Overview of articles
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Remembering the Pentagons
Sensual, lyrical depiction of the filmmaker’s earliest memories of the overwhelming smells and colours of Iran.Published on: -
On the Invention of the Wheel
Ultra-short, 16mm sequence of a bicycle wheel turning becomes a repeating machine thanks to the power of the loop. Homage to the mechanical art of…Published on: -
A Distant Episode
A meditation on the illusion of filmmaking, shot behind the scenes of a film being made on the other-worldly beaches of Morocco in silvery black-and-wPublished on: -
The Masked Monkeys
Satirising ethnographic documentary, OJOBOCA documents the training of masked monkeys whose performances take us to where shadows, dreams and death mePublished on: -
Bowl
Made when Adachi Masao was a student, the horror-inflected surrealist trip follows a ritual from which the protagonist finds himself unable to flee. SPublished on: -
Harbour City
Hong Kong’s hyperactive fish market in overwhelming colours. Every screening is unique as projection requires two 16mm projectors.Published on: -
The Cow
Groundbreaking, deeply moving Iranian New Wave film in which a farmer takes the place of his lost cow. Astounding camerawork.Published on: -
Schijnsel
Drama balancing on the brink between portraying an intimate relationship between a man and a woman and intimacy in the play of actor and actress.Published on: -
Leçon de vie
A mixture of fiction and documentary, humour and profundity, cinephilia and amateurism.Published on: -
Lucas
About storytelling more than the story, Pijnappel plays with word-image associations to illustrate the gestures made in the act of telling a tale.Published on: