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OF MEDIA AND US: AMSTERDAM’S IDFA ON THE STRUCTURES OF NEWS STORIES
By Julian Ross Our relationship with news media is changing. Our ability to record image and sound on our mobile phones has meant all of
2015.01.23
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2014.12.29
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DESISTFILM 2014 FILM ROUND-UP: THE LIST
Our favourite films of 2014: Editorial commitee, staff, friends and filmmakers. Nicole Brenez Film Critic- France Editorial Committee -Desistfilm The most crucial filmic endeavour since
2014.12.29
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DESISTFILM ROUND-UP: BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS FILMS OF 2014
Our best experimental short films of 2014. From our tally.
2014.12.29
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PANORAMA: STORM CHILDREN- BOOK ONE BY LAV DIAZ
By Michael Guarneri
After From What is Before (2014), a personal recollection of «political cataclysm» Martial Law hitting the Philippines in the early Seventies, Lav Diaz’s new effort Storm Children – Book One tackles natural cataclysm «Yolanda», the tropical cyclone that struck the archipelago in November 2013, leaving thousands of victims and damage to the value of several billion pesos.
2014.12.16
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A CONVERSATION: VERTICAL CINEMA
Julian Ross, Staff Writer at Desistfilm, sat down with two members of Sonic Acts, Lucas van der Velden and Gideon Kiers, to discuss screen formats, scale and the limitations they seek to conquer curating moving image media. The conversation continued with Japanese filmmaker Takashi Makino, with whom Lucas and Gideon collaborated for the film Deorbit (2013) as members of the Dutch media art group Telcosystems.
2014.11.28
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LONDON BY PATRICK KEILLER
By Tara Judah
Robinson, a fictional man we never see, is studying – or perhaps sleuthing –London. We presume the images presented to be his visual documentation, though they might have materialised from the mysterious cognition of our own imagination. Though Robinson is not present, he is not missing either. Our narrator (Paul Scofield) is a companion to Robinson, though it has been years since they saw each other last. And though our nameless narrator speaks the words written by filmmaker Patrick Keiller, he too might be a materialisation of our imagination.
2014.11.28
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ROBINSON IN SPACE BY PATRICK KELLER
By Tara Judah
Our narrator (Paul Scofield) returns. Pairing himself once more with Robinson, this time commissioned to study (or sleuth) England, the examination of space moves ever so slightly from the psychogeographic to the ideological.
2014.11.28
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ROBINSON IN RUINS BY PATRICK KEILLER
By Tara Judah
Contemporary issues like the global financial crisis and climate change have begged for another round of Robinson’s sleuthing; another essay articulate beyond its years from his companion, our narrator. Something to unpack as the next decade tattoos itself onto the landscape.
But Robinson is defeated.
2014.11.28
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MAD MAX BY GEORGE MILLER
By Lauren Bliss
Mad Max is a dystopian road movie. Set in the open, dull plains of rural Victoria in southern Australia Max is a member of a special police force “Main Force Patrol” employed to stop out of control feral gangs that have taken the highway hostage. At war against the pursuit of the police, the ferals set their sights on Max’s idyllic wife and baby son. The gang find their revenge and tragedy strikes for Max: his wife and son are killed when run over by the motor-bike gang. His life now sacrificed to the road, mad Max methodically hunts down the destroyers of his family.
2014.11.27