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sound, and landscape cinema.
sound, and landscape cinema.
Essays
Notes on Relation and Resonance: Marion Scemama and David Wojnarowicz
kari robertson
Watching the films of Marion Scemema with the invitation to write about them, I feel acutely aware that my entry point to her work is via her close friend and collaborator David Wojnarowicz. Wojnarowicz's work (visual art, writing, and activism) has not left me since I discovered it some years ago...
Noble Ambition: Three Early Shorts by Ivana
Mladenović
nick thomas
It can be painful looking back at your early works, seeing in embryonic form what will later become more articulate and confident, but which now feels clumsy, even embarrassing. In the case of Ivana Mladenović, she is downright dismissive; she had no idea what she was doing, or so she claims in a Q&A after the screening of her own early works..
On Doing Poetry
Akvilė Šlėgerytė
“There is a pit in the garden, and my parents will soon plant around it,” says Vasyl Lyakh about an artillery shell crater in his film Kharaltida; it will soon be buried among other memories that left scars on the land and people. Echoes of it can also be heard in the films...Notes on Toxic Afterlives
Kris dittel
Where to go after the world has ended? What happens after its event has taken place? What are the worlds that have already ended and what forms of life emerge from the intimacy of living with and through the catastrophe? These are some of the questions that...
hera chan
Between the dial tones, colleagues leave messages for Bella on the answering machine. Last September at WORM, Morgan Quaintance presented the programme I Shoved and I Dug and I Hacked Away, including work-in-progress repetitions (2022), commissioned...
Yara Yuri Safadi
Right from the first image of Hira Nabi’s film, we can position ourselves at a shore, at the edge of land, with wet sand at the bottom of the frame. Seen from a low angle, above us is a long chain anchoring a tremendously big rusty container...
Yara Yuri Safadi
While going through Daniel Asadi Faezi’s works, an overwhelming need of documenting seems to speak to me. Each film seems to become a palimpsest, bearing traces of earlier forms of living, of landscapes, of traditions. The filmmaker appears to be producing...