Film
In Conversation
VOLUMES AND PRESSURES
DEBORAH STRATMAN with Aily Nash
By Aily Nash
From an homage to Scottish physicist Michael Faraday’s teachings, to Icelandic landscapes graced by Auden and MacNeice’s epistolary wits, and her continued examination of landscape’s relationship to power structures, “Forces and Gazes,” a three-part program of Deborah Stratman’s films and videos, screened at Anthology Film Archives on July 22 and 23, and featured many of her rarely seen works.
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH DEATH
David France’s How To Survive a Plague
By Steve Macfarlane
Starting with the title, cruel irony abounds in journalist David France’s How To Survive a Plague, a systemic dissection of the NYC-based gay community’s response to the AIDS epidemic and the lessons learned by its principal activists.
BOILING BLOOD
Giallo Fever! at Anthology Film Archives
By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
A young woman enters her chic quarters. She begins to disrobe, preparing for bed. A hand wearing a black leather driving gloves reaches out and cuts the cord for the lights.
HALLUCINATIONS OF THE REAL
Hybridity and Experimentation at the 2012 Festival del Film Locarno
By Leo Goldsmith
The French filmmaker Chris Marker died only a couple of days before the start of the Festival del Film Locarno, Southern Switzerland’s annual sampling of international cinema, festival ephemera, and European premieres of Hollywood films (including Soderbergh’s Magic Mike), but his ghost seemed to loom large over the programmers’ selections.
