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'Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other' Review: Love And Resentment
'Two Strangers Trying ti Kill Each Other' ( Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter, 2024); Image courtesy of Margaret London. The documentary...
Millie McDougall
3 days ago3 min read

Opening Scenes: In Conversation with Against The Grain Visuals, Maker of ‘Blackstar, Until The End’
'Blackstar, Until The End' (Against The Grain Visuals, 2024) I sat down with Filmmaker Joseph White, or Against The Grain Visuals, to...
Laura Mihaela Cretu
Dec 19, 20248 min read


'From Ground Zero': Urgent Cinema
A review of 'From Ground Zero', an anthology of 22 short films created by Palestinians in the aftermath of October 7th
Keyuri Gawde
Dec 8, 20243 min read

‘Coconut Head Generation’ Review: A Young Person’s Guide To Activist Filmmaking
The film opens in a distant, grainy, black-and-white past, showing us the opening ceremony for the permanent buildings of Ibadan...
OisÃn McGilloway
Apr 22, 20244 min read


In Conversation With Sav Rodgers, Director of 'Chasing Chasing Amy'
When Sav Rodgers was twelve years old, he encountered Chasing Amy, Kevin Smith’s 1997 independent slacker comedy about a cisgender...
Blake Simons
Apr 9, 202412 min read

In Conversation with the Makers of 'Coconut Head Generation'
Alain Kassanda’s latest documentary Coconut Head Generation follows the Thursday Film Series, a movie club at the University of Ibadan,...
OisÃn McGilloway
Mar 21, 20248 min read


Opening Scenes: Elif Gönen, aka FORLUCK
A couple of weeks ago, visual artist Elif Gönen, aka FORLUCK, whose latest documentary Please Be Happy appeared at BFI Future Film...
OisÃn McGilloway
Mar 11, 20245 min read

‘Trading Places’ at Barbican: The Decline And The Fall of London Landscapes
When looking at archives of London’s streets and neighbourhoods, it is impossible not to feel an irresistible nostalgia for a time that...
Marine Pellissier
Feb 22, 20243 min read


'Samsara' Review: Visually Delicious, Structurally Intriguing, And Textually Profound
In Buddhist philosophy, the term ‘Samsara’ refers to the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, within which all living beings are bound by...
Ariunzaya Batkhuyag
Feb 13, 20243 min read


‘Imagine the Sound’ At Barbican Cinema: Disdain For The Known
A quick search on Google defines free jazz as an ‘improvised style of jazz characterised by the absence of set chord patterns or time...
Leda Schenke Gonis
Jan 19, 20245 min read
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