Overview of articles
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Un film dramatique
Film as collective workshop. Twenty French schoolchildren are given a camera to film themselves, one another and the world around them.Published on: -
Quand je serai dictateur
Once a common medium to record home movies and holiday souvenirs, the memory of Super-8 film is now disappearing fast. Yaël André has recycled a…Published on: -
L’éclat furtif de l’ombre
The horrors of war cast young fisherman Adisu adrift in vast Ethiopia. Forty years later, he is a taxi driver in a Northern European city,…Published on: -
Solar Echoes
Impressively structured ‘science’ film links images of a thermal solar-energy plant to ideas on entropy, energy and time.Published on: -
Thriller
This playful feminist murder mystery, a rewrite of Pucini’s La Bohème, has become a classic in feminist film theory.Published on: -
I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo
Gianikian created a montage of images from work trips to the USA and Jerusalem to accompany his deceased partner Ricci Lucchi’s wonderfullyPublished on: -
Born in Flames
When a black female militant is mysteriously killed, a coalition of women – across all lines of race, class and sexual preference – emergePublished on: -
Une femme, ma mère
Portrait of filmmaker Claude Demers’ biological mother and his search for her, made entirely from (fiction) film clips.Published on: -
Énorme
A famous pianist is unexpectedly pregnant, thanks to her over-controlling husband. This raw comedy bends genders in unexpected, weird ways.Published on: -
La jalousie
The ever-romantic Paris of Philippe Garrel. In this biographically inspired drama, his son Louis Garrel plays his grandfather (Maurice, also an actor)Published on: