(S8) Peripheral Film Festival celebrates its 5th edition with a special programme over Japanese cinema from its origins until today as part of the activities of the Spain – Japan Dual Year Katsuben – Benshi: ‘Narrators of Silence’, the Japanese silent cinema old tradition will be...
Jack Wormell In Lucia Puenzo’s Wakolda a 1950s Argentine family slowly discover a very human evil in their home, and to their dismay realise they need his help. Partially based on true events, in chilling fashion, Wakolda ponders whether everyone, on a personal level, wants perfection...
Rafa Ayuso y Virginia Pablos Recientemente se han dado a conocer los premios Goya. Como es habitual, y no por demérito de las películas aunque aquí cabría el debate, nombres habituales copan las nominaciones/premios: Trueba, Querejeta, de la Iglesia, Sánchez Arévalo más las raciones de noveles/sorpresas...
Dir Jonás Trueba Review by Jack Wormell YOU ARE IN A ROOM WATCHING A FILM. THAT IS ALL. Los Ilusos trailer The cutting room floor. Celluloid detritus repurposed as cinema fetishism. Black and white off cuts. Sound pick-ups. Flash frames. Boom in shot. Discussion behind camera. This strange, self-reflexive, black and...
Dir Nicolás Alcalá Review by Jack Wormell The Cosmonaut trailer The Cosmonaut plays out a classic love triangle against the backdrop of the Russian space program of the 1950s. Chopped up and playing with chronological order, the film takes a dream-like approach to storytelling, as if the film...
Review by Jack Wormell Film allows for scrutiny, the ultimate scrutiny; with film (or video) the maker can experience the moment, watch the moment later on, watch again (and again and again) and then change it, construe a different reality – and reflect on the original...
Dir: Andread Esteban Review by Jack Worme A while ago I had a debate with a friend of mine about the term ‘sex’ and whether or not I thought the way she, as a lesbian, defined sex was the way I, as a straight man, defined sex....
DVD is made of rust, film of silver (S8) Peripheral Film Festival (A Coruña, Spain) reaches the fourth edition of an amazing adventure which defends the small gauge film preservation. The (S8) Peripheral Film Festival A Coruña reaches its fourth edition, establishing itself as a unique event...
by MARUXA RUIZ DEL ÁRBOL Translation by Ana Penades At the end of February, I saw for the first time real cinema, in 16mm and with two intervals to change-over to the next reel. Like every last Thursday of the month, Ümit Mesut’s hands were in charge of...
A review of ‘The Plague’ by Jack Wormell Some summers ago I was stuck in an interminable traffic jam going from the French Pyrenees into Spain to board a plane back to London. The grating slowness of this particular jam (we were stuck on that road...
"No man is an island, complete on itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the mainland. If a portion of the land should be washed away by the sea, Europe will rest diminished, as if it was a promontory, or...
Article by Lola Clavo Next week, on the BFI monthly strand Essential Experiments, it’s the turn for “Performing Sexuality”: a North American 60s experimental film tasting, revolving around the performance of sex and gender. The three main films of the session are already part of the history...
Adventures and misadventures of a naïf character inside a suffocating atmosphere Interview by Cecilia Díaz Let’s thank that nowadays there is a program such as DO (Denominació d’Origen, Guarantee of Origin), inside the Tv Locals’ Xarxa, that has as a goal and challenge to become a platform...
Review by Jack Wormell Dir: Sean Durkin UK Release: 3rd February Just released this weekend is Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene and I’ve been unable to banish the rhythmic staccato of the title from my mind ever since I saw the trailer back at the end of...
Article by João Serejo, SFFL Festival Programmer. www.sfflondon.org This year we will be hosting the first Student Film Festival London (SSFL 3-5th Feb) and our goal is to fill in the gap between student filmmakers and the industry. As a just graduated Film Curator, I feel that there...
Review by Jack Wormell Playing at the Institute of Contemporary Arts until the 9th February is The Nine Muses, the new film by John Akomfrah, he of Handsworth Songs (1986)fame, which detailed the effect of the Handsworth riots in Birmingham in the 1980’s, and founding member...
Review by Fernando Muñoz Next January 16th the BFI will be showing one of Luis Buñuel’s masterpieces: The Exterminating Angel (1962). This film plays a key work in the heterodox Spanish filmmaker’s filmography. And that is really saying something because Buñuel is one of the most...
ERT ALCO| Filmmaker, Writer, Lecturer and Experimental Film programmer. FILM: Notes of the ephemeral by Chus Domínguez For twenty days the filmmaker Chus Domínguez was hosted in the Eslava’s pension, with the intention to develop an audiovisual documentary about a room in the old town of Pamplona. The resulting work,...
The Unilever Series at Tate Modern REVIEW by Núria Campreciós We are pleased to know that the twelfth commission in The Unilever Series at the Tate Modern is devoted for the first time to the moving image, giving us the opportunity to see, until March 11th of...
Space Bending | Curated by Pablo A. Padilla Jargstorf That morning the sky was clear and sunny. The north wind was crossing the meadows, moving gently the smell of the frost. The silence, resounding. Just the tweet of a lark from the distance. Three hours later,...
It was an unexpected surprise knowing that Pipilotti Rist was invited for the first time to show her work in London. Seeing and living her art was a rather fun than predictable. A woman, with international recognition and prestige, who has reinvented video art and...
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