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...
“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...
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),...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
“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...
