In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Rebecca Lynes examines British legacies of the high-rise as social housing, class division, and the surveillant gaze in Andrea Arnold's Red Road.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Head Curator Ursula Grisham explores the concealed architecture of female sexuality as unraveled by Eliza Hittman in It Felt Like Love.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Sam Thompson analyzes a brother and sister's survival strategies in Songs My Brothers Taught Me.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Rebecca Lynes explores Home as allegorizing, by turns, the imposition of modernity, climate disaster, and the cascading effects of masculine anger.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Ieuan Walker examines Stéphane Brizé's philosophical articulation of individual will and responsibility vis-à-vis the historical oppression of women in Une Vie (A Woman's Life).
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Ieuan Walker explores the culturally-specific practice of ulwaluko as a conduit to understanding transnational paradoxes of masculinity and LGBT+ oppression, in John Trengove's Inxeba (The Wound).
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Ritika Biswas examines Maori marginality, cinematic fantasies, and imagined manhood in Taika Waititi's Boy.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Maurizio Marinelli explores the dynamics of urban exploitation and the possibility of renewal in contemporary Thailand, seen through Kirsten Tan's debut feature Pop Aye.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Jarmo Valkola discusses configurations of space and time in Lisandro Alonso's Liverpool.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Aldo Kempen explores how More Than Honey probes the limits of the spectator's imagination, opening onto realms of consciousness and collectivity beyond the human.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Jarmo Valkola explores Patricio Guzmán's pictorialist aesthetics and notions of temporality in The Pearl Button.
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In an exclusive essay, Filmatique's Head Curator Ursula Grisham examines cinematic representation as political exposure, tracing modes of precariousness across indigenous, animal and ecological realms in Jayro Bustamante's debut film Ixcanul.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin contextualizes Penélope within stereotypical cinematic portrayals of female protagonists and the challenges faced by independent filmmakers in Argentina.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin explores the latent political possibilities of La Soledad, a film that posits alternative forms of possession in Venezuela—a country mired both in economic crisis and the social legacies of slavery.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Ritika Biswas explores the political architecture of Miko Revereza’s debut feature, No Data Plan.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Vinodh Venkatesh examines the multiple violences of Colombia's civil conflict and the ghostliness of migration vis-à-vis Oscuro Animal, a film that evokes a full sensorial immersion in the phenomenology of the jungle.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Florence Martin examines Return to Bollène vis-à-vis tropes of the banlieue film, Provençal politics and the impossibility of returning home.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin discusses consequences of colonialism in nations as diverse as Brazil, South Africa and Australia, disparate experiences of the black diaspora and the unifying role of music in Viramundo.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Martin Kudlac explores how Meteors's overlapping layers of meaning embroidered into a hybridizing narrative perform the collective function of circulating memories vis-à-vis a historical event that was intended to be kept secret.
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Filmatique Guest Curator Vassilis Economou's Locarno Review of Meteors explores how the Turkish documentarian Gürcan Keltek makes a political statement with his observation of one of the largest militant actions to take place against the citizens of his own country.
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