Paromita Sengupta
Apr 18, 2021
Luna [Philippe Berthelet, Canada, 2021]
Experimental cinema is as old as cinema itself and, indeed, cinema began as an experiment. It is the generally expected of the genre that...
Fung Ying Cheng
Apr 5, 2021
Manasanamaha [Deepak Reddy, India, 2020]
The film follows Surya (Viraj Ashwin) who recounts three relationships from his past...
Sally Roberts
Apr 4, 2021
Rio [Zhenia Kazankina, Russia/Finland, 2019]
From Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho [USA, 1960] to The Florida Project [Sean Baker, USA, 2017], motels have long dominated American cinema....
Sam Briggs
Apr 4, 2021
Reclaiming the Negative [Mike Beech, UK/South Korea, 2020]
Since the Korean war ended in 1953, approximately 31,000 North Koreans have defected, taking the perilous journey across the southern...
Sally Roberts
Apr 4, 2021
Bulldog [Kieran Stringfellow, UK, 2020]
What comes to mind when you think of bulldogs? Faded tattoos stretched across grizzled biceps, multiple-ringed hands wrapped around...
Sally Roberts
Apr 4, 2021
Ghost of a Chance [Manes Duerr, USA, 2019]
Never give up on your dreams. Many of us are told this repeatedly from a young age well into adulthood. Following a soon-to-be father on...
Sam Briggs
Apr 4, 2021
Old Flame – A Super 8 Story [Spencer Hetherington & Jesse Ricottone, Canada, 2020]
Though quick to ignite, once over, relationships can be difficult to extinguish; old flames destined to continue burning long into the...
Sally Roberts
Apr 4, 2021
Fancy a Cuppa? [Lotte Cassidy, UK, 2020]
Scented gel pens, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air [USA, 1990-96] and unwrapping what seemed like endless Fruit Winders, while not universal,...
Sam Briggs
Apr 4, 2021
Hollow Tooth [Samuel Kaperski, France, 2019]
Long after the bullets have stopped, the torment of warfare lives on relentlessly in the minds of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)...
Hope Smith
Apr 4, 2021
Rebirth of Venus [Robin Noorda, Netherlands, 2021]
When poetry collides with imagery, we can get nothing short of a work of art. Rebirth of Venus uses a poem that is striking and combines...