The Truth of Illusion – animated documentary and theory by Samantha Moore

11.11.10
An Eyeful of Sound © Samantha Moore, funded by the Wellcome Trust Samantha Moore reflects on three recent conferences - Visible Evidence, documentary studies conference, Bogazici University, Istanbul August 2010; Animation Evolution (Society for Animation Studies conference), Edinburgh School of Art July 2010; and American Synesthesia Association conference 2010, Vanderbilt University, Nashville USA October 2010. Animated documentaries are apparently seen by the wider film theory community as an anamorphic ...
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Hit The Road by Kerim Aytac

04.11.10
Make It New John, Duncan Campbell Kerim Aytac on Duncan Campbell’s Make It New John and Get Out of the Car by Thom Anderson. Hit the Road, part of the Experimenta season at the London Film Festival, consisted of screenings of two films dealing with motor-vehicular dreams and the iconography of the open road. The first, Make It New John by Duncan Campbell, is about the short-lived attempt ...
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Remodernist Film by John A Riley

28.10.10
so tell me again, Jesse Richards The history of modernist art is littered with manifestos of one kind or another. Some are greedily devoured and incorporated, others seen as nothing more than an elaborate joke, a put-on that could never be put into action. More recently, in the world of film, the canny von Trier and Vinterberg have been able to market their films with a ...
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Ajay RS Hothi on Experimenta 2010

21.10.10
Ruhr, James Benning, 2009 In 1998, the year of the inaugural Experimenta element at the London Film Festival, then-Festival Director Adrian Wootton called it “…a distinct strand to showcase perhaps more radical, challenging and innovative work from filmmakers throughout the world.” Nine years later in 2007, curator Mark Webber described, in his introduction to the weekend, the strand as “…an island drifting away from the BFI Southbank.” ...
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Lewis Klahr by Colin Perry

19.10.10
Nimbus Series, Lewis Klahr Lewis Klahr – “One of the most evocative, accessible, and culturally aware experimental filmmakers alive and working” (Village Voice) –  is at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. In the USA, Lewis Klahr has been feted with accolades: Critic J Hoberman has named him the ‘reigning proponent of cut and paste’; his work has appeared in three Whitney Biennials and can be found ...
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Rosemary Heather on TIFF

13.10.10
Film Socialism, Jean-Luc Godard Some of the films Rosemary mentions can be seen at this year’s BFI London Film Festival – clink links for more. The 2010 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) seemed particularly hysterical. Toronto crowds have proved reliable predictors of future box office success – Slumdog Millionaire (2008) was rescued from straight-to-DVD obscurity at TIFF, and Precious (2009) was an audience favourite ...
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Matter Loves, Matter Lives, Matter Loves – the affective labour of the image in Hito Steyerl’s In Free Fall by Bridget Crone

08.10.10
In Free Fall, Hito Steyerl, 2010, exhibition at Picture This, image courtesy of the artist What is it like to experience the duration of two minutes in film? One minute? Hito Steyerl’s latest work, In Free Fall – a co-commission by Chisenhale Gallery, Picture This and the Collective Gallery – begins with the announcement “2 minutes to screening” and so we experience the duration of this ...
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