archive

2024:

• “The Garden Cadences,” nonlinearities. 22nd April 2024. (essay)

• “Silence of Reason,” nonlinearities. 19th March 2024. (essay)

• “Cutscenes: The Medium is You, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s Interactive Digital Archives,” Notebook, 6th February 2024. (column)

2023:

• “Honor Among Lovers, Elegant Beast, Black God, White Deal, Typhoon Club, Worlds: Selected Works by Ben Rivers,” Little White Lies 101. 6th December 2023. (capsules)

• “The Night of the Hunted, Following, The Long Farewell, Blood and Black Lace, The Guard From Underground, Visible Secret,” Little White Lies 100. 13th September 2023. (capsules)

• “10: Nowhere Near,” nonlinearities. 8th September 2023. (essay)

• “Cutscenes: Critical Optimism, Angela Washko’s Online Interventions,” Notebook. 29th August 2023. (column)

• “The Hotspot, Inland Empire, The Driver’s Seat, The Song of Songs, Smooth Talk,” Little White Lies 99. 4th June 2023. (capsules)

• “sensor_BAS+JM: Persephone Period by Bassam Al-Sabah & Jennifer Mehigan,” 2nd June 2023. (co-editor, publication)

• “09: Anhell69,” nonlinearities. 1st May 2023. (essay)

• “Berlinale Forum 2023,” Art Monthly. 6th April 2023. (festival report)

• “Cutscenes: “Gotta Go Fast!” Speedrunning Awesome Games Done Quick 2023,” Notebook. 3rd April 2023. (column)

• “The Kiss Before the Mirror, Kamikaze Hearts, Naked Lunch, The Man on the Roof, Thamp, Wanda,” Little White Lies 98. 22nd March 2022. (capsules)

• “Let It Take Over: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023,” Notebook. 16th February 2023. (festival report)

• “The Juniper Tree, The Big Gundown, .Com For Murder, Violent Streets, Imitation of Life, El Mar La Mar,” Little White Lies 97. 9th January 2022. (capsules)

2022:

• “Cutscenes: Breaking the Rules with Total Refusal,” Notebook. 12th December 2022. (column)

• “From Televisual Didacticism to Revolutionary Action: Noriaki Tsuchimoto in the 1960s.” Notebook. 10th November 2022. (essay)

• “The Son of the White Mare, Croupier, Remember the Night, Nil By Mouth, Mississippi Masala, The Working Class Goes to Heaven,” Little White Lies 96. 3rd November 2022. (capsules)

• “08: Lake Forest Park,” nonlinearities. 20th September 2022. (essay)

• “It Is Night in America,” Open City Documentary Festival 2022. 2nd September 2022. (essay)

• “A Fugitive from the Past, The Swimmer, Burning An Illusion, Righting Wrongs, Twilight, Eve’s Bayou,” Little White Lies 95. 30th August 2022. (capsules)

• “Now we can see the faces: Chan Tze-woon on Blue Island,” Metrograph. 27th July 2022. (interview)

• “Deep Breath: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2022,” Film Comment (Newsletter). 26th July 2022. (festival report)

• “Putney Swope, Luminous Procuress, Man Marked For Death, love jones, Faithless, Twentynine Palms,” Little White Lies 94. 23rd June 2022. (capsules)

• “07: Huahua's Dazzling World and its Myriad Temptations, A Long Journey Home,” nonlinearities. 1st June 2022. (essay)

• “My Two Voices: Two Continents, Two Climates, Two Cultures,” Frames of Representation 2022. 20th April 2022. (essay)

• “True/False 2022,” Sight & Sound May 2022. 31st March 2022. (festival report)

• “Bronco Bullfrog,” Film Comment (Newsletter). 30th March 2022. (capsule)

• “The Camera Is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Filmmakers, Pale Flower, A Time for Dying, Crazy Thunder Road, Boat People, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer,” Little White Lies 93. 10th March 2022. (capsules)

