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London Film Festival 2024 Highlights

November 1, 2024 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

Contrary to the laurels ensconcing every independent movie poster and advertisement, not every film festival presentation is going to be a winner. Once you cut through the glitz of celebrity and flashing lights over the red carpet, sometimes these movies simply aren’t very good. I was pleased, then, that of the fourteen or so films […]

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London Film Festival 2024 Preview

October 20, 2024 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

London isn’t what you think. Or at least, it’s not what I thought it was. I moved here from the States back in 2016 and was shocked to find that it doesn’t perpetually rain. Not really, anyway. It drizzles. It’s gray. It’s a mild climate year-round, but it also gets weirdly hot and bone-chattering chilly. […]

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Mushrooms Galore at Fungi Film Festival 2023

December 26, 2023 By Corrado Nai Leave a Comment

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The Fungi Film Festival (FFF) doesn’t make sense. First of all, it’s not really a festival. With an overall length of two hours and fifteen minutes, watching everything on offer this year won’t take you much longer than an average movie at the cinema. The short films are an aggregate of disparate styles and genres, […]

Interview

Fight the Power: Interview with Cyril Schäublin, Writer/Director of Unrest

September 14, 2022 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

Everything seems to tick in Unrest, the latest effort from Zurich-born writer/director Cyril Schäublin. Unrest depicts the working lives of 19th century anarchist watchmakers in the Swiss mountains, laying bare the absurdities of the wage system. Schäublin follows workers as they navigate their working hours across four different time zones in one town—factory time, train […]

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Pastries, Freedom, and Love: An Interview with The Artist Airidescence

August 17, 2022 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

The Artist Airidescence is a multimedia anarchist creator whose work has picked up significant attention on social media. Their ongoing anarchist raccoon art series has been popular enough to warrant sold out print runs on Etsy. Recently, in collaboration with scholar Zoe Baker, they have produced an animated short film entitled Pastries, Freedom, Love: A Malatesta Story based on […]

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Prehistoric Planet Review

July 25, 2022 By Patrick Murphy Leave a Comment

Almost a century ago, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle showed The Lost World (1925), a film filled with prehistoric creatures, to a meeting of the Society of American Magicians, and impishly refused to disclose the origin of the film. Willis H. O’Brien’s stop-motion dinosaurs were impressive enough to convince at least some of the audience that […]

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Weaponizing Whiteness to Save the Planet

March 3, 2022 By Rico Norwood 1 Comment

Western documentaries tend to rely upon the dual tropes of white saviorism and white sympathy to offer myopic approaches to complex interconnected cultural issues. This results in two-dimensional solutions to problems like climate change which tend to overlook marginalized groups that suffer for the global system of white supremacy. Seen as a bargaining tool and voice of […]

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Cowboys & Aliens: Extraterrestrial Manifest Destiny And Its Enduring White Gaze

June 21, 2021 By Dali Adekunle 1 Comment

On November 15, 2020, NASA and SpaceX partnered to launch a six-month science mission on the International Space Station. Despite the ravages of COVID-19, NASA’s collaboration with this brainchild of Elon Musk, himself a product of an apartheid South African emerald mining fortune, solidifies the “final frontier” as yet another domain for colonial capitalist dominance.  […]

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Salem Film Fest 2021: The Long Coast Q&A

March 28, 2021 By Nathan Frontiero Leave a Comment

Seafolk are a uniquely resilient bunch. Growing up in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the oldest seaport in the country, I learned prosperity and precarity can alternate like the tide for fishermen. The danger of commercial fishing also means coastal communities often bequeath a cultural inheritance of grief.  These elements drew me with great curiosity to The Long […]

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Søren On the Science of Vaccines with The Waffle Press Podcast

March 3, 2021 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

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Is this a crossover episode? I had the rare opportunity to jump on The Waffle Press podcast and discuss some important issues with my good friends Diego Crespo and Gene Aversa. The first part of our discussion focuses on the hesitancy around vaccines seen both in the general population and among people of color. We […]

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