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"THERE WAS A REAL-LIFE BLACK WOMAN IN MY COMPUTER": JAZMIN JONES & OLIVIA MCKAYLA ON SEEKING MAVIS BEACON
For a generation of early Millennials and late Gen Xers growing up in North America on the cusp of the dot-com bubble, the Mavis Beacon...
Agnès Houghton-Boyle
Jul 2


"NO ONE WAS TELLING THEIR STORIES": LOUISE COURVOISIER ON THE RURAL ADOLESCENCE OF 'HOLY COW'
Holy Cow is fundamentally a coming-of-age story shaped by very a specific political and economic landscape. If Mathieu captures the generati
Agnès Houghton-Boyle
Apr 6


MALQUERIDAS: NOTES ON 'THE UNLOVED'
In conversation with the devastating prose writer Fernanda Melchor for Granta , her English translator Sophie Hughes recalls a few...
Agnès Houghton-Boyle
Dec 7, 2024


"WHAT IS IT LIKE TO HAVE SEX AT 70?" ANTONELLA SUDASASSI FURNISS ON 'MEMORIES OF A BURNING BODY'
Antonella Sudasassi Furniss ’s second feature, Memories of a Burning Body , has opened to UK cinemas this week . In 2024, it took home...
Agnès Houghton-Boyle
Nov 20, 2024


THEN AND NOW: NOTES ON CIARÁN CASSIDY'S 'HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR'
Ciarán Cassidy ’s Housewife of the Year , which premiered at CPH:DOX , won Best Irish Feature Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh ...
Agnès Houghton-Boyle
Nov 19, 2024


"YOU LOSE ALL SENSE OF TIME IN THE MONASTERY": ALYS TOMLINSON AND CECILE EMBLETON ON 'MOTHER VERA'
Filmmakers Alys Tomlinson and Cécile Embleton discovered Vera, the subject of their recent documentary film Mother Vera (2024) in...
Agnès Houghton-Boyle
Nov 1, 2024


SONIA BOYCE: AN AWKWARD RELATION & LYGIA CLARK: THE I AND THE YOU AT WHITECHAPEL GALLERY.
Instead of the gallery being a place of observation and a one-way communication from artist to those experiencing their work, it becomes...
Flora Guildford
Oct 29, 2024


ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE: ISABELLA JOSEPHINE LEON'S DARK ROMANCE
"I’m still a kid inside, and have not wavered from my childhood tastes and ideas,” says Isabella Josephine Leon , the up-and-coming...
Raegan Rubin
Oct 28, 2024


'A SUDDEN GILMPSE TO DEEPER THINGS': MARK COUSINS ON WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM
Something that Mark Cousins shares with the late modernist painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham – the subject of his latest documentary – is...
Agnès Houghton-Boyle
Oct 2, 2024


TONIGHT ON THE MENU: DREAM SEQUENCE | A TASTE OF LONDON’S NEW EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB
Courtesy of @dream_sequence_london via Instagram Imagine your ideal ten-course meal — a sensory journey of flavours, aromas, and visuals,...
Nastia Svarevska
Sep 17, 2024


VIETNAM'S AVANT-GARDE CINEMA SHINES AT THE SAIGON EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
Agnès Houghton-Boyle reviews the playful, independent post-lockdown films of the Saigon Experimental Film Festival , curated by Phạm...
Agnès Houghton-Boyle
Aug 26, 2024


POST-IRONIC FEMININITY RULES IN THE TUMBLR-ESQUE FEVER DREAM OF 'OBSIDIAN UPSET'
Embracing Bauman’s state of liquid modernity, Obsidian Upset 's artists play around with the mutable nature of identity, navigating and...
Arina Baburskova
Aug 26, 2024


GORAN DEVIĆ ON 'PAVILION 6' AND COVID CINEMA
Taking his camera into the heart of chaotic queues winding through the city centre, Goran Dević captures poignant moments of connection...
Agnès Houghton-Boyle
Jul 10, 2024


"THE ATROCITIES WERE REALLY SHOCKING TO HEAR": MEENA NANJI & ZIPPY KIMUNDU ON 'OUR LAND OUR FREEDOM'
In their documentary Our Land Our Freedom (2023), filmmakers Meena Nanji and Zippy Kimundu document Wanjugu Kimathi's work between 2016...
Agnès Houghton-Boyle
Jul 5, 2024


SHEFFIELD DOC FESTIVAL WINNER MAJA NOVAKOVIĆ ON 'AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE WHO WILL COME KNOCKING'
Maja Novaković's At The Door Of The House Who Will Come Knocking was awarded the Grand Jury Award for the International Competition at...
Agnès Houghton-Boyle
Jun 28, 2024


"THE FESTIVAL ISN'T JUST A FOUR MONTH PROCESS": TANIA DELGADO ON DIRECTING THE 45TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NEW LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA
Tania Delgado is the director of the renowned Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (International Festival of New Latin...
Agnès Houghton-Boyle
Apr 5, 2024


INTERVIEW WITH KATARZYNA PERLAK: "ART ALLOWS YOU TO MOVE FORWARD"
What remains vivid in my memory from the pandemic is the experience of forgetting how to speak. Literally, but also figuratively, given...
Nastia Svarevska
Mar 28, 2024


FANNY LATOUR-LAMBERT’S BEAUTIFUL CREATURES
Fanny Latour-Lambert's photography exists on a plane of cinematic obscurity. From figures that contort across the lens to romanesque...
Raegan Rubin
Mar 13, 2024


YORGOS LANTHIMOS’ 'POOR THINGS': WHEN DID SEX SCENES BECOME A BAD THING?
Little can be said of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things that hasn’t already been talked about in some form already. Most debates revolve...
Jethro Robathan
Feb 22, 2024


ACCORDING TO STANLEY SCHTINTER, WE GET THE FILMS WE DESERVE
On the 22nd of November, the 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the first fifteen minutes of Burt Topper's War is...
Agnès Houghton-Boyle
Jan 29, 2024
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