Cinema
Jury duty is hell on wheels
Gah! Why can’t I have 5 films ex equo in the first place? Same for second and third? Goodness, I just KNOW how much work went into each and every one of them. And so […]
short film
Cinema
BOYS – POJKARNA – short film with great actor
BOYS is a 15 minute Swedish short directed by Isabella Carbonell and written by her and Babak Najafi. Young Markus (brilliant: Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs) is in an institution for young sex offenders – his […]
Viennale
ZUO TIAN (PAST PRESENT) and NO FORM
NO FORM is an intense work of art, a dreamlike sequence on a busy street coupled with a symphony in red and white, a short film by Malaysian filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang, whose life and childhood […]
Alpinale
Films I (did not) mention II
As I posted earlier, there are films I don’t review, at least not right away. So here’s more afterglow: JONATHAN’S CHEST (USA 2014, 15 minutes) by director Christopher Radcliff had me guessing about what happened […]
Alpinale
Films I (did not) mention I
“A journalist’s sharpest weapon is silence.” This I learned from my very first Editor in Chief, when I started to learn my ropes at an office technology magazine. As a TV/radio newscaster at ORF I […]
Alpinale
29. ALPINALE about to start
Rain! This means there won’t be open air cinema tonight … yet the orange carpet is ready for one of Austria’s international short film festivals … we have already previewed one of the entries here, […]
Cinema
WORLD OF ART
Have a look at World of Art, a delightful little short film from the US of A, starring John Dale Kampsen as – what I call – an “iconoclastic baddie” …. (he says he’s never […]