Blast off: This year's edition of the North Carolina festival demonstrated a robust hunger among post-pandemic audiences for challenging experimental film, video, and performance work
Fresh faces: Vadim Rizov and Beatrice Loayza join to discuss this year’s lineup of films by emerging directors, including Earth Mama, Safe Place, The Face of the Jellyfish, and more
Nightlight: C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s new feature is a black-and-white West African folk tale in which the actors glow against a backdrop of ocean and forest
Oceanic feeling: the German filmmaker talks about his latest, a slyly comedic chamber piece, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at last month’s Berlinale
Undercurrents: this year’s Berlin Critics’ Week focused on “sur-realism,” a mode of Latin American filmmaking that doesn’t imagine an escape from reality but instead is fully, vividly, nightmarishly of it.
Binary systems: two Berlinale standouts, Our Body and Orlando, My Political Biography grapple productively with the boundaries between subjective and objective experience
