Alex Fields on Peter Bundy and how his evolving structuralist approach trained a perceptive eye and ear on the idiosyncrasies and profundities of regional American life and landscapes.

plus Chinese avant-garde films, early Japanese video art, a free online program, and some other things

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Alex Fields reports from this year's Big Ears in Knoxville, delving into the music festival's far-reaching lineup, moods and spaces.

An interview with the Welsh fingerpicking guitarist about the blues, how her "piss-poor attention span" informs her compositional approach, and her album 'Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark' (2025)

A new film festival dispatch from 2026 Cinema du Reel for film review site in Review Online.

There are frequent reasons to lament the documentary takeover of experimental film programming, but Cinéma du Réel is never one of them.

An interview with the filmmaking duo about Umberto Eco, capturing obsession on film, and the ideas and stories behind their debut feature 'Chronovisor' (2026), the highlight of this year's IFFR

IFFR is one of the most exciting programs for me each year, not just because of the sheer number of films and the high proportion of formalist and experimental work, but because of the unusually stron...

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An interview with the Palestinian filmmaker about the complexity of spreading violent images, capturing displacement in art through form and presentation, and the shame that comes with giving up

Cheers to opacity, anachronism, interruption, and the impossible thought of revolution.

Alex Fields speaks with Shinya Isobe about the gradual development of his experimental approach, time and cinema, the dynamic presence of sound in his work, and more.

A new film festival coverage piece on the 2025 Knox Film Fest for film review site In Review Online.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a panorama of wild Romantic landscapes: the physical ones of Europe, the social ones of class society and Western literature, and the moral and creative ones of the mind...