A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Student: 10 Famous Directors and their Early Works
Student films are often overlooked as amateur, receiving little to no attention, even within the film community, but these short films often allow young…
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Unveiling JFK: The Ruth Paine Perspective
In his film, The Assassination & Mrs. Paine, documentary-filmmaker Max Good brings forth a fresh perspective on the infamous JFK assassination, telling the story through…
“The Most Overhyped Human Emotion”: Signe Baumane on My Love Affair With Marriage
Signe Baumane calls romantic love, “the most overhyped human emotion.” Her latest film, My Love Affair With Marriage, also concerns itself with love, but takes…
Ken August Meyer on Angel Applicant
After being diagnosed with systemic scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease, filmmaker Ken August Meyer found himself reexamining the works of 20th century Swiss-German artist Paul…
Power and Personalities: Jiří Havelka on The Owners
When you hear the phrase “homeowner association,” what do you picture? Perhaps it is a council of stuffy suburbanites making rules on everything from the…
Living your own (K-)drama: He Shuming on Ajoomma
In Korean, the word “ajoomma” is used to refer to a middle-aged married woman and can loosely be translated as “madam” or “Auntie.” It also…
On curiosities, collaboration and independent filmmaking: A talk with Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley
Strawberry Mansion is a fantasy film set in 2035, following the curious journey of dream auditor and taxman James Preble (played by writer-director Kentucker Audley).…
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: A Meditation on Murakami
Inspired by Haruki Murakami's short stories, Pierre Földes’ debut feature animation film, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is surreal, melancholic, dr…
Director Sara Dosa on ‘Fire of Love’
Fire of Love tells the larger than life love story of Katia and Maurice Krafft, the French volcanologist couple who lost their lives in a…