There’s something of the fever dream in Gerald Slota’s videos. They hit you with their strange dream logic, a barrage of images, movement, songs. But like most dreams, they linger in your memory. We were grateful for a chance to ask Gerald Slota a few questions about his videos.
Andrew Robinson discusses the enduring legacy of Satyajit Ray, and tells the story of the alien movie that never got made and its striking similarities to a very familiar film.
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
“As a form of resistance to the unblinking long take, Maria smashes her eyelids tightly shut, inhabiting her own privacy for the first time that night.”
A wonderful essay on Chantal Ackerman’s first film Saute ma ville by film critic Adrian Martin.
The film is like a poem of a dream, composed in movements, and alternating between scenes of blissful young lovers naked in bed, surreal and frightening images that serve as worrying metaphors for pregnancy, and documentary footage of people on the Rue Mouffetard. In 17 minutes the film covers the cycle of life — childhood, youth, old age, infirmity, death — but in not in any logical order, rather in the bewildering way that life moves or that we move through life.
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Penny Folger examines Barbara Loden’s sad and beautiful film Wanda, an often-overlooked landmark in American cinema.
When you’re an artist, when you care about something very much and have no one to share it with, the world can feel very cold.
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
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