Overview of articles
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A Million Miles Away
Relationship drama’s apotheosis to the beat of a heavy metal anthem from the 1980s. Melancholy as a survival strategy.Published on: -
Walk with Me
The dream, but also the nightmare of a young African dancer. Unchildish puppetry film. Fantasy and reality clash.Published on: -
Communism and the Net or the End of Representative Democracy
A comparison of two popular uprisings, the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution, by film essay giant Karel Vachek.Published on: -
Nebraska
Pa: I want my prize! Son: there isn’t any prize! Old dad walks onto the motorway, towards his ‘million dollars’. Son sighs and gives him…Published on: -
When I Stop Looking
Intimate, intense portraits of exceptional beauty. Keep your eyes open and keep watching, past your first impression, past outward appearances.Published on: -
‘Til Madness Do Us Part
China’s most famous documentary maker spent months in a municipal asylum, where patients are sometimes incarcerated for decades. This four-hour documePublished on: -
The Orphanage
Bollywood-film nostalgia colours the experiences of fifteen-year-old Qodrat, who ends up in an orphanage during Afghanistan’s 1980s Soviet-oriented pePublished on: -
Baba
Captivating portrait of one of the first Turkish immigrants in the cultural sector, interviewed by his daughter amid a fashion collection.Published on: -
Ida
Poland, early 1960s. Devout novice Ida visits her sole family member, having been warned by the Mother Superior. The chain-smoking, cynical Wanda revePublished on: -
Sun Song
Experience pure poetry on a silent bus journey from night into day in Durham, North Carolina.Published on: