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my latest review from @ArtReview_ asia spring issue is also available to read online! this one took quite a long editorial back-and-forth to get published but i'm so happy to see it making it to print. FLOWERS OF BELAU is such a dreamy, composite work 🌺
Chikako Yamashiro’s new film is the latest to explore historical memory, war trauma and the geopolitical situation of her homeland, Okinawa artreview.com/flowers-of-bel…
such a fantastic 16mm screening of fukuda katsuhiko's A GRASSCUTTER'S TALE as part of @OpenCityDocs at @ICALondon 🌾
manual labour as a grounding routine not devoid of hardships and heartbreaks; growing old and learning to savour life in all its joy and sorrow; hands at work, grass, farming as an anticapitalist tool of resistance -
really sad news but not an unexpected one. i was head of programme at encounters (2021 - 2023), working in a team of 3 (+ temps) under extremely poor circumstances. true, funding cuts and austerity are to blame but myopic & toxic leadership is complicit
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tonight! hope to see some of you there!
Violent passions are unleashed at a remote Japanese boarding school in Summer Vacation 1999, a rediscovered classic that offers a strikingly androgynous exploration of teenage yearning and desire.
Fri 26 Apr, 20:40 @BFI + intro by @whateverren: queereast.org.uk/event/summe…
ALT A film still from "Summer Vacation 1999". Four boys wearing school uniform stand in front of a forest.
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ICYMI, our just-o'er-the-border neighbours @berwickfilmfest commissioned Alchemy Trustee @whateverren to write on Fujisawa Isao’s Bye Bye Love (1974) as part of their 19th edition last month.
A critique, very much, to pique!
bfmaf.org/essay/this-transie…
thinking back to this silly little announcement
ten shorts! all world premieres! what a concept!
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Great thread on festival premiere status, a concept that should have been ditched long ago — especially for short films which have slim to no avenues for distribution outside of festivals.
In November of this year, @visionsdureel contacted me about my submission, saying they were potentially interested but would have to make final decisions later. All good, nice that they liked the piece. 1/
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We’re turning five this year! Explore queer cinema, performances, arts and cultures from East and Southeast Asia in our most ambitious programme yet.
#QueerEast Festival takes place 17-28 April in venues across London. Discover the line-up: queereast.org.uk/festival-20…
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While that other list is going viral, let’s also take a look at this list of 6,000 filmmakers, actors, curators, film critics, & other workers essential to the international film industry that stand FOR Palestine. @FW4Palestine #FreePalestine #CeaseFireNow filmworkersforpalestine.org/
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i saw a film critic who posts exclusively to a wordpress blog proudly mention having signed this so that’s the level of “creatives and professionals” you’re looking at here
Over 1,000 Jewish creatives and professionals have now denounced Jonathan Glazer’s "Zone of Interest" Oscars speech in an open letter.
variety.com/2024/film/news/j…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The letter is a simple Google Form that does not confirm or ask for proof that the signers are Jewish creatives or professionals. One of the signers listed by Variety is a SAG AFTRA member named “Riverto Thesea” (River To The Sea).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
finally made my @talking_shorts debut with
many thanks to @NielsPutman 🙏
talkingshorts.com/the-fall-o…
much gratitude to the @berwickfilmfest team who kindly invited me to contribute to their festival catalogue with an essay on fujisawa isao's BYE BYE LOVE 🥺
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it was a truly rewarding exercise to historically contextualise the film while also surveying its prescient and contemporary representation of queer sexuality and non conforming gender identity
also thanks to @CollabJapanFilm for introducing me to the film!
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you can also find a fantastic essay by @whateverren on Bye Bye Love in our festival catalogue
was blown away by the recently found late-Japanese New Wave gem BYE BYE LOVE (1974) by Isao Fujisawa @berwickfilmfest: a queer, psychedelic fever dream about a man who shoots a cop and goes on the lam with his genderfluid shoplifting lover through the countryside.
