A Map of Ruins and Reconstruction: The Japanese New Wave
Out of the ashes of the Second World War, the Japanese New Wave heralded an unprecedented explosion of new artistic creation.
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 Satoshi Kon.
Looking at some of the fundamentals of animation through Mamoru Oshii’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.