In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Head Curator Ursula Grisham discusses the latent politics of Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Palme d'Or winning feature Winter Sleep.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin reads Aquarius as gently uncovering the conflicts and contradictions of a deeply unequal and increasingly politically authoritarian society.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Ritika Biswas examines legacies of violent colonial mapping in Thailand and Myanmar, necropolitics, and the notion of becoming in Phuttiphong Aroonpheng's Manta Ray.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin examines the political valences of anxiety and uneasiness in various works of Theodore Collatos.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin examines the political valences of anxiety and uneasiness in various works of Theodore Collatos.
Read MoreIn an exclusive memoir for Filmatique, writer-director Lonely Christopher reflects on the decade-long process of completing his feature film MOM.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Tony Torn explores the narrative and thematic complexity of MOM.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Alex Gootter explores notions of salvation, community, and friendship vis-à-vis Will Oldman's character Ike in New Jerusalem.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Head Curator Ursula Grisham examines Pablo Larraín's Post Mortem and Carlos Reygadas's Battle in Heaven through the prism of slow violence, an emergent category of cinema.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin explores legacies of political violence and neoliberalism in Pablo Larraín's Tony Manero and Post Mortem.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Head Curator Ursula Grisham assesses the relevance of Adina Pintilie's Touch Me Not amid the current global pandemic, insofar as the film advances a tool unexpectedly appropriate to the moment—touch as a reminder, a mode of relation to our imperfect, precarious, corporeal selves.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin examines a promising new generation of filmmakers whose work collectively probes legacies of class inequality, racism, and mourning in contemporary Brazil.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Aldo Kempen explores the correspondence between the spectator and the camera as embodied presence in Sebastian Schipper's tour-de-force fourth feature, Victoria.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Ritika Biswas explores the deceptive politics of Court, a film that undermines political binaries, the pursuit of objectivity, and passive spectatorship in a post-truth age.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Ritika Biswas traces invisible vectors of inter-European migrations and linguistic markers of entitlement and power in Ulrich Seidl's Import/Export.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Jacob Browne assesses Hard to be a God as a film that scrutinizes just how impossible it can be to see with any clarity, to maintain the neutrality of the observer, and to watch without being either transformed or petrified.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Aldo Kempen examines Anna Muylaert's Don't Call Me Son as deconstructing a historically contingent conception of adolescence, situating coming-of-age culturally and geographically, and spotlighting a queer(ing) fluidity.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Marisa Winckowski explores the undercurrents of affection and angst that govern Xavier Dolan's precocious debut film.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Ritika Biswas evaluates Neon Bull as a hybrid queer, political, and social performance that eschews the eco-utopian, portraying non-/human worlds as uneasy assemblages.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Ritika Biswas examines violence and the latent feminist politics (or lack thereof) in Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.
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