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TIFF Remembrance of Things to Come Series: Remembrance of Things to Come (2003)

TIFF Remembrance of Things to Come Series: Remembrance of Things to Come (2003)

By Doug Heller

Chris Marker teamed with filmmaker Yannick Bellon to create Remembrance of Things to Come (2003), a photo essay set to film that documents the work of director Bellon’s mother, photographer Denise Bellon. Now is where description becomes difficult, as the film has an almost surr... Read More »

TIFF Remembrance of Things to Come Series: The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)

TIFF Remembrance of Things to Come Series: The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)

By Doug Heller

Chris Marker’s The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1967), co-directed by Francois Reichengach, draws its title from a Zen proverb reading “If the five sides of the pentagon appear impregnable, attack the sixth side.” If that sounds enigmatic, it is but it is also a great place to st... Read More »

TIFF Remembrance of Things to Come Series: La Jetée (1962)

TIFF Remembrance of Things to Come Series: La Jetée (1962)

By Doug Heller

La Jetée is an interesting short film from the legendary (and recently deceased) French filmmaker Chris Marker. Not only is it interesting in its plot, that of a boy who sees his own death take place in front of him (more on that in a moment), but that it is told without moving ... Read More »

Review: Reboot (2012)

Review: Reboot (2012)

By Ronan Doyle

“You’re glued to that thing,” my mother would moan in my youth when, enticed by the enveloping glow of whatever new gadget found its way into my palm—be it Gameboy, phone, MP3 player perhaps—I would grow further and further distanced from the physical world, trading tangible for ... Read More »

Subversive Saturday: The Games of Angels (1965)

By Matthew Blevins

The ominous rumbling of trains provides the foreboding soundtrack in anticipation of the horrors of our unknown destination. Terrified breaths in the dark echo that of the audience, both audience and passenger unsure of what darkness hides and ill-comforted by the tepid revelati... Read More »

Subversive Saturday: Window Water Baby Moving (1959)

By Matthew Blevins

Societal norms and the adherence to taboos is a necessity in the successful cohabitation of the members of a population. For order to exist, there have to be certain black and white moral constructs and lines that must never be crossed, but these lines often remain steadfast des... Read More »

Subversive Saturday: Fireworks (1947)

Subversive Saturday: Fireworks (1947)

By Matthew Blevins

The gentle macabre voice of Kenneth Anger ushers in one of the most important and defiantly expressive films in the avant-garde canon, the “homosexual” intonation of his voice offering a beacon of light to the hopelessly lost and subversive confrontation to the unsuspecting react... Read More »

Review: Asian Gangs (2012)

Review: Asian Gangs (2012)

By Ronan Doyle

Posited though it might be as a documentary, Lewis Bennett and Calum McLeod’s witty short Asian Gangs doesn’t take long to divorce itself from reality and take a more farcical, frankly more entertaining turn toward deadpan mockumentary style. Rooted in a schoolyard fight the form... Read More »

Subversive Saturday: Le Vampire (1945)

Subversive Saturday: Le Vampire (1945)

By Matthew Blevins

In keeping with the spirit of this week’s Chiropteramania, I have paused my exploration of Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art in the hopes of joining in on all of this excitement. What better way than with the scientific explorations of Jean Painlevé and his uncanny ability t... Read More »

Subversive Saturday: Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958)

Subversive Saturday: Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958)

By Matthew Blevins

Roman Polanski’s Two Men and a Wardrobe witnesses the emergence of two young men from the depths of the sea, carrying with them a wardrobe that acts as an albatross of unspoken ideological dissonance from the status quo. The nature of their burden is of little consequence, as yo... Read More »

Subversive Saturday: Sunday (1961)

Subversive Saturday: Sunday (1961)

By Matthew Blevins

Age will always seek to suppress youth in varying degrees of severity because of a deep resentment over eroded ideals and waning passions that age and complacency have made the aged forget. The young still live under the (mostly) false assumption that they have the power to chan... Read More »

Subversive Saturday: Las Hurdes (1933)

Subversive Saturday: Las Hurdes (1933)

By Matthew Blevins

Politics are shaded by a collection of unrighteous rulebooks that we self-impose in the aim of fostering the prehistoric tribal instincts of the human animal. The rules lose their power when humanism is valued over nationalism because one objective path must be laid out for the ... Read More »

Subversive Saturday: Dots (1940)

Subversive Saturday: Dots (1940)

By Matthew Blevins

Language is one of those necessary evils that results from a need to communicate objectively in a world of strict rationalism. Its syntax and structure invade our thoughts and dreams and our inner stream of consciousness is often reduced to its clumsily confining borders. Some ... Read More »

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