Category: AV Festivals
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AV Festival: Independencia
Independencia (2009) takes as its title the Spanish word for “independence”. Set on an island…
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AV Festival: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring
It might be difficult to come out of Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring (Bom…
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AV Festival: Syndromes and a Century
Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul has made slower films than Syndromes and a Century (Sang sattawat,…
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AV Festival: Still Life
A somewhat surprise winner of the Golden Lion at Venice in 2006, Still Life (Sanxia…
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AV Festival: Slow Cinema Weekend, Part 4 – Four Films by Lav Diaz
This is the fourth in a series of five editorials on the AV Festival’s Slow…
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AV Festival: Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours
As the unobtrusive statement it takes as its title might suggest, Lung Neaw Visits His…
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Mapping Festival 2012 (Geneva) – Line up announced
10-20 May 2012 Genveva, Switzerland Held over the space of ten days, the Mapping Festival…
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AV Festival: Silent Light
“Sometimes it’s worth it, sometimes not.” So wrote Nick James of “slow cinema”, in his…
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AV Festival: Slow Cinema Weekend, Part 3 – Three Films by Lisandro Alonso
This is the third in a series of five editorials on the AV Festival’s Slow…
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AV Festival: Las Acacias
On the one hand, Las Acacias sits comfortably into what we’ve been calling “slow cinema”…