• “Berlinale Forum 2022,” Art Monthly. 4th March 2022. (festival report)

• “The Novelist’s Film,” Little White Lies. 17th February 2022. (review)

• “Everything Will Be OK,” Little White Lies. 16th February 2022. (review)

• “Anatomy of Time,” Sight & Sound. 16th February 2022. (review)

• “06: The Plains,” nonlinearities. 9th February 2022. (essay)

• “The Gains and Losses of Online Film Festivals,” frieze. 4th February 2022. (festival report)

• “In Conversation: Apichatpong Weerasethakul,” Little White Lies 92. 10th January 2022. (interview)

• “Hiruko the Goblin, The Sun Shines Bright,” Little White Lies 92. 10th January 2022. (capsules)

• “05: Crestone, Atlantide,” nonlinearities. 4th January 2022. (essay)

 2021:

• “Sentient Bulletin 010,” 21st December 2021. (editor, newsletter)

• “Ten great Japanese documentaries,” BFI. 18th November 2021. (feature)

• “All Light Everywhere: The Apparatuses of Vision,” Frames of Representation 2021. 10th November 2021. (essay)

• “Out of the Blue, Sailor Suit and Machine Gun,” Little White Lies 91. 5th November 2021. (capsules)

• “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn,” Little White Lies 91. 5th November 2021. (review)

• “IDFA 2021: The Future Tense,” IDFA 2021. 2nd November 2021. (essay)

• “San Sebastián International Film Festival 2021: Three from the Spanish-Speaking World,” Filmmaker Magazine. 6th October 2021. (festival report)

• “Sentient Bulletin 009,” 5th October 2021. (editor, newsletter)

• “04: Odoriko,” nonlinearities. 5th September 2021. (essay)

• “Sentient Bulletin 008,” 31st August 2021. (editor, newsletter)

• “The Psychic, The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch, ” Little White Lies 90. 27th August 2021. (capsules)

• “The Fever,” Little White Lies. 5th August 2021. (review)

• “El Father Plays Himself,” Little White Lies. 5th August 2021. (review)

• “Sentient Bulletin 007,” 28th August 2021. (editor, newsletter)

• “03: Summer, Winter,” nonlinearities. 24th July 2021. (essay)

• “Slow and Slack Time: Sheffield Doc/Fest’s 2021 Arts Programme,” Alt/Kino. 7th July 2021. (festival report)

• “The Margins of the Tail End of a Year of Online Events: Visions du Réel and CPH:DOX 2021,” Notebook. 2nd July 2021. (festival report)

• “Sentient Bulletin 006,” 29th June 2021. (editor, newsletter)

• “02: All About My Sisters,” nonlinearities. 16th June 2021. (essay)

• “Ernst Karel, Caspar Newbolt, in ‘Hidden Heroes of Cinema’,” Sight & Sound Summer 2021. 11th June 2021. (capsules)

• “Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival 2021,” Art Monthly 447. 27th May 2021. (festival report)

• “Sentient Bulletin 005,” 25th May 2021. (editor, newsletter)

• “01: Shared Resources,” nonlinearities. 17th May 2021. (essay)

• “Bottled Songs 1-4: in conversation with Kevin B. Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné,” Public Parking. 13th May 2021. (interview)

• “The Sky Is Not The Limit: Erika Balsom on Ten Skies,” Little White Lies 89. 5th May 2021. (interview feature)

• “Gunda,” Little White Lies 89. 5th May 2021. (review)

• “Radio On, Time and Tide,” Little White Lies 89. 5th May 2021. (capsules)

• “Sentient Bulletin 004, “ 27th April 2021. (editor, newsletter)

• “Interview: Fox Maxy,” The Brooklyn Rail April 2021. 7th April 2021. (interview)

• “Tzarevna Scaling: a contemporary coming-of-age story set in a Tatar baroque dreamworld,” The Calvert Journal. 2nd April 2021. (interview feature)

