This week’s film trippy offering is animator Felix Colgrave’s The Elephant’s Garden, brought to our attention by the Annecy Film Festival. Colgrave has created a colourful, strange, vaguely nightmarish world in which we watch the food chain (…) Continue Reading »

Beauty Is is a 2-hour documentary about the attitudes and opinions of Black British women and men on the meaning of Black beauty. For women. The film argues that complex processes of internalised racism and alienation have arisen as a result of the media, cosmetic, health and fashion industries which idolise the white Barbie doll and are intent on helping Black women to become more like her. (…) Continue Reading »

Cette semaine nous embarquons pour un trip sous acide grâce à une jolie révélation du festival d’Annecy, The Elephant’s garden, du jeune animateur australien Felix Colgrave. C’est un jardin extraordinaire qu’a imaginé Felix Colgrave. Tel un (…) Lire la suite »

Enfin ! Voilà un court métrage qui évite l’écueil irritant du concept tenant lieu de scénario. The River est un film charmant et bavard, qui se prélasse dans la chaleur suffocante de l’été et n’est pas pressé d’arriver à destination. Ce qui n’est pas le cas de sa protagoniste, Maria, qui n’a qu’une obsession : aller au bord de la rivière. « Il faut que j’aille me baigner » crie-t-elle à son (…) Lire la suite »

At last! A cracking short film that refrains from an irritatingly tidy conceit as if it’s a reasonable substitute for substance; The River is a mouthy, charming film that basks in the hot dry sun (‘Goddamnit it’s hot!’) and is in no hurry to get anywhere. Apart from its main character – Maria – who is desperate to get to The River - ‘I got to get in that river!!!’ she cries at her boss, (…) Continue Reading »

Before adapting Wadji Mouawad’s Incendies in 2010 and earning himself an international reputation with Prisoners, Canadian film maker Denis Villeneuve directed this cultish short that toured festivals around the world and won the Best Short prize (…) Continue Reading »

Adaptateur de Wajdi Mouawad au cinéma (Incendies, 2010) et esthète du cinéma canadien, Denis Villeneuve est aussi l’auteur d’un court quasi culte qui a fait le tour des festivals de la planète, et a entre autres remporté le prix du Meilleur Court (…) Lire la suite »

How was the festival started? Queer Mutiny North put on the first two festivals. They are a DIY collective that organises lots of events as an alternative to the mainstream gay scene and this is something that was continued by other people. What would you say defines a queer festival or a queer film? We struggled to come up with a single definition of queer as it means something (…) Continue Reading »

Tony Hickson’s latest review of a film poster Continue Reading »

Although I was planning to see Double Play, a potentially interesting documentary about the friendship between film directors Richard Linklater and James Benning, the former a long-standing darling of American semi-indie who flirts with Hollywood (The School of Rock), the other a firm outsider of the mainstream who makes feature length, non-narrative landscape films, it was cancelled. So (…) Continue Reading »