Episodes
A critical text by Davide Abbatescianni on Jan Komasa's film «Corpus Christi», read by Nils Jansen and edited by Annatina Stalder. […] One thing is certain; in his performance, Bielenia is helped by his extraordinary physique du rôle, which powerfully embodies the dichotomies of his character, whilst his consummate acting celebrates its complexity.
Published 03/17/21
A critical text by Jorge Yglesias on Roy Andersson's film «About Endlessness», read by Amy Lombardi and edited by Lena von Tscharner. [...] To take a look at some historical events and the banality of everyday life and mix them displaying a sense of humour that flirts with the uncanny as Andersson does, is one of the most outstanding feats of contemporary cinema, the evidence that Artifice is the best way to represent the Real.
Published 03/17/21
A critical text by Giuseppe Di Salvatore on Mischa Hedinger's film «African Mirror», read by Amy Lombardi and edited by Jorge Cadena. [...] Mischa Hedinger’s journey into Gardi’s powerful imagination is not only a political journey into our relationship with Africa, but also a journey throughout filmmaking and its political consequences.
Published 03/17/21
Audio-interview with Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter on their film «Space Dogs», realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore at the Locarno Film Festival 2019 - concept and editing by Ruth Baettig.
Published 03/17/21
An essay by Giuseppe Di Salvatore on Béla Tarr's art of cinema, read by Julian Laybourne and edited by Jorge Cadena. [...] What seems to me very particular in experiencing his films is not that we experience a sort of half-immersion half-distance regarding the moving images on the screen, but that he is able to intensify the feelings of both immersion and distance at the same time.
Published 03/17/21
Audio interview with William Kentridge, realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore in occasion of his exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel in 2019 and edited by Ruth Baettig. Music excerpts: (C) William Kentridge. An exceptional podcast with a generous artist!
Published 03/17/21
A critical text by Giuseppe Di Salvatore on RaMell Ross' film «Hale County This Morning, This Evening», read by Julian Laybourne and edited by Jorge Cadena. [...] The incredible density of the film depends on the pulsating editing – which willingly plays with purely visual associations – but also on the photographic approach to almost every frame.
Published 03/17/21
A critical text by Laura Davis on Petra Costa's film «Elena», read by Amy Lombardi and edited by Lena von Tscharner. [...] The filmmaker embodies and thereby reanimates Elena. It is in this way her camera enables us access to reality without entirely carving out the insides of the first person...
Published 03/17/21
A critical text by Giuseppe Di Salvatore on Wang Xiaoshuai's film «So Long, My Son», read by Amy Lombardi and edited by Jorge Cadena. [...] The epic tonality of the tale does not find its accomplishment in glory or victory, but in piety. In its exclamative climax we feel the breath of humanism.
Published 03/17/21
Two critical texts by Jorge Yglesias and Giuseppe Di Salvatore on Sergei Loznitsa's film «State Funeral», read by Amy Lombardi and edited by Lena von Tscharner. [...] Turning propaganda material in a work of art, he demolishes the ideology that pervades the documents he´s dealing with.
Published 03/17/21
Audio-Interview with Andrei Cohn on his film Arest at the festival Black Movie Geneva 2020, realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore, edited by Ruth Baettig. Here is the very exciting interview with Andrei Cohn on confrontation with the past, the normality of evil, the function of his particular way of editing, the shooting set, and the consequences of this film on the audience.
Published 03/17/21
Discussion with Apichatpong Weerasethakul at the HEAD Cinéma in Geneva - November 2016 - edited by Ruth Baettig.
Published 03/17/21
Audio interview with Lav Diaz, realised by Jean Perret at the Bildrauch Filmfest in June 2017 and edited by Ruth Baettig.
Published 03/17/21
Audio interview with Elene Naveriani on her film «I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth» at its world premiere at the Solothurner Filmtage 2017, realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore and edited by Ruth Baettig.
Published 03/17/21
A critical tex by Giuseppe Di Salvatore on Vincent Meessen's film «Ultramarine», read by Julian Laybourne and edited by Jorge Cadena. [...] A transversal museum collection becomes a powerfully meaningful connection of stories, each object telling a story of power, of exploitation, of domination.
Published 03/17/21
A critical texts by Laura Davis and a commentary by Giuseppe Di Salvatore on Kamal Aljafari's film «Unusual Summer», read by Amy Lombardi and edited by Lena von Tscharner. [...] The unsteady relation between viewer and subject in favour of the trust between viewer and narrator speaks to the short-sightedness of state surveillance measures, our reliance on which is increasing day by day mid-pandemic.
Published 03/17/21
Q&A with Juan Manuel Sepúlveda on his film «The Still Life of Harley Prosper» at the festival Visions du Réel 2018, edited by Ruth Baettig.
Published 03/17/21
A critical text by Pamela Jahn on Bong Joon-ho's film «Parasite», read by Amy Lombardi and edited by Jorge Cadena. [...] Even though the film has increasingly dark undertones of social inequality in modern Korea, the main protagonists bring about a sort of melancholy hope for humanity wrapped in a fine shroud of mystery, shrewd charm and outbursts of violence, and accompanied by a brilliant score by Jaeil Jung that adds yet another layer to the rich fabric of the film.
Published 03/17/21
A discussion with Laura Walde on the tasks and challenges of curating short film programmes, realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2019 and edited by Ruth Baettg.
Published 03/17/21
Audio recording of Claire Atherton about Chantal Akerman's filmmaking in occasion of the symposium «Zur Schwierigkeit des Vergessens – Das Kino von Chantal Akerman» at Eikones Forum Basel (edited by Ruth Baettig).
Published 03/17/21
Salomé Lamas' Masterclass at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2016. Q&A with Delphine Jeanneret - in collaboration with the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur.
Published 03/17/21
Salomé Lamas' Masterclass (Second Part) at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2016, in discussion with Delphine Jeanneret and Emilie Bujès - in collaboration with the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur.
Published 03/17/21
Salomé Lamas' Masterclass (First Part) at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2016, in discussion with Delphine Jeanneret and Emilie Bujès - in collaboration with the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur.
Published 03/17/21
Audio interview with Beatrice Gibson on her «Crippled Symmetries», realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore at Art Basel 2016 end edited by Ruth Baettig.
Published 03/17/21
A critical text by Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie on Alejandra Márquez Abella's film «Las niñas bien», read by Amy Lombardi and edited by Jorge Cadena. [...] There are many semiotically rich gestures in décor, costume, behaviour and dialogue like these from Abella that permit us to paradoxically see the depth of shallowness in this character that we simultaneously admire and loathe.
Published 03/17/21