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.
Author: David Franklin
Interval: Ben Rivers
Images from two films by Ben Rivers: Slow Action (2010) and Two Years at Sea (2011).
Recursive loops and uncanny reflections
Constructing realism and deconstructing reality in animation, from Chuck Jones to Satoshi Kon.
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).
“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”.
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.