• “Berlinale Forum 2021,” Art Monthly 445. 1st April 2021. (festival report)

• “Hopelessness Is Boring: Alexandre Koberidze on His film What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?," Notebook. 31st March 2021. (interview)

• “Sentient Bulletin 003,” 30th March 2021. (editor, newsletter)

• “An Interview with Su Hui-Yu: Ghost Traces of the Original in The Woman's Revenge,” Notebook. 12th March 2021. (interview)

• “We Leave Together: Two films by the Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers,” MAP Magazine. 11th March 2021. (feature)

• “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy,” Little White Lies. 4th March 2021. (review)

• “Shengze Zhu on A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces,” Filmmaker Magazine. 2nd March 2021. (interview)

• “Introduction,” Little White Lies. 2nd March 2021. (review)

• “Endings: Pulse,” Sight & Sound April 2021. 1st March 2021. (essay)

• “Shoreline Movements,” Burlington Contemporary. 26th Feb 2021. (review)

• “Kaori Oda: Films to Know People Near and Far,” Monographs (Asian Film Archive). 26th Feb 2021. (essay)

• “Overnight Film Festival: Some Reflections,” 25th Feb 2021. (editor, publication)

• “Sentient Bulletin 002,” 16th Feb 2021. (editor, newsletter)

• “Tales from the Urban Jungle: Brute Force and The Naked City, Viy,” Little White Lies 88. 15th Feb 2021. (capsules)

• “Taming the Garden: Salome Jashi’s documentary poses a singular question - what is a tree really worth?”, The Calvert Journal. 10th Feb 2021. (interview feature)

• “The People's Demands Are Lawful: Jill Li's Lost Course,” The Brooklyn Rail February 2021. 3rd Feb 2021, (feature)

• “Jessica Beshir on Faya Dayi,” Filmmaker Magazine. 1st Feb 2021 (interview)

• “Travel Through Videogames,” New Rules. 27th Jan 2021. (feature, with illustrations by Steph Watts)

• “Not Home, But Back: Looking for America in Route One/USA,” Notebook. 26th Jan 2021. (feature)

• “Explore life in the margins at the 18th Document Film Festival,” Little White Lies. 22nd Jan 2021. (preview)

• “Sentient Bulletin 001,” 19th Jan 2021. (editor, newsletter)

• “Mayor,” Little White Lies. 4th Jan 2021. (review)

2020:

• “How You Live Your Story: Selected Works By Kevin Jerome Everson,” Sight & Sound Winter 2020. 14th Dec 2020. (review)

• “Khalik Allah: Looking and Listening,” Frames of Representation 2020. 27th Nov 2020. (essay)

• “From Trump's failures to frustration in Wuhan: the rise of Covid documentaries,” The Guardian. 23rd Nov 2020. (feature)

• “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes, Goodbye, Dragon Inn,” Little White Lies 87. 9th Nov 2020. (capsules)

• “Collective,” Little White Lies 87. 9th Nov 2020. (review)

• “Non-Fiction 02 - NETWORK,” 1st Nov 2020. (editor, publication)

• “The Times of Harvey Milk,” Sight & Sound December 2020. 2nd Nov 2020. (review)

• “State of the Festival: Sheffield Doc/Fest Reimagines the Land,” Notebook. 30th Oct 2020. (festival report)

• “Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2020,” Art Monthly 441. 29th Oct 2020. (festival report)

• “Let’s hear it for documentary’s most unlikely stars,” The Sunday Telegraph. 18th Oct 2020. (feature)

• “From the darkest chapters of Czech history, Shadow Country delves into the hidden evil of the human psyche,” The Calvert Journal. 14th Oct 2020. (interview feature)

• “FID Marseille 2020: A Living Archive,” The Brooklyn Rail October 2020. 8th Oct 2020. (festival report)

• “Documentaries to discover at the BFI London Film Festival 2020,” Little White Lies. 5th Oct 2020. (preview)

• “Led by the Imagination: A roundtable on nonfiction writing and making with Devika Girish and Rooney Elmi,” Field of Vision. 30th Sept 2020 (roundtable).

