Overview of articles
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Tokyo Tribe
This year, there’s no shortage of crazy grand spectacles from Japan, but only one can be the craziest and the grandest. Tokyo has become a…Published on: -
L’invention du désert
‘Humans have been our parents, our shepherds, and finally our obsolete children’. Sketch of an eery post-human landscape that looks suspiciously likePublished on: -
Man on High Heels
Jang Jin’s fetish actor Cha Seung-Won plays an ultra-macho cop with a deep secret: he wants a sex change. Meanwhile he’s caught between taking down…Published on: -
Titli
Indian entry at Cannes, this remarkable debut deals with a young man’s bonds to his dysfunctional family and his attempt to escape it. Situated in…Published on: -
Swandown
Using a swan pedalo, the filmmakers Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair embark on a water trip from Hastings to Hackney. No wonder people talk candidly…Published on: -
We, in the Year 2000
We, in the Year 2000 deconstructs a 1970s childhood propaganda song, which was written to ‘announce’ the prospect of a brighter socialist future in thPublished on: -
Ash and Money
Tallinn-based theatre company NO99 sets a bigger-than-life experiment. To undermine Estonia’s rotten political scene, they create a fake political parPublished on: -
sequenza
Intimate film based on the composition Sequenza VIII for solo violin. Body and instrument dissolve into abstract details and dance off into the soundPublished on: -
Transformers: The Premake
355 YouTube videos constitute a critical as well as funny investigation into the global big-budget film industry, amateur video-making, and the politiPublished on: -
Murder, Take One
In the near future, Jang Jin suggests, murder trials will be staged as TV shows. An Agatha Christie-like mystery surrounds the murder of a woman…Published on: