Overview of articles
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Japan’s Tragedy
Black-and-white, with rice-paper doors. The director knows his classics, but remains a modernist. A father and son wrestle with death and loss. StrangPublished on: -
Manhã de Santo António
João Pedro Rodrigues celebrates the patron saint, architecture and people of Lisbon, bewitched with longing, loss and desire.Published on: -
Four Ways to Die in My Hometown
The effect of people moving away from the Chinese countryside, portrayed in poetic, occasionally stunning and often magical scenes. A student returnsPublished on: -
Zabriskie Point Redacted
A contemplative film that revisits the movie, the place, the subject. This visual essay updates a theme in the original: the individual and the crowd.Published on: -
Polis X
An assortment of humoristic and absurd characters inhabit a utopian city jokingly called ‘Polis’, supposedly designed by Le Corbusier and Albert SpeerPublished on: -
For Love’s Sake
School kids as gangsters, dressed like pop stars. Arty choreographed fights and supplely sung drama. A story like Romeo and Juliet, based on a popularPublished on: -
Two Russians in the Free World
Can the improbable union between a maverick Russian billionaire and a penniless performance artist survive? Who’s in control and why are they singing?Published on: -
memento mori
A meditation on immortality. memento mori is a hallucinatory time-lapse made from over 100,000 photographs from the maker’s life.Published on: -
The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks
Comedy series about the disastrous love life of theatre-maker Arthur Banks. Very cinematic first web series by American network AMC (Mad Men).Published on: -
Greystone
Conceptual film about a murder in the Greystone Mansion in 1929 and exploration of structure in Hollywood films that were actually shot here.Published on: