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.
‘My Uncle Tudor’, Berlinale review: The illusion of Consent
From the start, Tudor is depicted with a sense of estrangement: through the veil, out of focus, partly hidden behind another person.
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.
‘My Uncle Tudor’, Berlinale review: The illusion of Consent
From the start, Tudor is depicted with a sense of estrangement: through the veil, out of focus, partly hidden behind another person.
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
Review: Ieva (2021)
Working from Plukas’ austere, but precise script, Vytautas and Petronis are looking for an answer to the eternal science fiction gerne question: can androids gain experiences and forge their own identity and personality?
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.
Reflections 16
When I worked in an arts institution, a colleague asked me, “What does ‘festival experience’ mean?” At the time, I thought the question was daft. Surely, working in a building that houses such experiences would mean knowing that experience – something uniquely felt, but, at the same time, tied to a shared environment or atmosphere. […]
Reflections 15: “This is my story, this is my song, praise in my saviour…”
I am as interested in the work as I am in its affect: Allah is not making films for casual consumption, nor is he modest about who and what he is presenting.
