Graphic images: the Romanian director—whose film was the talk of the Locarno film festival—grapples with guilt and pleasure vis-à-vis art and culture in the context of war
Virtual reality: highlights from this year's edition include Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World and Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3, both informed by our digitally-dominated daily life
Blue in the face: the best films at this year’s Locarno—like Helena Wittman’s Human Flowers of Flesh—invited contemplation rather than mere comprehension
Explosive imagery: in a live talk recorded at Locarno '22, the Palestinian filmmaker joined to discuss the ways in which his work draws attention to the “camera of the dispossessed”
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