Mark Jenkin – Enys Men (2022)
PLOT: Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer’s daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to...
View ArticleFilip Bajon – Videokaseta AKA Videocassette (1976)
Quote: A film that uses animation as a tool to spastify the various stages of cinema development. It is a play with form and juggling of genres, with Zbigniew Rybczynski collaborating. The theme of...
View ArticleVimukthi Jayasundara – Ahasin Wetei aka Between Two Worlds (2009)
The young man has fallen from the sky The lines of communication are burned To flee the city and its tumult, get back to nature Enter into another story Of the legend of the prince In the hope of a...
View ArticleLuke Fowler – Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait (2023)
PLOT: Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret’s life, from the perspective of a fellow artist sensitive...
View ArticleFélix Dufour-Laperrière – Archipelago (2021)
A true animated film about invented islands. About an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between....
View ArticleStephen Dwoskin – Oblivion (2006)
Quote: Oblivion is of a man’s elderly paralytic literally unspeakable monologue of pain and fury as he finds himself caught in the isolation of dependency and sexual loss. His mind attempts to regain...
View ArticleEdward Owens – Tomorrow’s Promise (1967)
“Tomorrow’s Promise is a film about vacantness. Which physically does ‘begin’, reversed, upside down on the screen […] suddenly another such position is taken (not in reverse), this time by a male...
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