Revue

An Abundance of Love: Romantic Triangles in Past Lives, The Breaking Ice and Passages

Critics Campus participant Eric Jiang discusses three MIFF films that each deal with love triangles using different narrative approaches – presenting these situations as variously damaging, ambiguous and powerfully transformative.
By Eric Jiang | 15 Aug 2023
Time for Reflection: Master Gardener and the Late-style Transformation of Paul Schrader

Time for Reflection: Master Gardener and the Late-style Transformation of Paul Schrader

Critics Campus participant Kevin Bui examines Paul Schrader’s shift away from narratives of retribution and towards tales of personal growth – culminating in one of his most hopeful, if also most difficult, films.
 Kevin Bui 14 Aug 2023
Deconstructing Authority: William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Deconstructing Authority: William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Critics Campus participant Christy Tan takes a look at the political and aesthetic questions posed by William Greaves’s radical 1968 docufiction experiment.
 Christy Tan 13 Aug 2023
Spectacle of Intimacy: Bodily Landscapes and Resistance in Mast-del and Lotus-Eyed Girl

Spectacle of Intimacy: Bodily Landscapes and Resistance in Mast-del and Lotus-Eyed Girl

Critics Campus participant Erika Lay analyses Mast-del and Lotus-Eyed Girl – two short films that each use the body to interrogate how erotic desire and national identity alike can be constructed and subverted via the act of looking.
 Erika Lay 12 Aug 2023
Between Metamorphoses: Phạm Thiên Ân on Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Between Metamorphoses: Phạm Thiên Ân on Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Critics Campus participant Đăng Tùng Bạch speaks to Phạm Thiên Ân about the making of his Caméra d’Or–winning film and the roles played by location, sound and time in his work.
 Đăng Tùng Bạch 12 Aug 2023
Heaven Is a Derelict Train Car: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster

Heaven Is a Derelict Train Car: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster

Critics Campus participant Lauren Collee discusses the moral ambiguities and absolutes that emerge in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tale of institutional malaise and tentative queer romance.
 Lauren Collee 11 Aug 2023
Carnal Cravings: The Limits of Desire in Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day

Carnal Cravings: The Limits of Desire in Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day

Critics Campus participant Indigo Bailey examines the unsettling and controversial combination of horror and sensuality in Claire Denis’s brutal, beguiling 2001 feature.
 Indigo Bailey 09 Aug 2023
Critics Campus: Where Are They Now? (Part 2)

Critics Campus: Where Are They Now? (Part 2)

We speak to Critics Campus alumni Aimee Knight (2016 cohort), Conor Bateman (2015 cohort) and Claire Cao (2019 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics.
18 May 2023
Critics Campus: Where Are They Now? (Part 1)

Critics Campus: Where Are They Now? (Part 1)

We speak to Critics Campus alumni Michael Sun (2019 cohort), Isabella Trimboli (2019 cohort) and David Heslin (2015 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics.
 MIFF Staff 04 May 2023
Critics Campus: Q&A with Debbie Zhou and Jessica Kiang

Critics Campus: Q&A with Debbie Zhou and Jessica Kiang

We speak to Debbie Zhou and Jessica Kiang about their experiences as mentee and mentor, respectively, during MIFF 2018’s Critics Campus.
 MIFF Staff 20 Mar 2023
The Act of Articulation: An Interview with Tony Ayres

The Act of Articulation: An Interview with Tony Ayres

Critics Campus participant James Walsh speaks to The Home Song Stories director Tony Ayres about exposing the personal, the power of storytelling and what’s next for the screen.
 James Walsh 29 Aug 2022
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