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…
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Who gets to be ‘the people’? Astra Taylor’s ‘What Is Democracy?’ and Gabrielle Brady’s ‘Island of the Hungry Ghosts’
An impromptu interview on a beach in Miami. A casually dressed white woman in her thirties is perched comfortably on…
Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger: A Canadian Wake-Up Call —TIFF
“Racism and discrimination is what’s keeping services away from our children and that’s the bottom line.” So says Carolyn Buffalo,…
Fate and the State: Sophie Deraspe’s ‘Antigone’ —TIFF
Sophie Deraspe’s film adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone updates the central themes of the original – family, exile, state power and…
On Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s ‘The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open’ —TIFF
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open follows a day in the life of…
Monia Chokri’s ‘La femme de mon frère’ (‘A Brother’s Love’) ventures beyond the hellscape of the self – Cannes
La femme de mon frère opens to a combative discussion between four philosophy professors about whether they should pass a…
In Search of a ‘Feminist Sensibility’: Two Shorts By Deborah Stratman and Lynne Sachs
Vever (for Barbara) dir. Deborah Stratman, 2019 Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor dir. Lynne Sachs, 2018. When the Bay Area lesbian…
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…
Wandering across Frames: Moyra Davey and the Feminist Essay Film
In ‘Walking with Nandita’, an essay for documenta 14 composed of photographs and fragments of text, Canadian artist Moyra Davey…