Guest post by Cole Nelson and Mallika Khanna. InLight 2022 seeks to situate contemporary documentary filmmaking in relation to the growing catastrophes which have shaped modern life by understanding documentary as a unique tool in the struggle for social transformation. What’s more, we wish to use the filmgoing experience as a preface for rigorous, thorough,… Read more »
Guest post by Jawshing Arthur Liou. My son was particularly curious about where he came from when he was 7 or 8. His sister passed away before he was born. There is a black hole in his memory about a person who is supposed to be so close to him and yet remains as an… Read more »
Guest post by David Church. If or when a person views pornography today, it’s not likely in public, in polite company, or with aesthetic appreciation in mind. This is because mainstream pornography is often considered cheaply made, politically damaging, or crudely single-minded in its purpose: turning a person on or helping get them off. While… Read more »
In 1984, Taiwanese actor and martial artist John Liu directed and starred in his only American production, an action comedy shot on location called New York Ninja. Once filming was completed, however, the project was dropped with the footage abandoned in a film lab and many other materials missing. It seemed that the world would… Read more »
One of the most important figures in African film, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra is a name that deserves to be better known. After directing the first substantial film by a French-speaking sub-Saharan African, Afrique sur Seine, in 1955, Vieyra went on to become the first African admitted to study at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques… Read more »
With her mesmerizing debut feature Faya Dayi, Ethiopian-Mexican filmmaker Jessica Beshir returned to her hometown of Harar to document its rural Oromo community of farmers and the harvesting of the khat plant, the country’s most desired export. Photographed in swooning black and white, Beshir’s Oscar-shortlisted film is both a loving tribute to Ethiopia and a… Read more »