Category: Film Festivals
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Ecosystems: From Sable Island to Documentary Platforms
On experimental documentary and a visit to Hot Docs, Toronto
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Subjunctive Cinema
For Film Quarterly Quorum: on the cinema of futurity at IDFA (International Film Festival Amsterdam).
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Indigenous Cinema and the Limits of Auteurism
For Criterion: Why auteurism may not be the best way to appreciate Indigenous cinema.
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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
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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,
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TIFF 2019: The Round-Up
Best-of-Fest: Collective (Alexander Nanau, Romania) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (CĂ©line Sciamma, France) One Day in the Life of
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FLEFF 2019
I have recently returned from Ithaca, New York, where I spent a few rewarding days at the Finger Lakes Environmental
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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