Sundance Film Review: MERATA: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Sundance Film Review: MERATA: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
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Her mission, in her words, was to decolonize and indigenize our screens. With Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen, her son Hepi Mita continues the task. … read more

Slamdance Film Festival 2019 – Boni Bonita

Slamdance Film Festival 2019 – Boni Bonita
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Boni Bonita was shot over three years and magnificently across three formats: Super 16, 16 mm and digital. “When writing this film, I always pictured it with a nostalgic look,” says Barosa. … read more

Film Review: Sorry to Bother You

Film Review: Sorry to Bother You
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Buoyed by its people-power, anti-capitalist, revolution-minded readiness to jolt us awake, Riley’s filmic storytelling debut stays daring and endlessly inventive. … read more

Film Review: Eighth Grade

Film Review: Eighth Grade
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Like eighth grade, Bo Burnham’s feature-film debut will have you wincing in secondhand (and firsthand) embarrassment and laughing through heart-pangs. … read more

Damn These Heels 2018: Close-Knit

Damn These Heels 2018: Close-Knit
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Naoko Ogigami’s thoughtful, pastel-hued family drama Close-Knit follows the self-sufficient and searching Tomo, played by Rinka Kakihara. … read more

Fazilat Soukhakian

Fazilat Soukhakian
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Fazilat Soukhakian’s approach is an active, inquiring one. The Iranian artist-photographer’s work continually records and questions what it means to exist in our contemporary world—what it means to engage with it, to have a stake in it. … read more

Film Review: The Rider

Film Review: The Rider
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Melding fact and fiction, Chloé Zhao’s second feature film, The Rider, remains on the Pine Ridge Reservation to paint an aching portrait of rodeo cowboys among Oglala Lakota Tribe (Sioux) community. … read more

Film Review: Foxtrot

Film Review: Foxtrot
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Foxtrot’s three acts are tonally distinct, each bringing their own lurching plot twists, each grim or violent or (bleakly) humorous in their own ways. But the final chapter becomes oppressive in its reality, and however Maoz employs the hypnagogic and the hyperreal, he asks his audience to ponder war and borders. … read more

Film Review: Loveless

Film Review: Loveless
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From the director of Gloria and Leviathan comes Loveless, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s bleak depiction, simultaneously brutal and measured, of a failed marriage and fractured family—a lost child and a lost society. … read more

Film Review: A Fantastic Woman

Film Review: A Fantastic Woman
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Director Sebastián Lelio crafts an empathetic and surprisingly soft portrait of Marina (Daniela Vega), a trans woman, as she pushes fiercely for a chance to carve out space for herself, a space to mourn. … read more

Personal/Public: Artist Jorge Rojas on Performance

Personal/Public: Artist Jorge Rojas on Performance
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For the last 10 years, Jorge Rojas has focused on performance art, veering between intimate moments and dramatic gestures, drawing from lived and shared experience, intercultural and contemporary identity, and much more. … read more

Film Review: Phantom Thread

Film Review: Phantom Thread
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In Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson’s vision is as exquisite, meticulous and fixated as that of his lead character, Reynolds Woodcock. With superb cinematography, Anderson’s is a ravishing inspection of the pursuit for aesthetic perfection, of love and power and their dizzying, sickly, perverse intimations. … read more