Cinema, Carcerality and Covid-19: On Watching Brett Story’s ‘The Prison In Twelve Landscapes’ (2016)
How do you represent the prison system cinematically? A certain syntax of images springs to mind: a concrete wall, coils…
2016
(“Gay Panic”): On Fan Subtitles
My love for fan-made subtitles started with the Norwegian TV series Skam (2015-2017). Skam is a drama aimed at teenage…
Review: Notes to Self by Christina Battle – part of Forum Expanded, Berlinale
“MY ALGORITHMS ARE ALL FUCKED UP” I watch the words of this phrase – printed in an all-caps, blue serif font – slowly vanish…
Navigating the liquid cinema of Argentina’s ‘Las Calles’ by María Aparicio and ‘El Futuro Perfecto’ by Nele Wohlatz
When film critic Roger Alan Koza asked María Aparicio, a young filmmaker from Córdoba, Argentina, about the experience of shooting…
Crazy In Love: Transgressive Femininities in Anna Biller’s ‘The Love Witch’
Anna Biller’s The Love Witch (2016) opens with the image of a solitary vintage car driving down an isolated California…
In Praise of Mia Hansen-Løve’s ‘Things to Come’
Does the future look something like the sea? The opening scene of Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come (its French title…