Features
Manipulating Material In The Cinema Of Dam-Building
In conjunction with their ongoing exhibition Lucy Raven: Rounds, an investigation into landscape shaped by industry and extraction, the Barbican screened a double bill of the filmmaker’s seldom circulated China Town (2009), and Jean Luc-Godard’s Opération béton (1955). Much like…
Lauren Melinda On ‘Before You’: A Film That Invites Women To Speak
In promoting her haunting and tender short film Before You, writer-director Lauren Melinda speaks about transforming deeply personal pain into a cinematic act of empathy. The short follows a couple in the wake of a distressing decision: ending a planned pregnancy.…
Opinion
‘Palestine 36’ Asks A Radical Question: What Is Stronger Than Empires?
In the concluding scene of Palestine 36, Afra (Wardi Eilabouni), a young Palestinian girl and a carrier of the knowledge of her culture, ancestors and the atrocities committed against them, walks barefoot through the stone streets of Jerusalem. This image,…
Is Yorgos Lanthimos’ Prada Galleria Ad A Battle Cry Against Artificial Intelligence?
Since striking in 2023, artists have brought the rapid acceleration in the use of generative AI in film to the forefront of contract negotiation and cultural consciousness. Filmmaking is a creative endeavour, but it is also a technical practice. Artificial…
The Lessons In ‘Nightcleaners’ Remain Important, 50 Years On
Between 1970 and 1972, a group of filmmakers (Richard Mordaunt, Mary, Kelly, Marc Karlin, Humphry Trevelyan and James Scott) working under the moniker Berwick Street Film Collective filmed women who spent nights cleaning the office buildings around London. This November,…