Love on the rocks: Both Sides of the Blade is Claire Denis’ latest exploration of the dissonances between body and language—or, as critic Leo Goldsmith puts it, “discourse and meatspace”
Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish joins as a moderator during Locarno Film Festival's continuous 24-hour talk. Tune in on August 10 at 10am EST and August 11 at 2am EST!
The Film Comment Podcast: Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler on NYC's avant-garde
Artists of the light: two greats of the American avant-garde join us for a look back at moviemaking and movie-going in the New York of the early '60s
By Jonathan Mackris Aesthetics and politics: a new reader from The Visible Press offers a bracing introduction to Afterimage's ever-curious, ever-relevant quest for the contours of a radical cinema
Together forever: Alice Diop’s We is an associative tour of working-class suburbs, a meditation on the varying visions of French nationalism, and a grappling with the slippery politics of representing the underrepresented
Old ways: Qiu Jiongjiong’s first fiction feature a portrait of the artist as a historical being, subject to all the contingencies of material existence
Future shock: the designer of the new anti-capitalist sci-fi musical discusses his inventive world-building and the inspirations it draws from Rwandan culture
