Introducing: Greenhorn Short Film Festival
Director and patron Mike Leigh describes it as “healthily anarchic and sharp as a row of needles”, and Ideas Tap are supporting their new award for young filmmakers. But what is Greenhorn Short Film...
Ritual, Magic & Slapstick: The Kazimier’s Silent Film Revival
Adam Scovell looks forward to the next Silent Liverpool event, showcasing the tragicomedy of Larry Semon and the avant-garde choreography of Maya Deren… Silent film is a description that is at once a...
Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2014 — Reviewed
Promoting avant-garde filmmaking, encouraging audience critique, and reminding us of the pure joy of a projector and popcorn, ASFF injects fresh faith into our relationship with cinema, finds Joshua Potts… It’s barely midday,...
Power To The People: Liverpool Radical Film Festival
Independent and provocative, the Liverpool Radical Film Festival starts tonight: Maisie Ridgway picks her highlights… By its nature, the word ‘radical’ is transitional and all encompassing, referring to the departure from tradition towards innovation...
Still The Outsider Looking In: Terence Davies In Conversation
Tonight, journalist Laura Brown interviews Britain’s greatest living film director live on stage. Here, she explains how Davies perfectly embodies the voice of the outsider, and why that is — still — so important…...
In Profile: Derek Jarman’s The Last of England (1988)
An experimental and hypnotic film made with Super 8, Jarman’s The Last of England is a scathing attack on the state of Thatcherite Britain, homophobia and the treatment of AIDS victims, finds Adam Scovell… The late 1980s were...
Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2014 — The Highlights
What do Maxine Peake, Ridley Scott and Lily Cole have in common? They’re all part of this year’s BAFTA-qualifying ASFF film festival, of course: Joshua Potts trawls through the programme to pick his highlights…...
“Contemporary TV Is Mainly Rubbish” — Radical Filmmaker Jef Cornelis
Just who is Jef Cornelis? Ahead of a special screening tomorrow marking the end of his festival exhibition, Liverpool Biennial Fellow Deborah Laing met the radical filmmaker to discuss his ‘propagandist’ interviews, why modern...
Watch the Skies / Alien plus Magnetic Rose ft Oneohtrix Point Never — Reviewed
In a special collaboration, Jodrell Bank Observatory and Abandon Normal Devices have, finds Dave Tate, created a “stunning”, transformative and ambitious marriage of technology, film, art and music… Long before we had the technology explore it, the...