When discussing Jean-Claude Rousseau and his body of work, solitude is the word that appears most often. As his own producer, cinematographer, editor, and often actor, this one-man crew is deeply engaged in crafting fiction as self-portraiture that concerns the spiritual confinement of how the artist is bound by the…

When I was in elementary school, my science teachers would often put on one of those documentaries that explained the effects of global warming and the urgency of environmentalism and climate mitigation. My childhood memories are filled with the voices of British men narrating over images of large groups of…

You Dreamt You Saw Yourself but Couldn’t See Your Face – Shireen Seno The central subject of the camera is a lake, and the handhelds vagrantly glide through its minute segments to observe the undulation of ripples and how fallen leaves flow across the surface. But the lake is not…

Little Poems in Prose – Radu Jude, Andrei Rus: Radu Jude is by far the biggest name in the Flash Competition this year, yet somehow his co-directing effort with Andrei Rus also feels like the freest amongst the line-up. As described at the beginning of the film, this is a…