About Some Meaningful Events: African Cinema and 50 Years of FESPACO

By Marius Hrdy

JUL-AUG 2019 | Film

In a festival where a major part of the lineup consists of the newest restorations of “Old Hollywood” filmmaking, recent editions of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna have been marked by a refreshing turn towards lesser known cinemas and film industries that are no less interesting.

Subterranean Cinema: A Return to the Geo-Imaginaries of the Hollow Earth

By Erin Espelie

DEC 19-JAN 20 | Film

We are in desperate search of spaces that offer us greater degrees of darkness—be that the cinema or underground caverns or possibly the greater cosmos. These alter-territories hold the promise of maximum separation from the 7.5 billion other people on the planet. In gravitating toward sites of absence, specifically the mine, the cave, the hole, where cameras are insufficient tools of capture (if not rendered entirely useless), film artists have found overlapping themes that go beyond traditional ecological concerns of diminishing resources and compromised landscapes.

My History With History

By Kashana Cauley

MAR 2019 | Critics Page

Until a few years ago, I wasn’t a fan of history. I didn’t hunt down explanations of the present from the past.

Please Glauber Don’t Hurt ’Em: Glauber Rocha’s On Cinema

By Steve Macfarlane

NOV 2019 | Film

One of many sad questions following the implosion of New Yorker Films was that of their impressive (and consistently cultivated) catalog of works from Brazil, including masterpieces by Cinema Novo auteurs such as Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Carlos Diegues and, most famous of all, Glauber Rocha.