SWEAT – CIFF 2020 QUICKIE REVIEW

In our current social media age, nothing is ever enough. The berating of manipulative sponsors, obsessed followers, and the bombardment of one’s own self-image can be a stressful occupation. The competitive market is a rich farce, where influencers compete against one another, in a game of photogenic lifestyles. In Magnus von Horn’s latest film, he […]

AND TOMORROW THE ENTIRE WORLD – CIFF 2020 QUICKIE REVIEW

The subject of anti-facism has been a common talking point in recent political discourse and even contemporary art. For example, take Julia von Heinz And Tomorrow the Entire World —a detailed cinematic examination on protest culture. The film specifically comments on the strenuous high octane environment found in these groups, that can lead the most […]

DEAR COMRADES! – CIFF 2020 QUICKIE REVIEW

On June 2nd, 1962, a group of unarmed protesters were fatally shot to death in the Russian city of Novocherkassk. The event resulted in a shattering wave of arrests and forced brutality against the innocent civilians of the town, who were relentlessly harassed and beaten in order to keep quiet on the subject. Years later, […]

DAYS – CIFF 2020 QUICKIE REVIEW

After a seven year hiatus, acclaimed Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang returns to the silver screen with Days. The film is primarily an exploration on the impact of moving images; in which Tsai purposefully eradicates any form of subtitles. Whatever is spoken in the film is purely interpreted by the power of action, where the audience […]

CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI – FANTASIA 2020 REVIEW

The limitations of the one take have consistently been tested to it’s very limits in the last decade or so. Especially after the critical smash that was Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, contemporary filmmakers have been attempting to use the one take technique to either enhance realism or create a surreal way of […]