(and where to see them)

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

YouTube video by Gillian Welch - Topic

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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I’ve been a fan of Basma Alsharif’s work since I saw her first film, We Began By Measuring Distance, however many years ago.

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