Continuing its reputation as the biggest international documentary film festival in UK, the 21st Sheffield Doc/Fest welcomed documentarians and activists from the public domain with a fierce independent spirit this year. The past is always with us. But who wants to live in an antique shop? - Ian McShane in How We Used To Live… Continue reading Independent spirit: 21st Sheffield Doc/Fest
Author: Georgia Korossi
Writer-curator & photographer Georgia Korossi is based in London and Athens. Her research writings on film and cultural studies have been published by Sight & Sound, LUX – Artists’ Moving Image and Little White Lies. She co-ordinated the BFI digital projects 39 Steps to Hitchcock and The Reel History of Britain and she is part of the BFI’s Digital team. During her postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths, she worked as film programmer, producer and artist with a number of projects including the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival and the Athens Biennale.
Jimmy’s Hall: interview with director Ken Loach
Highly respected for his outstanding work by the British and international arts community, director Ken Loach returns this year with his latest film Jimmy’s Hall. Ken Loach and his regular collaborator, writer Paul Laverty (The Angel’s Share, The Wind That Shakes the Barley) return to Ireland to feature the story of a dynamic and charismatic character, Jimmy… Continue reading Jimmy’s Hall: interview with director Ken Loach
Archipelago connected: 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Coinciding with the events in Thessaloniki as the European Youth Capital, the screens in the northern Greek city wrote ethics, truth and literacy on the wall. Peter Wintonick once wrote: "We should attempt to pour our work and activism into the forge of human service. Let us become our own masters, re-appropriate our media away… Continue reading Archipelago connected: 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Derek Jarman: 21 photographs
Gallery | 21 photographs from Derek Jarman’s intriguing work. It's 20 years since Derek Jarman's (1942-1994) death, but his films continue to inspire audiences with his romantic and subversive imagery. Jarman contracted HIV in 1986 and he publicly discussed what it is to live, work and influence change with… Continue reading Derek Jarman: 21 photographs
57th BFI London Film Festival: Luton
Screening at the 57th BFI London Film Festival's First Feature Competition, Luton is an insightful film and an alarming tour de force about personal responsibilities. Director Michalis Konstantatos talks about his debut feature. The world of Luton, the debut feature of Michalis Konstantatos, is common people in their everyday lives. The three lead characters… Continue reading 57th BFI London Film Festival: Luton
Director of photography: Martin Putz
Little is known about the work of Austrian director of photography and camera operator Martin Putz in the UK. Here's an introduction to his work and collaborations. Martin Putz's collaboration with Austrian film director Virgil Widrich and Luxembourgian artist Bady Minck, as well as other significant figures from the Austrian experimental world, like Martin… Continue reading Director of photography: Martin Putz
Monument and memory: Jean-Luc Godard
The recent proliferation of social, personal and reflexive documentaries that has seen a range of experimental approaches towards found footage editing, has increased the frequency of essay films leading towards the innovation of a new factual form of filmmaking. Historians don’t search, they find. To shield all these images from language means to actually… Continue reading Monument and memory: Jean-Luc Godard
Jonas Mekas: Serpentine Gallery
Review | Jonas Mekas: Survey of a cinematic lyricist Serpentine Gallery, London 5 December 2012 – 27 January 2013 The Serpentine Gallery is a remarkably suitable setting to host Jonas Mekas’s work. Its location stretches inside Kensington Gardens where trees and ornamental flowerbeds surround the gallery’s building from the South to its North rooms. All his… Continue reading Jonas Mekas: Serpentine Gallery
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