• “The Creative Approach One Filmmaker Is Taking to Depict the Hong Kong Protests,” Hyperallergic, 28th Sept 2020. (interview feature)

• “An intimate portrait of NYC’s Black, queer, homeless youth,” HUCK, 23rd Sept 2020. (interview)

• “Made in Hong Kong, Mademoiselle, Hanagatami, Hiroshima,” Little White Lies 86. 10th Sept 2020. (capsules)

• “The Woman in the Dunes, Death by Hanging, Throw Away Your Books, Rally In The Streets, and The Shiranui Sea, in ‘The best Japanese film of every year - from 1925 to now’,” BFI, 8th July 2020. (capsules)

• ”Me and the Cult Leader,” Little White Lies. 29th June 2020. (interview feature)

• “The Shape of Things To Come: Philosophy For Living,” The Brooklyn Rail June 2020. 8th June 2020. (feature)

• “If we burn, you burn with us: a taste of Hong Kong’s protests in four films," Sight & Sound, 3rd June 2020. (feature)

• “Barefoot Gen, Mind Game, Summer Wars, in ‘50 Essential Anime Films’,” Sight & Sound Summer 2020. 25th May 2020. (capsules)

• “Return to Epipo: director Judit Olah on breaking the silence on Hungary’s summer camp abuse scandal,” The Calvert Journal, 22nd April 2020. (interview feature,)

• “Non-Fiction 01 - POWER,” 1st April 2020. (editor, publication)

• “Five New East Films from CPH:DOX,” The Calvert Journal, 31st March 2020. (feature)

• “The Whalebone Box,” Little White lies 84. 9th March 2020. (review)

• “AIDOL,” Hyperallergic, 11th February 2020. (feature)

• “Midnight Family,” Little White Lies 83. 20th February 2020. (review)

• “Present.Perfect,” Little White Lies 83. 11th February 2020. (review)

2019:

• “Scottish documentaries look to the world,” Sight & Sound. 13th December 2019 (interview feature, co-authored with Chloe Trayner)

• “The Cave,” Little White Lies 82. 5th December 2019 (review)

• “Heimat is a Space in Time,” Little White Lies 82. 21st November 2019 (review)

• “The Amazing Johnathan Documentary,” Little White Lies 82. 17th November 2019 (review)

• “Animistic Apparatus: cinema for the spirits,” Sight & Sound. 13th November 2019. (interview feature)

• “North Korea as a Multifaceted State Instead of a Boogeyman,” Hyperallergic. 9th November 2019. (feature)

• “Talking Things Through: Lucy Parker's Solidarity,” The Brooklyn Rail September 2019. 8th September 2019. (feature)

• “Rainer Kohlberger: Chronicle of a shimmer,” Sight & Sound October 2019. 2nd September 2019. `(feature)

• "Lei Lei on Breathless Animals,” Edge of Frame. 20th August 2019. (interview)

• “Charlotte Pryce: Studies in Natural Magic,” Another Gaze 03. August 2019. (essay)

• “Reclaiming failure: Zia Anger’s My First Film performance,” Sight & Sound. 26th June 2019. (feature)

• “Handsworth Songs, Two Years At Sea, I For India and Abandoned Goods in ‘100 Mould Breaking British Films’”. Little White Lies 80. 21st June 2019. (capsules)

• “One Thousand Layer Cinema: A Conversation with Takashi Makino,” Notebook. 24th June 2019. (interview)

• “Japanese experimental documentary now,” Sight & Sound. 21st June 2019. (feature)

• “Dominga Sotomayor: ‘I wanted emotions, not big events,” Little White Lies 80. 24th May 2019. (interview)

• “Losing Control of the Nightclub: Everybody in the Place,” The Brooklyn Rail May 2019. 8th May 2019 (feature)

