Pain is not a present sensation. Pain is a memory. Like all sensations, by the time information — be it visual, aural, or anything else…
Death is awful, but the language we use to describe death is arguably worse. Humorist Norm Macdonald, who himself died of cancer, took issue with…
If you were to flip past Marine Atlan’s film La Gradiva on TV (which used to be a thing you could do), you might think…
In this dispatch: Faith Lacking Deeds…
It was in December 1923, only months after military dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera had seized power amidst the ongoing systemic crisis of Spain’s Restoration…
A more oblique interlocutor than Matthew McConaughey’s nihilist operative “Rust” Cohle in True Detective, Sawandi Groskind’s Staubwelt arguably dramatizes the central premise of philosophical pessimism…
The question of how to depict violence has plagued, or in other cases not bothered, filmmakers since the medium’s inception. In Felipe Rúgeles Pineda’s new…
In dreams, everyone is equal. Regardless of age, status, or character, we all sleep. In sleep, we all dream. And there, what happens is, for…
There is a playful disconnect between the title of Mokya Shin’s EASTER and its subject matter. Although South Korea’s most prominent religion (after atheism or…
Like his 2010 film Cologne Overnight, Declan Clarke’s latest, Love and the End of Romance in Czechoslovakia, takes an instructive approach. Title cards loaded with…
The portable camera is more accessible now than perhaps ever before, and as a result, the diary film seems to have found its footing within…
If who you are is a sin, what are the consequences of simply living your life? Traditional spiritualism clashes with modern individualism in Nader Saeivar’s…
Seemingly participating in a new trend of grandiloquent, marquee-busting film titles that includes the Mosotho drama Mother, I Am Suffocating. This is My Last Film…
Perhaps more than any other contemporary director apart from Alain Guiraudie, French filmmaker Pierre Creton is committed to exploring eros as a philosophical proposition, the…
For a viewer who is familiar with Angela Schanelec’s cinema, in particular the three films she has made over the last 10 years, My Wife…
Plenty can go wrong on a school bus trip. In Serbia-born director Miroslav Terzić’s third feature, 3 Weeks After, what begins as a teenage hangout…
It’s wise for people in Nordic films to not, under any circumstances, celebrate life events with their family members. Ever since Thomas Vinterberg (re)traumatized hapless…
Incldued in this dispatch: Pure Reason…
Where experimental film is concerned, that subsection we call “structural film” is characterized by a radical transparency. This may seem like an odd claim to…
More than a decade after his first feature, For the Plasma (2014), Bingham Bryant revisits his fascination with images, interpretation, and, crucially, the ways images…
A camera navigates the Mediterranean’s vast cerulean depths. Its gaze is foreign and robotic — an intruder within a dark maritime realm intensely averse to…