Discover Filmatique's best films from the 75th Venice International Film Festival.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin discusses consequences of colonialism in nations as diverse as Brazil, South Africa and Australia, disparate experiences of the black diaspora and the unifying role of music in Viramundo.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Martin Kudlac explores how Meteors's overlapping layers of meaning embroidered into a hybridizing narrative perform the collective function of circulating memories vis-à-vis a historical event that was intended to be kept secret.
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Filmatique Guest Curator Vassilis Economou's Locarno Review of Meteors explores how the Turkish documentarian Gürcan Keltek makes a political statement with his observation of one of the largest militant actions to take place against the citizens of his own country.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, assistant curator Marisa Winckowski assesses the prevailing truth of quiet moments in Samuel Kishi Leopo's coming-of-age film Somos Mari Pepa.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Afroditi Nikolaidou discusses Afterlov in the context of the Greek New Wave, and how the movement's filming of luxury spaces mediates the Greek crisis in distorted and hidden ways—as the locus of enclosure and confinement, of a borrowed life, of an imaginary future.
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In an exclusive interview for Filmatique, Samuel Kishi Leopo discusses the power of music, adolescence, working with nonprofessional actors and his next project.
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In an exclusive interview with Filmatique, Stergios Paschos discusses the mystery of cognition, the contract between the director and the viewer, summer, and his next project.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin assesses the intimate natural world and bonds of family in Two Gates of Sleep vis-à-vis common tropes of regional and contemporary indie cinema.
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In an exclusive interview with Filmatique, Alistair Banks Griffin discusses Lisandro Alonso, Lucrecia Martel and Werner Herzog, the landscape of the South, how minimalism gives way to impressionism and his next film, The Wolf Hour.
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In an exclusive interview with Filmatique, Matt Grady discusses the genesis of Factory 25, his boredom of safe films, the desire for physical objects in an increasingly digital world, and which American film festival he goes to in search of not only the best programming, but the best catering too.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Professor Maria Fritsche analyzes the static camerawork and diegetic soundscape of Austerlitz, and how the film functions as a composite portrait of ourselves.
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In an exclusive interview with Filmatique, Charles Poekel discusses the origins of naturalism in material and execution, shooting 16mm, the guarded kindness of New Yorkers and his next project.
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In an exclusive interview with Filmatique, Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzan discuss the Sundance stigma, Japanese techno-pop philosophy, the duplicitous nature of films and their next projects.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, assistant curator Marisa Winckowski explores the irony and cinematic exercise of creating something out of nothing in For the Plasma.
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In an exclusive interview with Filmatique, Nicolás Pereda discusses melancholy in his oeuvre, life as eternal idle, social class in Latin America, and his most recent works Minotaur and The Private Property Trilogy.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Wisconsin Film Festival Artistic Director J.J. Murphy discusses the assured and poetic visual style, and powerhouse performances, of Amy Seimetz's debut feature Sun Don't Shine.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin examines Minotauro within Nicolás Pereda's diverse and accomplished body of work—an attempt to unveil the texture of societal power relations through people's everyday interactions, hopes, and dreams.
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin explores performance and the melding of reality with art in Charly Braun's second feature Vermelho Russo (Russian Red).
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In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Marisa Winckowski explores the mirroring of three instances in which Anishoara discovers her role as an object of desire, subtly underlining her transition from youth to young adulthood.
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