Issue 56 | October 2010
The Skladanowsky Brothers: The Devil Knows
Like Thomas Edison, the Lumiere Brothers, and many others, Berlin based pioneers the Skladanowsky Brothers stake a claim in the amorphous origins of the cinema.
Iván Zulueta’s Cinephilia of Ecstasy and Experiment
Little known outside his homeland, Spanish filmmaker and visual artist Iván Zulueta’s career spanned the Franco and post-Franco era. In that time he made a
Z man, or: how do you solve a problem like Rico Ilarde – (A horror filmmaker? An indie artist? Pinoy? Pinoy?)?
Where does Rico Ilarde sit in the Filipino film scene? And, how does one account for the myriad of influences (cinematic and cultural) that course
Rules of the Game: Watching the World Cup Final in a Tehran Cinema
Spain v. Holland projected on to a movie screen reveals the “audience’s bare face” in a way that is lost to spectators at a movie
Cocksucker Blues: The Rolling Stones and Some Notes on Robert Frank
The recent release of the Stones remastered early seventies album, Exile on Main Street, has occasioned the resurfacing of all manner of detritus from the
How to Change the World: An Interview with Leo Berkeley
Once, and appropriately, Melbourne based filmmaker Leo Berkeley went under the moniker of “last of the independents”. Having shaped a decades-long body of work on
“A Gentle Voice in a Noisy Room”: An Interview with New Zealand Filmmaker Gaylene Preston
Attentive to oral histories, Gaylene Preston has fashioned a distinctive body of work over the course of decades, inclusive of her most recent film Home