"LIGHT NEEDS & botanical shorts," screening at the @wifilmfest on April 6, features filmmakers like Jesse McLean and Magdalena Bermudez using their medium not just for artistic musing but for translation—mapping plant consciousness, @PostPostPunk writes.
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ALT In "Light Needs," a woman (Nazli Dinçel) with frizzy long hair wearing floral attire faces away from the camera on the left. She adjusts her fairly large succulent houseplant on a table that is receiving direct sunlight on the right.
ALT A still from "Parallel Botany" shows a magnifying glass enlarging the pink and white petals of a flower on the right at a close-up. Behind it on the left are small/large stems and slices of exotic fruit.
Onion City Film Fest's incredible competition programs lineup. Six programs from Friday, April 4 through Sunday, April 6 @ChiFilmmakers Firehouse! onioncityfilmfest.org/2025-c…
A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.
Make time for this one - feels like a minor compliment to "inland empire" in tone and theme - especially in the way it creates obscurity by constantly distorting and filtering its characters (and their art) through digital spaces. Egoyan's eye is a real treat.
Neither here nor there but I see very little acknowledgement of guerilla TV stuff in the “TV vs. movies” debate. David Hall’s TV Interruptions, for instance, are both great experimental video work and specific to the temporality of live broadcast
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