Review: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (2021)
Wallace Stevens’ poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is being read integrally, in English, at the beginning of Ana Vaz’ newest experimental film-essay of the same title
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Review: More Happiness (2021)
The conversation about love and happiness between mother and daughter, 1st and 2nd generation Chinese immigrants in the US, is at the centre of Livia Huang’s short film More Happiness that premieres at the Berlinale Shorts competition.
Review: Terranova (2021)
Terranova is an essay-type of documentary whose smoothness regarding of the topics and the visuals flow resembles a masterful DJ session.
Review: The Witches of the Orient (2021)
One of the greatest sports success stories is that of the Japanese women’s volleyball team, so-called “The Witches of the Orient” and their unbelievable winning streak of 258 games in the early 60s
Review: Lemongrass Girl (2021)
Working with the smart, low-key script written by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Pom Bunsermvicha shows the absurdity of the lemongrass girl ritual in an unpretentious, almost casual manner.
Review: Happy Valley (2020)
Looking at the scenes from Simon Liu’s newest work, the short experimental documentary Happy Valley, the viewer might ask themselves a rhetorical question about the filmmaker’s ironic intentions.
IFFR Review: earthearthearth (2021)
The newest experimental short film by Daïchi Saïto, earthearthearth, premiering at IFFR’s Ammodo Tiger Short Competition can be regarded as a journey from the realm of orientation to the realm of meditation.
Review: Tellurian Drama (2020)
The line between facts and fiction has been thoroughly blurred in Riar Rizaldi’s short film Tellurian Drama that is centred around an abandoned radio station in Indonesia, built in the late colonial times and ransacked and left during the World War Two.
Review: The Hole’s Journey (2021)
A simple and smart piece of artistic activism, cleverly envisioned to mask its political commentary with benign intentions and absurdity gets stranded by different circumstances, personal and political, local, international and global.
