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Laura Stoeckler

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Talks Interviews

Cinema of Traces

Interview with Lin Htet Aung by Laura Stoeckler

Growing up under Myanmar’s dictatorship, Lin Htet Aung’s Tiger Short Award-winning A Metamorphosis tackles regime propaganda through abstraction and symbolism. In this interview, he discusses the politics and poetry of his artistic practice.
Films Retrospective

The House is Black

Poetics of Empathy

Review by Laura Stoeckler

Set in an Iranian leper colony, Forugh Farrokhzad’s The House is Black paints an intimate portrayal of human existence under the weight of marginalisation.
Reads Focus

The Quiet Force of Introspective Filmmaking

Essay by Laura Stoeckler

Austrian filmmaker Antoinette Zwirchmayr shapes her unique work around human bodies, natural environments, and their entanglements with both personal histories and collective narratives.
Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse
Films On The Circuit

Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse

Apathy’s Grip

Review by Laura Stoeckler

Two characters are trapped in a colourless existence of apathy, their reality slipping away without them noticing.
Asterión
Films On The Circuit

Asterión

Echoes of Silence

Review by Laura Stoeckler

Though devoid of any sound, Asteriòn is an exceptionally visceral and vivid cinematic experience.
A.I. Poetries of Female and Non-Female Beings in Gas Stations at Night
Films On The Circuit

A.I. Poetries of Female and Non-Female Beings in Gas Stations at Night

The Human Factor Behind A.I.

Review by Agnès Houghton-Boyle

Though conceived long before artificial intelligence became the popular force it is today, Cristina Iliescu’s debut short offers a compelling reminder of our latent responsibility in the teething stages of machine learning.
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