By Alonso Aguilar
As her master mindlessly does gardening work, a skinny dog watches. Her fixed gaze, entranced by the clumsy cutting motions of protagonist, Sebastián (Daniel Katz), appears like…
Interview with BUMA composer Matthijs Kieboom by Young Film Critic Jason T. Liwag.
What I grew up to become — a molecular biologist, a theatre actor, a film critic —…
By Jason Tan Liwag
The first scene lingers. Motionless, two men hold a woman suspended — trapped and unmoving in a net — as a waterfall soaks them. Our view…
By Jason Tan Liwag
We begin in transit
Hanako (Mugi Kadowaki) is in a taxi on the way to a family reunion. She arrives at a lofty hotel and informs…
"Dreams". That's the theme which brings young talents to Berlin and Berlinale, this time online. The idea is to help them finding their way to the fields of cinema. They…
By Ren Scateni
In Thailand, the lemongrass girl is no mythical figure. As soon as thunder rumbles, she is immediately summoned. Her task is as simple as it is fundamental:…
One film, eight reviews. The eight participants of this-year's Talent Press have seen one film in advance, presented in the "Perspectives on German Cinema": Jide Tom Akinleminu's When a…
An exercise in introspective film criticism, the video letter is addressed to all the participants and mentors of Talent Press 2021. It examines both the process of written criticism and…
Cinematic Letters to Wuhan and Beirut: Inter-images of a Mnemonic River and After-images.
Letters have been sent and received since antiquity. But what is the relation of the epistolary practice…
Following the Berlinale premiere of a new documentary on Tina Turner, an exploration of how biopics talk about Black women musicians.
In Beloved, Toni Morrison writes of Baby Suggs who’d…
“Waits for no one.” “Once lost is never found again.” “The most valuable thing one can spend.” Each and every consideration about time in Western society tends to treat it…
A woman’s hand enters the cavity in a puppet’s back. It awakens, seems to breathe. She removes her arm, and it (perhaps ‘he’) deactivates, falls backward. A puppet is an…