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18th November 2022

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.

4th November 2022

Interval: Ben Rivers

Images from two films by Ben Rivers: Slow Action (2010) and Two Years at Sea (2011).

26th October 2022

Recursive loops and uncanny reflections

Constructing realism and deconstructing reality in animation, from Chuck Jones to Satoshi Kon.

19th October 2022

Animism and Nothingness: Mamoru Oshii’s “Ghost in the Shell”

Looking at some of the fundamentals of animation through Mamoru Oshii’s “Ghost in the Shell” (“Kōkaku Kidōtai”, 1995).

12th October 2022

“Not everything true is good”: Realism, reality, and representation in documentary filmmaking

A look at documentary film through two works that play with constructing reality, “Leviathan” and “The Act of Killing”.

13th July 2022

Hallowe’en Hangover: Crisis and Disorientation in “Possession” and “Cure”

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.

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  • A Map of Ruins and Reconstruction: The Japanese New Wave
  • Interval: Ben Rivers
  • Recursive loops and uncanny reflections
  • Animism and Nothingness: Mamoru Oshii’s “Ghost in the Shell”
  • “Not everything true is good”: Realism, reality, and representation in documentary filmmaking

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