Festivals

Explosive material: our first dispatch from TIFF touches on Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter, eco-terrorist thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and more

Work and play: scholar Kevin B. Lee discusses how labor, pleasure, and the special state of attention that we call cinema

Future days: artist Hito Steyerl talks about maintaining techno-optimism and the distinction between attention and voyeurism

Pushing the limit: Julia Murat, director of the Golden Leopard-winning Rule 34, joins to discuss her boundary-pushing film

Screentime: philosopher Noa Levin and curator Giovanni Carmine join to explore the spaces and infrastructures of attention

In dreams: though heavyweight auteurs turned in commendable work at Locarno 2022, the festival was once again defined by less established talents

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”

Looking ahead: the German filmmaker talks about her Locarno standout, Human Flowers of Flesh, and the ways in which her practice is rooted in embodied and communal experiences of time and space

Flickering myth: at a plein air cinema up in the Greek mountains, cine-pilgrims gather every four years for the ongoing premiere of Gregory Markopoulos's Eniaios