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As this dossier shows, there is a rich and long history of personal filmmaking in Australian independent cinema. The films that belong to this tradition are disparate in many ways, but all are sincere in their ...

How do you represent the ‘unrepresentable’, or even the ‘unimaginable’? This question has been at the heart of a wave of post-Khmer Rouge cinema by second and third generation filmmakers both in Cambodia and in...

After a modest attempt to create a national film industry in bilingual Belgium had run aground in the 1950s, Belgian cinema was split into two separate small cinemas – a Flemish and a Walloon (French-speaking) ...

In the midst of the present devastating economic and social planetary pandemic, the Collectif Jeune Cinéma (CJC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary of existence. Founded by Marcel Mazé (1940-2012) and some fri...

WHOEVER leads a solitary life and yet now and then wants to attach himself somewhere….. he will not be able to manage for long without a window looking on to the street. -Franz Kafka If only someone would w...

In its young history Punto de Vista (International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra) has staked out a distinguished identity, owing foremost to a progressive agenda and an experimental ethos. What might be ...

ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Arta Barzanji Raphaël Bassan Sean Bell Malik Berkati Lukas Brasiskis Samuel Bréan Samantha Broadhead Michael Bro...

ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Nicolás Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Jeremy Chamberlin Allison Chhorn Ian Christie Emily Collins Jordan Cronk Adrian Danks Dustin Dasig Henri de Corin...

ENTRIES IN PART 4: Parviz Jahed Tara Judah Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Dominique Kobler Rainer Knepperges Jan Křipač Jay Kuehner Eugenia Lai Marc Lauria Elaine Lennon Thomas Logoreci Jennif...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: Josh B Mabe Ioannis Makris Randy Malamud Bob Manning Miguel Marías Jamie Mendonça Douglas Messerli Jack McCulloch Jane Mills Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Andy Motz Marcel Mulle...

Living in a time and place that moves faster than ever; ultimately, we end up with less. Lutz Koepnick suggests that subsequently we experience less substance, depth, meaning, freedom, and spontaneity. Koepnick...

In a recent blog post for Columbia University Press – “Anxious Afterthoughts on Anxious Cinephilia” – Sarah Keller provides her latest book with a casual addendum, addressing film in the age of Coronavirus to u...

Morning is a stray thread from which the rest of the day unravels. Before Covid-19 social isolation began, I prevented this reckless unravelling by leaving my apartment each day before noon. This rule prevented...

For all the festivals forced to cancel their yearly rendezvous in response to the COVID pandemic, there’s a tiny contingent that have blossomed under it, digital safe havens put together in the midst of the apo...

As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on lives and societies around the world, the likes of which we have never seen (except in a disaster movie or dystopian fiction), we wanted to investigate further the impact...

Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest running avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America. 1963 was its foundation year. This year would bring 40 programs, and 180 films selected from 3,500 sub...

It could almost be a parlour game to try to talk about Laura Mulvey without mentioning her famous essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, with its more than fifteen thousand citations and the phrase the m...

What are you looking at when you’re looking at me? As Sundance may be one of the last film festivals I will cover for a while, maybe it is a good time to probe what a festivalgoer’s pleasure is made of. 1. Do...

ENTRIES IN PART 1: Asif Ahmed Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Victor Alicea Rowena Santos Aquino Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Barker Christopher Barkman Mike Bartlett Rhett Bartlett Arta Bar...

ENTRIES IN PART 6: Andreea Pătru Yoana Pavlova Jesse Percival Antoni Peris-Grao Fidel Jesús Quirós Christopher Llewellyn Reed Daniel Ribas Stuart Richards Peter Rist Kate Robertson Jonathan Rosenba...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Maria San Filippo Jose Sarmiento Hinojosa Christine Sathiah Adrian Schober Howard Schumann Christopher Sikich Christopher Small Rachel Small Jordan M. Smith Valerie Soe Mark Spra...

One handy way to think about Peter Strickland’s cinematic work is through its pronounced, indeed insistent historical referentiality to the cinema of the past, and, in particular, to an immediately recognisable...

The real is leaders whose relationship to the world is only comprised of statistics, figures and data and have lost all sense of reality and humanity The real is when at 3 years old you ask your mother why t...

On Oct 30, the day before the American Film Market opened in Santa Monica, the Asian Society of Southern California had organised the US-China Entertainment Summit at the Skirball Center, allowing the speakers ...

Mysteries of Cinema, an anthology of the major essays by prolific and internationally-recognised Australian-born film critic Adrian Martin, takes its readers on a whirlwind journey through aesthetics, cinephili...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: Eugenia Lai Marc Lauria Elaine Lennon Raúl Liébana Thomas Logoreci Tara Lomax Josh B. Mabe Ioannis Makris Bob Manning Miguel Marias Jack McCulloch Brian McFarlane Kenta McGrath...

ENTRIES IN PART 4: Lauren Carroll Harris Andy Hazel Glenn Heath Jr. Michael Heath Claire Henry Jhon Hernandez Marissa Hernandez Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Lili Hinstin Jytte Holmqvist Pet...

ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Victor Alicea Rowena Santos Aquino Luke Aspell Martyn Bamber Michael Bartlett Rhett Bartlett Arta Barzanji Raphaël Bassan Conor Bateman Gu...

In 1972, Ms. editor Jane O’Reilly coined the term “click!” in an article titled “The Housewife’s Moment of Truth.” “Click,” she said, referred to “that parenthesis of truth around a little thing that completes ...

Beyond the Great (Digital) Divide Posited at both ends of the aesthetic spectrum (French auteur cinema versus Sundance alum), Doubles Vies (Non-Fiction) and Can You Ever Forgive Me? engage in a conversation ab...

Critic at Cahiers du cinéma, filmmaker, globally recognised auteur. The trajectory is a familiar one, particularly for a French cinephile born in 1930, and thus belonging to the same generation as François Truf...

Of all of the inanimate paraphernalia in my life, the thing that I treasure more than any other is effectively weightless. It is, in one sense, a geometric construction, composed solely of criss-crossing horizo...

Because of the almost insurmountable linguistic barrier between Flemish in Flanders and French in Wallonia, the history of twentieth-century Belgian cinema is best seen as a ‘split screen’ between two language ...

“There’s a square there, there is a world that you create inside there where anything can happen. You can create all these emotions and tell a story and make people scared and make people cry and laugh - and it...

Since roughly the early 1980s, we have lived through a grand mutation in visual culture, one that has accompanied the socio-political transformations wrought by nearly four decades of global neoliberal capitali...

To coincide with the Wonderland exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image running in Melbourne from 5 April to 7 October, we are thrilled to have collaborated with ACMI on a dossier focusing on t...