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Patrick Gamble

Patrick Gamble is a London-based writer specialising in film, music, and artists’ moving images. His words have appeared in The Skinny, Aesthetica, and Sight & Sound.

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Between Delicate and Violent (Şirin Bahar Demirel, 2023)
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Re-Framing the Family Archive

Essay by Patrick Gamble

Family archives are a fruitful resource for filmmakers, exemplified in this year’s International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)’s short film competition.
Valerija
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Lost Generations

Essay by Patrick Gamble

As reflected in this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival programme, cinema has played an important role in identity construction. Many of the films that have emerged from the former-Yugoslavia region are preoccupied with the past.

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Short films are key to cinematic innovation. Because of their brevity, they allow filmmakers to react to the world around them more instinctively and showcase a stunning range of artistic expressions. As a magazine dedicated to short films, Talking Shorts aims to create a wider discourse about this often-overlooked art form.

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Since 2023, Talking Shorts is the official outlet of The European Network for Film Discourse (The END), which consists of six unique and diverse European film festivals and is funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union. Our work and publications are closely connected to the (European) film festival landscape.

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