Screen Extra

La Guarimba International Film Festival is a socio-cultural project based in Amantea, a small town in the south of Italy. It was set up by a group of artists who cleaned and reopened the Arena Sicoli, an old outdoor 900 seat-cinema that had been closed down, to bring international filmmaking to Amantea and to foster the culture of Calabria. Aside from screenings, the festival will also feature food tastings, filmmaking workshops, live music and outdoor projections of our official selection. (…)

Gaïa Meucci is the programmer of the [Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival ->http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk in Bristol. She took the time to answer some of our questions about programming, and tells us what has made Encounters on the UK’s foremost film festivals. According to you, why has Encounters Festival acquired such a strong identity throughout the years? Because of the quality of the programme, the festival’s international scope and its friendliness and (…)

"The Lift-Off Film Festival was created by James Alexander and Ben Pohlman back in May 2011 as a way to showcase many of the work being created by exceptional artists who didn’t have the funds to rent high tech equipment or buy themselves onto a greater stage. Since its call for entries back in May 2011 Lift-Off has grown considerably and is now in a position to offer all Official Selevions transatlantic screenings - covering the cities of London, Liverpool, Las Vegas and Long Beach. All (…)

Comment plus de 35 ans de lutte du peuple Sahraoui ont-ils mené au tout premier soulèvement du Printemps Arabe ? Dernière colonie d’Afrique, le Sahara Occidental voit depuis 35 ans sa population coupée en deux. D’un côté, les Sahraouis vivent sous l’occupation marocaine, sans aucune liberté d’expression et confrontés à la violente répression du régime ; de l’autre, plus de 165.000 réfugiés subissent l’exil en survivant dans les campements de réfugiés de la région de Tindouf en Algérie. (…)

Rotoreliefs brought us another night of leftfield short films and other more experimental and always entertaining productions at Rich Mix London. Hello Carter by [Anthony Wilcox->http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0928171 An offbeat, beautifully put together, understated comedy about a man fired from his workplace before bumping into his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Q Tell us about the film. I wanted to make a comedy in a more cinematic, stylised way, in a manner similar to many American (…)

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were and ask why not." This quote, frequently attributed to Robert F. Kennedy, although he originally paraphrased Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, echoes in many ways important aspects and dichotomies in Phillipe Parreno’s recent exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery (25 November 2010 - 13 February 2011). Born in Algeria in 1964, Parreno is a visual artist who works primarily with films. (…)

série créée en 2008 par Simon Astier et Alban Lenoir, avec Simon Astier, Alban Lenoir, Agnès Boury, Christian Bujeau, Aurore Pourteyron, Sébastien Lalanne, etc.

**Written in response to Lobster’s article "Richard Dawkins and the Invisible Menace", following the screening of the TV documentary Faith School Menace.** Wow, lobster, where to begin…? You know, under normal circumstances, it’s a little rude to condemn one’s philosophical opponent for views and motivations you’ve largely intuited yourself. “Dawkins *intentionally* sets up a dangerous dichotomy”, “Dawkins *refuses* to engage with the dangers of scientific rationality”, “Perhaps Dawkins (…)

In Faith School Menace? Richard Dawkins sets out to ‘explore the balance of rights between a parent’s right to educate a child in their own faith and a child’s rights to determine their own beliefs and approach the world with a genuinely open mind’. This ‘genuinely open mind’ is a cause for concern, if not outright guffawing. Can Richard Dawkins really imagine an approach to the world that exists outside of history, culture, gender, class, time? Oh yeah, that’s GOD! In a manner reminiscent (…)

LAST DAY Mario just said ‘game dynamics, gameplay, character development.’ Mario’s hands are numbering his fingers Mario’s lips are making fs. There is a shape Mario and Andrew are making we can observe from at least 2 angles. They have changed this shape. Mario and Andrew are speaking in a throat croak. Andrew listens to Mario and watches Mario’s hands numbering his fingers. Andrew’s nails are painted. Josie just asked a question about eviction outfits. Josie poked an (…)