• “CPH DOX 2019: Begrudging Optimism and Much Gloom,” frieze. 12th April 2019 (feature)

• “Postcard from IFFR 2019: Down the Rabbit Hole,” Little White Lies 79. 5th April 2019. (feature)

• “Nervous Translation,” Little White Lies 79. 5th April 2019. (review)

• “Art within the machine: how machinima turns the camera on videogames,” Sight & Sound. 2nd April 2019. (feature)

• “Blackout: sliding out of obsolescence,” Sight & Sound. 28th February 2019. (feature)

• “Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia,” Hyperallergic. February 7th 2019. (feature)

• “Can a documentary film festival help open up Central Asia?,” Sight & Sound. 23rd January 2019. (feature)

• “Hale County This Evening, This Morning,” Little White Lies 78. 10th January 2019. (review)

2018:

• “Expectations Upended: Doclisboa 2018,” The Brooklyn Rail December 2018. 8th December 2018. (festival report)

• “Los Otros: building an experimental film community in the Philippines,” Sight & Sound. 23rd November 2019. (interview feature)

• “Radio Brain Smurfs: Edwin Rostron And The Supreme Vagabond Craftsman,“ The Quietus. 7th October 2018. (feature)

• “Exploring film heritage and imagined territories at DocLisboa 2018,” Little White Lies. 5th November 2018. (feature)

• “The fabric of freedom: Laura Huertas Millán’s ethnographic filmmaking,” Sight & Sound. 8th September 2019. (feature)

• “Dedicated to the One I Love: Interview with Zita Erffa,” Kinoscope. 3rd September 2018. (interview)

• “A new documentary boldly challenges our perceptions of death,” Little White Lies. 19th August 2018. (feature)

• “Nathaniel Dorsky’s Arboretum Cycle: the photosynthesis of film,” Sight & Sound. 31st July 2018. (feature)

• “Scott Barley’s eternal gloaming,” Sight & Sound. 31st July 2018. (interview feature)

• “Sandi Tan: Freedom is found by building worlds inside your head,“ Little White Lies 76. 31st July 2018. (interview).

• “Cinema is Memory: Interview with Liyrc Dela Cruz,” Kinoscope. 20th July 2018. (interview)

• “Dismantling Divisions: NEW:VISION(s) at CPH:DOX 2018,” Senses of Cinema. 20th June 2018. (festival report)

• “The best new sports documentaries to look out for in 2018,” Little White Lies. 17th June 2018. (feature)

• “Frames of Representation 2018: The Human Epoch,” Brooklyn Rail June 2018. 8th June 2018. (festival report)

• “The eye-popping, pioneering history of 3D cinema,” Little White Lies. 5th June 2018. (feature)

• “Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, in ‘Can movies save the world?’,” Little White Lies 75. 11th May 2018. (capsule)

• “Salome Lamas: Nationhood and Identity,” Frames of Representation 2018. 11th April 2018 (feature)

• “What does it mean to come of age in the modern world?,” Little White Lies. 20th March 2018. (feature)

• “Cosmogonical Cinema: Animation as a way to weld new worlds,” Edge of Frame Weekender 2018. 13th March 2018. (essay)

• “Margaret Salmon in the round,” Sight & Sound. 10th March 2018. (feature)

• “El Mar La Mar,” BOMB Magazine. 28th Feb 2018. (review)

• “International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018," art-agenda, 8th February 2018. (festival report)

• “SLEEPCINEMAHOTEL: Apichatpong curates our dreams in Rotterdam,” Sight & Sound. 5th February 2018. (feature)

• “Postcard from IDFA 2017: Taking Stock,” Little White Lies 73. 10th January 2018. (feature)

• “The Final Year,” Little White Lies 73. 10th January 2018. (review)

2017:

• “IDFA 2017: Steady Rise of Chinese Documentaries,” Kinoscope. 15th December 2017. (feature)

• “No Money, No Future: Two Documentaries by Jung Yoon-suk,” Notebook. 19th December 2017) (essay)

