Re-Framing the Family Archive Using Home Videos in Documentary Filmmaking notes by Patrick Gamble notes by Patrick Gamble Before social media, families would document their lives through the creation of photograph albums, updating them after each of life’s big …
Teaching about Short Film, Writing about Short Film Three Seminar Papers on Queer Themes in Short Films notes by Laura Walde In the spring semester of 2022, with my Ph.D. in film studies on the subject of brevity in film recently completed, I taught a seminar for …
Which Direction Home? Encounters Film Festival 2023 notes by Fedor Tot To make a living and to exist freely was on the minds of many filmmakers at the 2023 Encounters Film Festival. Perhaps a widespread …
I’ve found(footage) myself: I am another On Concorto Film Festival’s MNEMOSYNE cycle notes by Dora Leu Concorto Film Festival’s MNEMOSYNE cycle aptly summarised contemporary trends in found footage filmmaking. Shorts from different cultural …
Big City Life On Chantal Akerman’s shorts notes by Michaël Van Remoortere No one has captured the emotional reality of big city life better than Chantal Akerman. There have been so-called city symphonies before in …
Lost Generations Short documentaries that explore the fractured identities of post-war former-Yugoslavia notes by Patrick Gamble The term “Lost Generation” was originally coined by American novelist Gertrude Stein, to describe the cynicism that defined the literary …
Tracking the Past Filmfest Dresden’s focus on short films from The Basque Country and Catalonia notes by Savina Petkova “Cartography of Contemporary Basque Society” and “Parallels” were the names of the two-part selection for this year’s ‘Discourse: Europa’ …
