Category: Film Festivals
Ecosystems: From Sable Island to Documentary Platforms
On experimental documentary and a visit to Hot Docs, Toronto
Subjunctive Cinema
For Film Quarterly Quorum: on the cinema of futurity at IDFA (International Film Festival Amsterdam).
Indigenous Cinema and the Limits of Auteurism
For Criterion: Why auteurism may not be the best way to appreciate Indigenous cinema.
TIFF 2019: “One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk”
At a time in film culture when auteurism continues to be dominant, and work by Indigenous filmmakers continues to be
TIFF 2019: “The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open”
I’ve seen no better new film this year than the Canadian drama The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open,
TIFF 2019: The Round-Up
Best-of-Fest: Collective (Alexander Nanau, Romania) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, France) One Day in the Life of
FLEFF 2019
I have recently returned from Ithaca, New York, where I spent a few rewarding days at the Finger Lakes Environmental
TIFF 2018: The Afrobubblegum of Wanuri Kahiu’s “Rafiki”
The Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu broke into film culture in 2010 with a wonderful science-fiction short titled Pumzi. The 21-minute