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In this essay, an earlier version of which was given as the Daphne Mayo Lecture at the University of Queensland on October 8, 2014, Thomas Elsaesser examines the increasingly strategic role played by art spaces...

ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Jeremy Elphick John K. Emelianoff Kaya Erdinc Eliú Escamilla Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Mark Freeman Hugo Gamarra E. Sachin Gandhi Stephen Gaunson ...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: Peter Nagels Thomas John Nudi Nicholas Page Andreea Pătru Yoana Pavlova Jesse Percival Antoni Peris-Grao Ashley Perry Andréa Picard Fidel Jesús Quirós Paulette Reynolds Stua...

ENTRIES IN PART 6: Maria San Filippo José Sarmiento Hinojosa Howard Schuman Christopher Sikich Matthew Singleton Christopher Small Mark Spratt Brad Stevens Josh Timmermann Gorazd Trušnovec Matt Tur...

  From 2011 until 2015, I taught a course entitled “Documentary Production” at a small liberal arts college north of Chicago. Rather than basing the class entirely on production techniques, I included aspects ...

It is always in the process of being made. It is never finished; never closed. Perhaps we can imagine space as a simultaneity of stories-so far. – Doreen Massey Can there be such a thing as a progressive “s...

“Opposition – a strange word, I don’t like it at all; it is such a grim reminder of times that I thought were over and done with.” At a time in which notions of middle ground and political equilibrium have onc...

The programme at the Short Film Festival is difficult, to be sure, but it always has been. Even the Short Film Festival’s first programme in 1954 already included films that could still have a disconcerting eff...

“Critics are very impressed by camera movement and what have you, but audiences are impressed by performance.” – Bryan Forbes To those familiar with his work, the mention of the name ‘Bryan Forbes’ can conjure...

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ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Raúl Camargo Bórquez Michael Campi Forest Cardamenis Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Daryl Chin Lesley Chow Roberta Ciabarra Cinema For All Martyn Conterio Ada...

ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Russell Edwards Randall Egan Hossein Eidizadeh Kaya Erdinç Ted Fendt Felicity Ford Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Mark Freeman Kenji Fujishima Anders Furze Gavin Ga...

ENTRIES IN PART 4: Andy Hazel Paul Healy Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Peter Henné Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Colin M. Hill Peter Hourigan Cerise Howard Brian Hu Yue Huang Christoph...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: Josh B. Mabe Bob Manning Giovanni Marchini Camia Miguel Marias Josephine Massarella Neil McGlone Tim McQueen Adrian Mendizabal Douglas Messerli Hind Mezaina Richie Mill...

ENTRIES IN PART 6: Fidel Jesús Quirós Stuart Richards Peter Rist Kate Robertson Eloise Ross Julian Ross Paula Arantzazu Ruiz Lisi Tribble Russell Dan Sallitt Maria San Filippo José Sarmie...

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Abbas Kiarostami’s death was announced on July 4. The news reached you during the summer holidays, somewhat out of kilter with the time of year. You almost could have ignored it. But then, all of a sudden, you ...

The rise of populist parties in Europe, Brexit, and Trump: all were mentioned by DOK Leipzig festival director Leena Pasanen in her opening speech as phenomena of a world suddenly more polarised and confrontati...

2016 marked the 17th year for the Jeonju International Film Festival, held annually in early May in a small southern city in South Korea’s Jeolla Province. The festival has long been South Korea’s second major ...

This article discusses cinematic extremes - on-screen sex and violence but also extremes of grain and texture and production cultures - in the work of several women directors closely associated with the undergr...

Beyond I had spent too much time designing my schedule before requesting press tickets for the first weekend of Sundance, and as a result, none of the films I wanted to see the Saturday of my arrival were avai...

The AFI FEST presented by Audi is a great opportunity to catch up with films you have missed somewhere else, while offering Angelinos who don’t travel a showcase for those that, otherwise, may not make it to ou...

As we reflect on the first few months of 2016, it’s already been an emotionally bumpy ride. With the passing of Chantal Akerman - and guest editor Bérénice Reynaud’s memorial dossier in Issue 77 - still fresh, ...

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Celebrating, appraising and dissecting the work of film artists is the great joy of Senses of Cinema. But when such work is demanded by the passing of a major figure, it is overlain by an inescapable melancholy...

The 2011 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Wavelengths program included Mark Lewis’s short film, Black Mirror at the National Gallery, in which two bulky, fully articulated machines – one man...

When people are enjoying a film they say ‘I didn’t see the time go by’… but I think that when time flies and you don’t see time passing by you are robbed of an hour and a half or two hours of your life. Because...

Chantal Akerman’s cinema is within me. This vaguely paranoid hypothesis, it seems to me that I share it with other women (undoubtedly some men as well). From the first time, from my first exposure to the wo...

Foreword In the 13 years before her death, Chantal Akerman completed only three narrative features, La Captive (The Captive, 2000), Demain on déménage (Tomorrow We Move, 2004) and La Folie Almayer (Almayer’s F...

Feature image: Female Directors (Yang Mingming, 2012) “Black cat, white cat – who cares? As long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.” Sichuan proverb, reportedly quoted by Deng Xiaoping With the increas...

The annual controversy at this year’s Locarno Film Festival started well before its screens flickered to life in early August. In fact, a vehement protest, heated debate, and threatened boycott started almost a...

Feature image: The Diary of a Teenage Girl (dir. Marielle Heller) A recent medical report intuits that people who complain live longer and healthier lives; so maybe this report is going to shave off a few week...