender statistics it keeps...
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“Godless Mysticism”: An Interview with Amiel Courtin-Wilson

Daniel Fairfax
March 2019
Interviews
Issue 90
One of the things that Australian cinema has for a long time been lacking in is, not to put to a fine a point on it, poetry. But if there is any filmmaker who is striving to change this situation, then it is...
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