I’ve recently published another review for Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media, an Irish publication connected with University College Cork, looking at a collection exploring various aspects of the Anthropocene through the lens of…
I recently published a review for Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media, an Irish publication connected with University College Cork, looking at a 2022 book on Suzuki Seijun by William Carroll. My article explores…
Este texto fue escrito originalmente para un programa que curé para la edición 2023 del Choreoscope Dance Film Festival en Barcelona. El programa se centró en la danza japonesa butoh y contó con seis cortometrajes…
This text was originally written for a programme I curated for the 2023 edition of the Choreoscope International Dance Film Festival in Barcelona. The programme’s focus was on the Japanese dance form butoh, and featured…
Out of the ashes of the Second World War, the Japanese New Wave heralded an unprecedented explosion of new artistic creation.
Images from two films by Ben Rivers: Slow Action (2010) and Two Years at Sea (2011).
Constructing realism and deconstructing reality in animation, from Chuck Jones to Kon Satoshi.
Looking at some of the fundamentals of animation through Oshii Mamoru’s “Ghost in the Shell” (“Kōkaku Kidōtai”, 1995).
A look at documentary film through two works that play with constructing reality, “Leviathan” and “The Act of Killing”.
Andrzej Żuławski’s “Possession” and Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s “Cure” are in some ways two sides of a coin, but both use the genre of horror to dig much deeper under the skin.