Alex Hutson
Mar 29, 2021
Switch [Reswin Bahas, Australia, 2021]
Australian short film Switch takes the audience on a journey of regret and remorse from the perspective of a gas station cashier....
Thom Carter
Dec 19, 2019
The Painting [Boldizsár CR, Italy, 2018]
Sednaoui spends the time waiting for, then searching out, a mysterious painting, in a lightly avant-garde story she leads with subtle, langu
Thom Carter
Dec 2, 2019
Cry of the City [Boldizsár CR, UK, 2017]
Cry of the City shares its title with the partially remembered Robert Siodmak noir from 1948, a film in its design and making so fastidiousl
Thom Carter
Nov 13, 2019
Zenú [Claudio Marcotulli, USA, 2018]
In Claudio Marcotulli’s kaleidoscopic Zenú, Ignacio (Marcotulli) is a musician creatively blocked by the incessant whistling of the trains t
Thom Carter
Oct 27, 2019
The Painting in the Lobby [Mycle Scheuer, UK, 2018]
The great French critic André Bazin, commenting on the 1951 film Where No Vultures Fly [Henry Watt, UK], observed of one of its sequences, d
Thom Carter
Oct 15, 2019
Screen Test: Part One [Emma Sywyj, UK, 2016]
In the enterprise of creating popular cinema a surfeit of filmed and written material is produced and discarded. One feels that the gleaning
Thom Carter
Oct 15, 2019
Sure! A Myth of Three Creations [Pacco Fanti, Brazil, 2018]
A gnomic animation proceeds in which worm-like lifeforms interact with a higher entity. A piece of paper handed down from on high is passed
Thom Carter
Oct 15, 2019
Chemicals, Like God [Matthew Roe & Kat Parker, USA, 2017]
In Chemicals, Like God, whatever ‘release’ is attained is coded with the displacement implied by the word. The biological imperative to sate
Thom Carter
Aug 20, 2019
Striplight [Alexander Clare, UK, 2018]
The white-collar workspace of the mid-to-late twentieth century is an assemblage of productivity design concepts: spatial, sartorial, conver
Sally Roberts
Jul 31, 2019
Tutu and Pointes [Irina Pizania, UK, 2018]
In present circumstances, London seems an unlikely setting for fairy godmothers and last-minute miracles. Irina Pizania’s film Tutu and Poin