Review: Limousine (2021)
Saulé Bliuvaité’s short documentary titled Limousine that has just premiered at the national short competition of Vilnius International Film Festival – Kino Pavasaris is an attempt to catch a spirit of limo-riding in a compact, 15-minute format.
Review: Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020)
The difference between Crip Camp and a regular inspirational documentary is the lack of manipulation and pulling the heart-strings in an obvious, almost exploitative fashion.
Review: Courage (2021)
Courage is a foreboding film, especially at the very ending; an excerpt from the re-staged play Discover Love thematizes the events from the late 90s, when a businessman and an opposition leader where kidnapped and executed by the OMON.
SXSW 2021: When Claude Got Shot
Gun crime and its consequences are the subject of When Claude Got Shot, a brilliantly wide-ranging and nuanced examination of a topic that all too often lives in black and white simplicities.
Cool Moves: Minotaur (2020)
Minotaur is a film which evacuates your possible knowledge of it. There are moments, places … but where, when, under what circumstance? It’s best not to read anything about this work before watching it.
Review: One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean (2021)
Wang’s directing, essentially composed of editing short clips together in the rhythmical fashion, is apt for a piece of video-art
Review: Window (2021)
A snapshot photo of the stained glass window from Edgar Jorge Baralt’s childhood home in Caracas elicits memories in his short documentary video essay Window (Ventana) that has just premiered at Berlinale Shorts competition.
Review: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (2021)
Wallace Stevens’ poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is being read integrally, in English, at the beginning of Ana Vaz’ newest experimental film-essay of the same title
