On Well-Meaning White Women: Josephine Decker’s 'Madeline’s Madeline'
“What you are experiencing is just a metaphor,” a nurse hovering above the camera says in the opening scene of…
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Monia Chokri’s 'La femme de mon frère' ('A Brother’s Love') ventures beyond the hellscape of the self – Cannes
La femme de mon fr è re opens to a combative discussion between four philosophy professors about whether they should…
Pushing at the Wound: Sex in Lola Clavo’s ‘No Love Lost’ and Maria Llopis’s ‘El Belga’
A few years after I first saw it, I wrote a character in my novel Vitrinerie who described Lola Clavo’s…
Watching Bo Burnham’s 'Eighth Grade' with my teenage sister
“It’s like I’m waiting in line for like a rollercoaster,” says 14-year-old Kayla to the very small, potentially even non-existent…
De-fetishising the Commodity: Xiaolu Guo’s 'Five Men and a Caravaggio'
Five Men and a Caravaggio is true to its title: a story of five men, each from different artistic professions,…
On Solitary Companionship: 'A Wild Stream' ('Una corriente salvaje') by Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda at Cinéma du Réel
Nuria Ibánez Castañeda’s Una corriente salvaje (A Wild Stream, 2018) opens on Omar, wading waist-deep off a remote beach in…
After Agnès Varda: A Discussion
Following Agnès Varda's death and inspired by the importance of collaboration in Varda's work, we asked eight writers, programmers and…
Earth Signs: Reading the Post-Pastoral in Alice Rohrwacher's ‘The Wonders' ('Le Meraviglie')
There is a scene in Alice Rohrwacher’s 2014 film The Wonders (Le Meraviglie) in which the protagonist Gelsomina, the eldest…
Wonder in Miniature: Shireen Seno’s 'Nervous Translation'
In Shireen Seno’s Nervous Translation (2017), the world is cut to eight-year-old Yael’s measure. The film unfolds almost exclusively within…
"Only The Lonely": Sex Work under Capitalism in Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber’s 'Cam'
Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber’s Cam (2018) begins with camgirl Lola entertaining her male clients with a series of erotic…
In Defence of the Crazy Cat Lady: Carolee Schneemann’s Feline Muses
I came across Carolee Schneemann’s Infinity Kisses earlier this year during an insomniac’s trawl through YouTube, ten years after the…
"Deconstruct, reconstruct, challenge, celebrate": In Conversation With Barbara Hammer
Another Gaze: Do you remember a moment when you decided to start making films? Barbara Hammer: I was studying painting…
Review: Hikari's '37 Seconds' – Berlinale
A balancing act between dependence and self-determination characterises Yuma Takada’s (Mei Kayama) story as told in 37 Seconds, a film…
Intimate Contact: Images of Suffering in the Work of Carolee Schneemann
“I live for the nude rabble rousing of Carolee Schneemann” These words, written in a recent Facebook post by Lena…
The Precarious Politics of Yorgos Lanthimos's 'The Favourite'
In The Monstrous Feminine, Barbara Creed outlines the horror we associate with images of the interior made exterior. Drawing on…
Which of Hundreds of Selves?: Josephine Decker’s Coming-of-Age Trilogy
Josephine Decker’s world is full of secrets. There is something powerful about her ability to craft characters – mostly women…