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Reflections 4

I have started watching films, exploring artwork and understanding the world in the same way that I do my grocery shopping. One ...

Reflections 3

I don’t watch much, anymore; binge-watching makes me ache and devouring cinema like popcorn is too loud and too crunchy for my ...

The Process is the Practice

In Sachs’ work all I find – and all I want to find – is respectful practice. There is more than just ...

Screenshot from the music video "Über Nacht"

Austrian Music Video Award goes to Rupert Höller

The winner of the Austrian Music Video Award -is Rupert Höller for his black & white, 4 minutes long video "Über Nacht" ...

New deadline for entries for the 39th Uppsala Short Film Festival

The deadline for the film submissions for the 39th Uppsala Short Film Festival has been extended to June 30th.

Reflections 4

Reflections 3

The Process is the Practice

Austrian Music Video Award goes to Rupert Höller

New deadline for entries for the 39th Uppsala Short Film Festival

Interviews

Interview: Monica Mazzitelli, the director of “The Wedding Cake” (2020)

With her latest short “The Wedding Cake”, Monica Mazzitelli won the international short film competition at the RVK feminist Film Festival, which kicked off in January this year.

Interview: Eydís Eir Brynju-Björnsdóttir, the director of Islandia (2018)

Eydís Eir Brynju-Björnsdóttir studied directing and script writing at the Icelandic Film School, and has gathered experience in the film production. With her debut short film Islandia, a very personal take on her own traumatic experience, she steered controversy in her home country by openly addressing the sensitive topic of rape…

Documentaries

Review: Forman Vs. Forman (2019)

For casual fans and novice film scholars, Forman Vs. Forman offers a concise, compelling introduction to the feted Czech director. But the breezy tone and skimpy detail may frustrate more experienced cineastes craving a more thorough, insightful, investigative bio-documentary. F

Shorts

Review: Sweat (2020)

The influences Brès looks up to are numerous and pretty clear to identify, from nature-themed to observational school of documentary filmmaking, with a dash of attraction of the fiction films.

Experimental Films

Zeus Machine: The Invincible (2019)

Like most experimental collage films, Zeus Machine is an uneven patchwork. Some sections feel too slight and open-ended, others overly cryptic and wilfully obscure.

‘No Victors’ Breaks Ground on Necessary Historical Discourse in Nigeria

The camera angles are sparse and direct, providing as little interference as possible to hint at the seriousness of the discourse and avoid distracting flourishes. There are no voiceovers or talking heads.

Review: A Peaceful Divorce (2020)

Sidi Wang is a Chinese filmmaker living and working in Beijing and Austin, Texas. The quarantine order got her while she was in China, living with her mother, brother and step-father during the day and spending her nights in Skype talks with her father, whom she missed.