writer, film curator, programmer | he/they | renscateni AT gmail DOT com丨🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
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21 Apr 2024
my latest review from @ArtReview_ asia spring issue is also available to read online! this one took quite a long editorial back-and-forth to get published but i'm so happy to see it making it to print. FLOWERS OF BELAU is such a dreamy, composite work 🌺
28 Mar 2024
Chikako Yamashiro’s new film is the latest to explore historical memory, war trauma and the geopolitical situation of her homeland, Okinawa artreview.com/flowers-of-bel…
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27 Apr 2024
such a fantastic 16mm screening of fukuda katsuhiko's A GRASSCUTTER'S TALE as part of @OpenCityDocs at @ICALondon 🌾
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27 Apr 2024
manual labour as a grounding routine not devoid of hardships and heartbreaks; growing old and learning to savour life in all its joy and sorrow; hands at work, grass, farming as an anticapitalist tool of resistance -
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27 Apr 2024
this incredible portrait of a woman in her late 80s also brought to mind the unforgettable hospital scene in soda kazuhiro's INLAND SEA as well as some of haneda sumiko's docs
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26 Apr 2024
really sad news but not an unexpected one. i was head of programme at encounters (2021 - 2023), working in a team of 3 ( temps) under extremely poor circumstances. true, funding cuts and austerity are to blame but myopic & toxic leadership is complicit
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26 Apr 2024
tonight! hope to see some of you there!
26 Apr 2024
Violent passions are unleashed at a remote Japanese boarding school in Summer Vacation 1999, a rediscovered classic that offers a strikingly androgynous exploration of teenage yearning and desire.
Fri 26 Apr, 20:40 @BFI intro by @whateverren: queereast.org.uk/event/summe…
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17 Apr 2024
ICYMI, our just-o'er-the-border neighbours @berwickfilmfest commissioned Alchemy Trustee @whateverren to write on Fujisawa Isao’s Bye Bye Love (1974) as part of their 19th edition last month.
A critique, very much, to pique!
bfmaf.org/essay/this-transie…
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27 Mar 2024
Actually shameful behaviour from @HOME_mcr I’m embarrassed for you
Art is political, as is so much of the art you display/feature at what is a publicly funded Manchester multi arts centre
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20 Mar 2024
thinking back to this silly little announcement
ten shorts! all world premieres! what a concept!
20 Mar 2024
When a festival upholds this, countless opportunities are missed while filmmakers hold out false hope. I understand that festivals feel they need to do whatever they can to attract audiences but I can almost guarantee the premiere status of a short has never sold a ticket.
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20 Mar 2024
Great thread on festival premiere status, a concept that should have been ditched long ago — especially for short films which have slim to no avenues for distribution outside of festivals.
19 Mar 2024
In November of this year, @visionsdureel contacted me about my submission, saying they were potentially interested but would have to make final decisions later. All good, nice that they liked the piece. 1/
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19 Mar 2024
We’re turning five this year! Explore queer cinema, performances, arts and cultures from East and Southeast Asia in our most ambitious programme yet.
#QueerEast Festival takes place 17-28 April in venues across London. Discover the line-up: queereast.org.uk/festival-20…
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20 Mar 2024
While that other list is going viral, let’s also take a look at this list of 6,000 filmmakers, actors, curators, film critics, & other workers essential to the international film industry that stand FOR Palestine. @FW4Palestine #FreePalestine #CeaseFireNow filmworkersforpalestine.org/
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19 Mar 2024
i saw a film critic who posts exclusively to a wordpress blog proudly mention having signed this so that’s the level of “creatives and professionals” you’re looking at here
Over 1,000 Jewish creatives and professionals have now denounced Jonathan Glazer’s "Zone of Interest" Oscars speech in an open letter.
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19 Mar 2024
finally made my @talking_shorts debut with
many thanks to @NielsPutman 🙏
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16 Mar 2024
much gratitude to the @berwickfilmfest team who kindly invited me to contribute to their festival catalogue with an essay on fujisawa isao's BYE BYE LOVE 🥺
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16 Mar 2024
it was a truly rewarding exercise to historically contextualise the film while also surveying its prescient and contemporary representation of queer sexuality and non conforming gender identity
also thanks to @CollabJapanFilm for introducing me to the film!
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you can also find a fantastic essay by @whateverren on Bye Bye Love in our festival catalogue
9 Mar 2024
was blown away by the recently found late-Japanese New Wave gem BYE BYE LOVE (1974) by Isao Fujisawa @berwickfilmfest: a queer, psychedelic fever dream about a man who shoots a cop and goes on the lam with his genderfluid shoplifting lover through the countryside.
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26 Feb 2024
In light of Berlinale’s completely unhinged (yet unsurprising to anyone who has been following Germany’s behavior in recent months) statements, I think this ‘bears’ repeating…
2 Nov 2023
in light of the recent TIFF and Oberhausen statements, I'd like to note that it's film festivals whose existence depend on filmmakers, and not the other way around.
Building community, engaged programmers, setting up screenings? ALL ESSENTIAL.
Festivals? It really depends.
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