CROOKED BEAUTY

“Being told that I had a ‘mental illness’ was both horrifying, and very conveniently let me off the hook for having responsibility for my life…”

Posted on November 3, 2011 in Reviews by

THE MIAMI DENTIST

It makes one feel as if the universe is playing a joke on all of us, but because we are the butt of the joke, no one is laughing…

Posted on October 29, 2011 in Reviews by

DIES IRAE

All of the images all show a road, path, or a central line of some kind which vanishes into the distance, and this pathway is always placed centrally…

Posted on October 28, 2011 in Reviews by

MARKS…HOLES

A kind of music which combines images and sounds to create a set of formal variations which are playful, spacious, and exciting to watch…

Posted on October 27, 2011 in Reviews by

SITTING

This video beautifully captures something I have never seen before in a film: the relationship between an artist and a model, particularly when it is considered as a constantly changing stream of color and light…

Posted on October 25, 2011 in Reviews by

THE GLITTER EMERGENCY

“The Glitter Emergency” is a short fairy tale film by Paul Festa about Peggy, a one-legged girl with a peg leg, who dreams of releasing her inner ballerina…

Posted on October 24, 2011 in Reviews by

APPARITION OF THE ETERNAL CHURCH

Festa is investigating a key question about musical aesthetics, and he has invented a methodology to study it which provides very illuminating results…

Posted on October 23, 2011 in Reviews by

CRIES AND ECHOES (DVD)

Priscilla McLean is a skilled, original composer with considerable musical gifts. As a filmmaker, however, she is clearly just beginning to find her voice…

Posted on October 22, 2011 in Reviews by

IN/FLUX (DVD)

The lowave label has added an important title to their growing catalogue of “must have” collections…

Posted on October 21, 2011 in Reviews by

TO DREAM OF FALLING UPWARDS

People who are attracted to occult practices which are far outside of mainstream religions are, by definition, non-conformists…

Posted on October 3, 2011 in Reviews by

RESISTANCE(S) VOL. 3 (DVD)

“Resistance(s)” is a DVD series of experimental films by artists from the Middle East which is produced by the Lowave label, and the new Volume 3 is just as fine as the first two…

Posted on October 8, 2010 in Reviews by

THREE LANGUAGE VIDEOS

The playful relationship between the text and the images, and the constant references to the visual syntax of films, make the experience of watching these films a little like bungee jumping…

Posted on October 6, 2010 in Reviews by

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