Edward Frumkin

Edward Frumkin is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, critic, and podcaster. He has written for The Film Stage, BOMB Magazine, and the Brooklyn Rail. He hosts the podcast reelprint.

Diop is less interested in elucidating the decolonization of museums than in witnessing the integration of a more equitable practice in a neoliberal world.

Mati Diop’s Dahomey
The avant-garde/experimental documentary fest’s fourth iteration centers Palestinian voices and themes relating to resistance and social consciousness.
barrunto (2024). Courtesy Pragmatic Ground.
True/False puts their money in their mouth as the fest’s ideology aligns with their recognition of creative nonfiction as social activism.
Behind Closed Doors. Courtesy True/False Film Festival.
Wavelengths at TIFF returned close to its pre-2020 sample of selections after bite-size viewings during the ongoing pandemic.
He Thought He Died. Courtesy Quantity Cinema.
The genre-bending war and B-horror flick utilizes the colonized as zombies haunting land occupiers in order to evoke the eternal hauntings of colonialism in Angola. It examines the last months of the Angolan War of Independence between the resisting denizens and the imperialist army.
Courtesy Terratreme.
This 71-minute, free-associative collage analyzes the effects of mental health, social media, and sharing oneself with the world. Its mind-boggling structure makes Gush’s time-traveling spectacle mundane and, instead, opens up conversations about how we function and perceive information, leaving little room for blanket statements.
Maat, Fox Maxy. Courtesy Fox Maxy.

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