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Slow Cinema features groundbreaking works by Lav Diaz, Carlos Reygadas, Bi Gan, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Anti-consumerist, ecological, and contemplative, cinematic slowness offers a new form of agency, a mode of intervention in the accelerated pace of late-capitalist existence.
The fourth edition of Filmatique’s Ecologies series features films from Radu Ciorniciuc, Fredrik Gertten, Andreas Johnsen, Su Rynard, Kim Mourdant, Julie Bertuccelli, and Yung Chang.
Filmatique’s African Cinema collection features seminal works by Lionel Rogosin, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Samba Gadjigo.
In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Head Curator Ursula Grisham discusses the latent politics of Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Palme d'Or winning feature Winter Sleep.
In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Guest Curator Ritika Biswas examines legacies of violent colonial mapping in Thailand and Myanmar, necropolitics, and the notion of becoming in Phuttiphong Aroonpheng's Manta Ray.
In an exclusive interview with Filmatique, Talia Shea Levin (Next Time) discusses shooting a film about the problems of communication in relationships, creating the real billboards for the film, and her theater background.
In an exclusive interview with Filmatique, Danilo Stanimirović (Bambiland) discusses shooting a with autobiographical elements, using visual metaphors and creating a feeling of nostalgia.
In an exclusive interview with Filmatique, Christopher Kahunahana discusses specific forms of economic exploitation in the 'paradise' of Hawaii, everyday life as a Kanaka Maoli, the politics of cinematic representation, and his current projects.
The era of COVID had all but expired at the 79th annual Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia.
In a year that proved that truly anything is possible, cinema provided a proverbial shelter, a refuge, to many across the world. See Filmatique's Top Films of 2020.
Pablo Larraín's Ema, David Zonana's Mano de obra, and Małgorzata Szumowska's The Other Lamb are among Filmatique’s Top Films of the 2019 San Sebastián International Film Festival.
In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin reads Aquarius as gently uncovering the conflicts and contradictions of a deeply unequal and increasingly politically authoritarian society.