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“Once you find a hidden picture, it seems always to have been there staring you in the face” D.A. Miller (1) “One needs to stop looking at the photograph and instead start watching it” Ariella Azoulay (2) ...

A revealing analysis of this short masterpiece from the perspective of Plato's ideal "forms".

Making a splash on the festival circuit with their feature debut Amer (2009), Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani stunned critics and audiences alike with a fully formed signature style that instantly garnered atte...

Filmed between 1991 and 1994, Nicolas Philibert’s Un animal, des animaux is a gently extraordinary documentary that follows the refurbishment and eventual reopening of the Zoology Gallery of Paris’ Le Muséum Na...

A detailed essay on Alain Robbe-Grillet’s René Magritte-inspired film derived from his 1975 picto-roman of the same title.

Michelangelo' Antonioni's Blowup is perhaps the best known of the many films inspired or adapted from Cortazar's remarkable body of literature. This article considers the important legacy of the Argentine writer's influence on cinema.

  L'année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) (1961 France/Italy 90 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: Terra-Film/Société Nouvelle des Films/Cormoran/Précitel/Silver/Cineriz Prod:...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Jayanth Naga Sai Pasupulati Peter Nagels Virat Nehru Boris Nelepo Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Gabrielle O’Brien Darragh O’Donoghue Wilfred Okiche SvenErik Olsen Andreea Pătru Ant...

Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival survived the pandemic unscathed. None of its editions took an online or hybrid form. However, another issue thoroughly changed the festival. Since 2019, China Film Administrati...

To my daughter Cassandra Before the first consumer-grade videotapes came out in the mid-1970s, it stands to reason that movies were not that readily available for the general public. If you were a well-estab...

A film in two parts. At first, in Mamoushka (2012), we hear a voice but we do not see a body. The voice tells us about the body — it is a body, we learn, that is marked by race and gender, but it is also desiro...

ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Celluloid Liberation Front Jeremy Chamberlin Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Adam Cook Jesús...

b. 16 July 1970, Bangkok, Thailand Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s cinema is one of transgression, of social, carnal and metaphysical border-crossings. Born on July 16, 1970 in Bangkok, Weerasethakul was raised ...

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...

On 22 February 2018, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's Let the Corpses Tan was screened at Ciné Lumière in London's Institut Français Royaume-Uni, with the writer/directors in attendance. The following fragment...

In this scintillating, provocative piece – originally printed as a chapter in Raymond Bellour’s monumental work La Querelle des dispositifs (P.O.L., 2012), a collection of texts focusing on the “fatal syntagma”...

“I am not afraid of the war in Algeria. I am not afraid of decolonisation” Like many other companies, the national oil company of Italy, ENI, produced a number of films, particularly between the 1950s and the ...

The 2016 Wavelengths shorts program opened auspiciously with Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Sangrienta (Bloody Silhouette). Made in 1975 in Iowa City, the two-minute, Super-8 film begins with a high-angle shot of Mendi...

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What is Asia? It seems a simple question, yet the answers vary depending whom – and when – you are asking. Our focus on documentary in Asia in this issue is not, to quote one of our contributors, intended to su...

Entries in part 1: Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Martyn Bamber Lynden Barber Michael Bartlett Nicolas Bartlett Conor Bateman Gustavo Beck Sean Bell Pa...

Entries in part 4: Josh Mabe Miguel Marías Duncan McLean David Melville Adrian Mendizabal Nina Menkes Peter Meredith Mads Mikkelson David Miller Olaf Möller Brent Morrow Oona Mosna Jorge Mour...

Entries in part 5: Fidel Jésus Quirós Robert Reimer Bérénice Reynaud Stuart Richards Jeremy Rigsby Peter Rist Eloise Ross Julian Ross Miriam Ross Dan Sallitt Maria San Filippo José Sarmiento ...

In Lav Diaz’s Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan (Norte, the End of History), a 250-minute musing upon the reality of transgression and the perception of transformation, an old adage springs to cinematic life, its ...

Phenomenological notions of slippery subjectivity and the ‘chiasmic in-betweenness’ of the film experience are beautifully illustrated in Chamarette’s book which engages with one of the richest examples of thic...

A dialogue between Daniel Fairfax and Joshua Sperling I. NYFF & Richard Peña JS: A film festival is always more fun with a friend. So for this report of the 50th annual New York Film Festival we thoug...

He seemed immortal, Chris Marker. For so long the basic empirical data of his life – his name, date and place of birth, his private identity – were all up to rumour, speculation and second-guessing. Mystery...

“Like the white swan’s eye to bear the director’s desire…” - Anonymous (1) I. La jetée and L’année dernière à Marienbad… “Death, where is your victory?” - I Corinthians (2)  The coincidence of La jetée (...

For Guillaume-en-Egypte, Polly and Chris This is a slightly revised version of a paper presented at a symposium devoted to Chris Marker in the late 1990s. Each of the speakers was asked to identify and talk ...

An excerpt on one of the masterpieces of 6os cinema from Mary Wiles' forthcoming book on Jacques Rivette, published by Illinois University Press.

When fire destroyed the negative to Sara Driver’s 1982 debut feature, the film was thought lost forever. And then, the fortuitous discovery of a print amongst the belongings of the famed author Paul Bowles lead to its re-emergence.

“I’m here to make a film about the end of the world... and this seems to be exactly the right place for it.” – Ava Gardner (allegedly) (1) Marguerite Duras’ 1979 short Aurélia Steiner: Melbourne, provides an i...

Numerous contributors from across the globe offer their selections and thoughts on their movie-going experiences in 2010. Readers should find it a fascinating overview of cinema from a multitude of countries and cultures.

A wide-ranging interview in which Gilliam talks at length about his life, his work, the malaise of the film industry, and the state of the world. As expected from Gilliam, it makes for fascinating and sometimes controversial reading.

Too often overshadowed by the fame of the Nouvelle Vague, Robert Farmer gives due attention to the concurrent ‘wave’ known as the Left Bank Group.