Cinema’s New Sorcery: Jorge Núñez’s Merlin

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By Dean Kavanagh Rouzbeh Rashidi’s Ten Years in the Sun was not shot on Earth; it was filmed between worlds, from scaffolding that could have only been erected on a cold, craggy and cavernous moon somewhere in the great nebula of Cinema. Here, space and time are entwined, bending backwards on themselves in some detailed…

By Bill Mousoulis “Experimental narrative” – it is a conjunction sometimes bandied about but seldom realised in films themselves. Maybe it is too much of a dream, too “in-between” our known, delineated forms. For filmmakers who have tried, they have always slipped to one side or the other. Warhol did Sleep, but it is experimental;…

By Lorenzo Paci Compress humanity into an instant and enclose it. What we see, the places we belong to, our own existence, all this has an origin, and it is by following certain logical, sequential stages that we can return to the beginning, to an era when a simple mind can move a mountain and…

By Dean Kavanagh Open Night Cinema took place on Friday June 12th, 2015. It was a very special and intimate evening at a derelict industrial site. The space itself was vast and overwhelming, punctuated with patches of light and a tepid scent of chiselled stone. Watching people enter the complex through the overgrown exterior seemed…

By Mina Arshakun & Sadeq Yaqubi Prolific experimental filmmaker James Fotopoulos is responsible for some of the most singular cinematic outputs over the past two decades. While a major portion of contemporary experimental film has moved away from conceptual projects in favor of tasteful diaristic recordings and demonstrating alternate viewpoints to the everyday, Fotopoulos has…