Film
Come and See
Come and See, directed by Elem Klimov, 1985. (Idi i smotri, original title) After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II. The feature film, shot in the genre of military drama, t...
December 10, 2018
RunnerBeyond The Black Rainbow
Beyond The Black Rainbow, Panos Cosmatos, 2010 (110 min.). Cosmatos declared that his “modernist” use of color was influenced by Michael Mann’s Manhunter (1986) and The Keep (1983). The blue hue cinematography – the “night mode” as Cosmatos dubbed it – wa...
November 10, 2018
RunnerMind Game
Mind Game, Masaaki Yuasa, 2004. A psychedelic self-discovery experience. Mind Game is an explosion of unconstrained expression – gloriously colorful mages ricochet in rapid fire associations, like Masaaki Yuasa’s brain splattered onto the screen in all its goopy glory. Audiences will ...
October 15, 2018
RunnerHuman Flow
Human Flow, directed by Ai Weiwei, 2017. Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artis...
October 10, 2018
RunnerAndrei Tarkovsky – Poetic Harmony
Cinema was the first art form to come into being as a result of a technological invention, in answer to a vital need. It was the instrument which humanity had to have in order to increase its mastery over the real world. For the domain of any art form is limited to one aspect of our s...
June 27, 2017
RunnerL’Eclisse
L’Eclisse (1962) by Michelangelo Antonioni is like an essay on the Pragmatics of human communication. One cannot not communicate. Every communication has a content and relationship aspect such that the latter classifies the former and is therefore a meta-communication. Human com...
July 10, 2015
NyxAdieu au langage
Godard‘s Adieu au langage at the movie theater. Lights go out. Ten minutes later, some spectators sense that the common idea of story doesn’t belong to this movie. Someone begins to grumble. The 3D vision combined with deliberately imperfect focal planes and “wrong&#...
January 10, 2015
NyxHiroshima Mon Amour
Alain Resnais‘ Hiroshima Mon Amour tells of memory and love, death and oblivion. The fleeting relationship between two lovers is the pretext for an intimate confrontation with the events of the war, imaginary double exposures gradually merging to present experience, filtering ou...
November 10, 2014
NyxMother and Son
A human and bucolic cry which, in its minimalism, describes a cosmic feeling. Image tames Word, confining the storytelling in skinny but evocative poetic fences. All around, wastelands, souls turned into ruins, wild vegetation and silence. Philosophically considered, growth from the s...
October 10, 2014
NyxTetsuo: The Iron Man
Yes, it is attraction and anger, a superfluous nightmare in the antechamber of a technocratic hell. It’s the non-showing of a rapid eucharist of objects and consumptions. Paints the body as a whole metropolis inhabited by infinite “ourselves”, with streets and buildings made o...
September 10, 2014
NyxPrologue (Visions of Europe)
Have ever a political and/or financial oligarch, swimming in his thirst for uncontrolled power, consumerist creation of unnecessary needs, pursuing a divide-et-impera strategy, looked down from his throne of blood on this short film by Béla Tarr? Every time I see it, I remember that&#...
August 10, 2014
NyxLa cinquième saison
Pure thoughtful cinema, sprinkled with symbols as a synthesis of knowledge. The first movie of this rubric is La cinquième saison (2012), directed by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth. (Spoiler alert) A small rural community is upset by absurd natural phenomena, the cycle of seasons...
July 10, 2014
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