Tag: Genre: Experimental
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TIFF 2018
This essay was originally published at Senses of Cinema.
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TIFF 2017
This essay was originally published at Senses of Cinema.
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TIFF 2016
This essay was originally published at Senses of Cinema.
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TIFF 2015
This essay was originally published at Senses of Cinema.
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TIFF 2014
This essay was originally published at Senses of Cinema.
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IFFR 2014
This piece was originally published at Senses of Cinema.
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Anticipating IFFR 2014
I plan to post an overview of the fest. Until then . . . Short Films A rough breakdown of all films with a running time of less than 60 minutes, listed alphabetically. PRO D’Annunzios Hohle [Heinz Emigholz] Creme 21 [Eve Heller] Deorbit [Makino Takashi & Telcosystems] Dot Matrix [Richard Tuohy] Glistening Thrills [Jodie Mack] […]
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TIFF 2013
This essay was originally published at Senses of Cinema.
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TIFF 2012
This essay was originally published at Senses of Cinema.
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TIFF 2012 – Day 5
The Master (Anderson), Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica (Gomes), Birds (Abrantes), and Viola (Piñeiro).
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Nicolas Rey: differently, molussia
Originally published at Senses of Cinema.
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TIFF 2012 – Day 3
Gebo and the Shadow (de Oliveira), differently, Molussia (Rey), and Night Across the Street (Ruiz).
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TIFF 2012 – Day 2
Barbara (Petzold), Mekong Hotel (Apitchatpong), Big in Vietnam (Diop), Sightseers (Wheatley), Student (Omirbayev), and Wavelengths 1.
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TIFF 2011
This essay was originally published at Senses of Cinema.
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James Benning: Naked Repose
Originally published at Mubi.
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By Brakhage
Another capsule review for the Arts & Faith Top 100. Writing a brief introduction to Brakhage for an audience that might not even be aware of the existence of a-g cinema proved to be a really fun challenge. “When film subverts our absorption in the temporal and reveals the depths of our own reality, it […]
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Phantoms of Nabua and a Letter to Uncle Boonmee
There are ways of “decoding” this film, I suppose — the soccer ball as a synecdoche for military armaments, the cinema as documentarian, the hovering florescent light as ghost (or Ghost) — but reducing Apitchatpong’s films to points on a symbolic answer key seems beside the point.
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Wavelengths: Tamalpais and Hotel Roccalba
Short responses to Chris Kennedy’s Tamalpais and Josef Dabernig’s Hotel Roccalba.
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Lumphini 2552
My tendency when describing a film like Lumphini 2552 is to fall back on Modernist rallying cries like that old Ezra Pound chestnut, “Make it new!” Maybe a useful way to think of Nishikawa’s film is as a beautifully defamiliarized — and uniquely cinematic — landscape.
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575 Castro St.
When I spoke to Olson after the screening, she told me how overwhelming it was to visit the set, to listen to Milk’s voice, and to know that it was here — right here — that he contemplated his imminent murder. She’s translated that experience well to her film, which is ghostly and deeply moving. But, of course, it wasn’t right here that Milk made his tape. This is a meticulously dressed set.
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New Directions: The 33rd Toronto International Film Festival
This essay was originally published at Senses of Cinema.
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Pedro Costa’s “Vanda Trilogy” and the Limits of Narrative Cinema as a Contemplative Art
This essay was originally published in Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema (2008), edited by Kenneth Morefield for Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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Nathaniel Dorsky: Manifesting the Ineffable
Originally published at Mubi.
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RR (2007)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Railroad (with apologies to Wallace Stevens)
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2007 TIFF Day 5
The Coen brothers’ No County for Old Men, Anahi Berneri’s Encarnacion, Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and Bruce McClure’s Everytwo Circumflicksrent…Page 298.
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2007 TIFF Day 4
Lucia Puenzo’s XXY, Lee Chang-dong’s Secret Sunshine, Saverio Costanzo’s In Memory of Myself, Hannes Schupbach’s Erzahlung, and Heinz Emigholz’s Schindler’s Houses.
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2007 TIFF Day 3
Naomi Kawase’s Mourning Forest, Bela Tarr’s The Man from London, Jia Zhang-ke’s Useless, John Gianvito’s Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind, and Ute Aurand and Maria Lang’s The Butterfly in Winter.
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2007 TIFF Days 1 and 2
Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Wang Bing’s Fengming, A Chinese Memoir, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge, Peter Hutton’s At Sea, and Sandra Kogut’s Mutum.
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P. Adams Sitney on Film Bloggers
“The other day I was talking to a group of younger filmmakers about a current situation I simply cannot understand. There seems to be a tremendous revitalization of avant-garde filmmaking now, but there’s absolutely no one publishing anything about it.”
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What Are You Reading?
A few words on a few of the books I’ve been enjoying lately.