By Claudia Siefen
For me, film festivals are promises. Thanks to the Viennale I own one metre of a Peter Kubelka film (it is pinned on my corkboard now): one metre of white frames, cut out personally from the experimental short Arnulf Rainer.
By Mónica Delgado
Dead Europe is a hard novel by the Greek Australian Christos Tsiolkas, adapted by Tony Krawitz in a suggestive manner. The filmmaker takes the second part from the book and changes the places for ones more suitable in order to portray a powerful cartography, an archetype of the Europe that he sees dying.
By Narda Liotine Senility. The concept has changed hands. Cicero, Svevo, Simone de Beauvoir, Bergman, Ozu, and Dwoskin. Dwoskin’s personal De Senectute is a jewel
By Blue Un-Sok Kim
The city of Gyeongju holds a special place in the collective psyche of the Korean people. As the former capital of the ancient Korean kingdom of Silla, the city is referred to as a «museum without walls».
By Catherine Jessica Beed
Lee Eun-Joo‘s short is a curious attempt to arrange a dichotomy between the transient beauty of nature in all its abstractions and the artificiality of manufactured objects. As a brief dialogue between the lateral abstract images of wood and foliage and the composition of sound, close-up controlled shots of trees in various states move at a rapid pace against the rise and fall in the musical structure.
By John A. Riley
Hyun-Jun is an actor, specialising in musical theatre. He is given an opportunity to study acting in America, but before venturing abroad, he returns to the small village where he grew up. Once there he re-kindles his acquaintance with his beautiful cousin So-yeon, acquaintance quickly turning to Romantic desire
By Narda Liotine
To say cinema is a matter of movement tout court is something I personally don’t agree with: To experience film format as a big canvas should imply that one is able to explore every single fragment of a reel and contemplate their unique beauty.
By John A. Riley
Watching an East Asian film, the Anglophone, Euro-Americo-centric viewer comes face to face with an at-first pressing dilemma: whether to incorporate everything one sees into familiar, Western paradigms or whether to defer to the infinite mysteries of the Orient
By John A. Riley
Those who know Tomas Alfredson from his international successes Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are likely to consider him as a director at home with genre material, working with well-known tropes in a highly stylised but somehow unassuming way. His two well known films have a hard-edged indifference that is as exhilarating as it is chilling.
By Monica Delgado
Eighty Letters (Osmdesát Dopisú) by Václav Kadrnka is a film set in early eighties socialist Czech Republic under the ex USSR. The filmmaker has made it clear that this is an autobiographical film and it traces the memories of his adolescence, where his mother organized a future encounter with his father, who lived in London as a migrant.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
ISSN 2311-7451
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