Cinema and World ‘World Cinema’, to a French eye, is a very welcoming notion that could mean several different, even contradictory things. Among these, I will evoke three meanings: Because…
There has been a renewed interest in film and video performance over the last decade, evident in the emergence of the VJ (Video Jockey) and VJing as real-time visual performance.…
In the opening moments of Philippe Grandrieux’s Un lac (A Lake, 2008), we hear the sharp, rhythmic thwack of an axe. The arms swinging it fly across the screen. Behind…
In Passing In Parables for the Virtual (2002), Brian Massumi argues that movement and sensation are integral to the body. Massumi describes the body in motion as in relation to…
… if my films have a common link, maybe it’s being a foreigner – it’s common for people who are born abroad – they don’t know so well where they…
Is it a texture, or a fold of the soul, of thought? – Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque Those familiar with the work of contemporary French director…
-1- A small cinema, new and well equipped. In the foreground, an attendant in a white laboratory coat leans over a figure seated in the front row, fussing over him…
Is it possible for an emotionless psychopath such as Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford (played by Casey Affleck), the mild-mannered murderer in Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me (2010), to experience empathy? [1] This…
Reality is partial to symmetries and slight anachronisms. - Borges, “The South” [1] I think that human beings are not in a place from the beginning of humanity. We have…
When the moon hits the eye Like a big pizza pie – That’s amore. – Dean Martin Everything is somewhere. Even Corsica is somewhere. – Nurit (age six) The concept…