Submissions for the 52nd edition of Directors' Fortnight are open
Entry deadline for Feature films: March 27, 2020.Entry deadline for Short and medium length films: March 13, 2020.
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Submissions for the 52nd edition of Directors' Fortnight are open
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Interview: Mladen Kovačević, director of “4 Years in 10 Minutes”
How did you obtain the footage for the film? It is basically a found footage film. It is really a found footage film. The term has been used nowadays to excuse auteurs for all kinds of stuff, so every archive film or badly shot film or participatory documentary is often called found footage. This really […]
Interview: Corina Schwingruber Ilić, director of “All Inclusive”
Freshly crownd as the best film in the shorts competition of the IceDocs, Corina Schwingruber Ilić’s „All Inclusive“ continues on its path of sucess, having already bagged the Golden Dove at the Dok Leipzig, Best Live Action Film at PÖFF Shorts, Best Short Film at Kustendorf Film & Music Festival, Best Documentary at Tampere and […]
Documentaries
Film Review: Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019), by Midge Costin
Part monument to the great pioneers of sound, part instructional film, Midge Costin’s Making Waves: the Art of Cinematic Sound is an entertaining, California-centric primer on the often neglected world of sound designers, Foley artists and mixing engineers.
Shorts
Program Overview: “Walls” (Uppsala International Short Film Festival)
For 38 years, the Berlin Wall divided eastern and western part of the city, East and West Germany, Eastern and Western Block that were engaged in Cold War, and communist and capitalist system with their respective lifestyles. Until it fell, 30 years ago, signalling the victory of one side. That kind of a round anniversary […]
Experimental Films
Review: Rihaction (2019) by Neil Young
It takes more than a plain interest in experimental films to go to see Rihaction, a debut feature-length film by the British film critic, curator and programmer Neil Young.
Review: Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019) by Stanley Nelson
Stanley Nelson’s deceptively dry portrait of musical genius Miles Davis, produced as part of PBS’s time-honoured American Masters series, gives enough food for thought to inspire further investigation by casual Jazz…
Review: The Golden Angel: Terror on Campus (2019), by Alain Vézina
At first glance, Angelo Dorado (played by Jason Roy Léveillée), aka the Golden Angel is just a regular guy (aside his always present mask) who likes to read about Mexican wrestling scene before taking a shower to …
Open Calls
Submissions for the 52nd edition of Directors’ Fortnight are open
Entry deadline for Feature films: March 27, 2020.
Entry deadline for Short and medium length films: March 13, 2020.