• “Jane,” Little White Lies 74. 20th November 2017. (review)

• “Celebrating the centenary of Japanese animation at LEAFF 2017,” Little White Lies. 2nd November 2017 (feature)

• “Liveness and Agency: Berwick New Cinema 2017,” Notebook. 31st October 2017. (feature)

• “The film collective exploring the intersection between feminism and horror,” Little White Lies. 25th October 2017. (interview feature)

• “Archival Vérité: David France Talks about The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson,” Notebook. 5th October 2017. (interview)

• “The Lure,” Little White Lies 73. 7th September 2017. (review)

• “Unortho-docs at Locarno 70,” The Brooklyn Rail Sept 2017, 8th September 2017. (festival report)

• “People Should Be Taken Care Of: Valérie Massadian Discusses Milla," Notebook. 28th August 2017. (interview)

• “Exploring Brazilian cinema’s experimental side at the 70th Locarno Film Festival,” Little White Lies. 25th August 2017. (feature)

• “4 American Independent Films That Played Well For European Audiences In 2017,” Indiewire. 23rd August 2017. (feature)

• “Sompot Chidgasornpong on Railway Sleepers,” Bertha DocHouse. 23rd August 2017. (interview)

• “Actress Golshifteh Farahani on Anup Singh’s The Song of Scorpions,” Variety. 9th August 2017. (interview, co-authored with Jaime Grijalba)

• “Shelter and Sanctuary: Close-Up on Jorge Thielen Armand’s La Soledad," Notebook. 18th August 2017. (essay)

• “Imagined Futures: shorts at Shubbak film festival 2017,” Little White Lies. 4th July 2017. (interview feature)

• “How cinema is challenging the narrative around the Syria crisis,” Little White Lies. 8th June 2017. (feature)

• “Why Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust remains essential viewing,” Little White Lies. 1st June 2017. (feature)

• “Highlights Reel: CPH:DOX 2017,” Senses of Cinema. 1st June 2017 (festival report)

• “The Cremaster Cycle: Is this the weirdest series of films ever made?,” Little White Lies. 30th April 2017. (feature)

• “The Illinois Parables: A staggering new film tells the story of faith in America,” Little White Lies. 14th May 2017. (feature)

• “Camera-Eye: Babette Mangolte,” DISPATCH Feminist Moving Image. 8th May 2017. (essay)

• “New East documentaries: five of the best upcoming non-fiction films,” The Calvert Journal. 20th April 2017. (feature)

• “Blurred realties at CPH:DOX 2017,” Little White Lies. 4th April 2017. (feature, from CPH:DOX 2017)

• “Interview: Salome Lamas” BOMB Magazine. 10th April 2017. (interview)

• “Salome Lamas: Landscape cinema in a human mode," Frames of Representation 2017. 23rd April 2017. (essay)

• “The Human Surge: What does it mean to live and work in the digital present?” Little White Lies. 15th March 2017. (feature)

• “Medium As Message: Documentary at IFFR 2017,” International Documentary Association. 7th March 2017. (feature)

2016:

• “Is experimental animation on the rise?.” Little White Lies. 21st December 2016. (interview feature)

• “The lives of Korean women as seen through the eyes of female directors,” Little White Lies. 29th November 2016. (feature)

• “How cinema is rewriting the Middle East narrative," Little White Lies. 7th November 2016. (feature)

• “Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Frames of Representation 2016,” Millennium Film Journal 54. pp.16-20. October 2016. (festival report)

• “How contemporary Arab cinema is challenging perceptions of the region,” Little White Lies. 14th September 2016. (feature)

• “Constructed Realities at Karlovy Vary 2016,” International Documentary Association. 3rd August 2016. (feature)

• “Meet the young female directors leading Mexico’s cinema revolution,” Little White Lies. 14th July 2016. (feature)

• “Berwick 2015: Time, Space, Structure & Process,” Festivalists. September 2015, (festival report)