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Melbourne Women in Film Festival: Navigating precarity in building a sustainable professional festival

May 16, 2025/in Spring 2025, Festival Reviews, Reviews

As the Melbourne Women in Film Festival (mwff.org.au) reaches its ninth year,[1] we have achieved the position of Australia’s longest running women’s film festival currently in operation.[2] From a two-day festival of retrospective screenings and experimental shorts held in 2017, the festival has grown to an annual five-day event that showcases films by Australian, Aotearoa […]

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Neoliberalism, crises, and solidarity: Hot Docs in focus

May 13, 2025/in Spring 2025, Festival Reviews, Reviews

[W]hat would be able… to contain and counter the pressure neoliberal social and political transformations have put upon communal and artistic life – capture it and turn it into a form of aesthetic activism? If such an activity – such a form of activism in the face of capital-induced ecological catastrophe and social disintegration – […]

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Animal Nature Future Film Festival and its transnational organisational structure

December 9, 2024/in Autumn 2024_#Enough, Call for Papers, Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2024_#Open

Introduction Since the 2000s the number of environmental film festivals around the globe has increased significantly; we have witnessed a diversification within eco-themed film festivals, including events focusing on wildlife and environment protection, sustainable food cultivation, animal ethics, and human/animal relations. Among these is Animal Nature Future Film Festival (ANFFF), which was established in 2023 […]

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Films flying high: International Film Festival of the Heights in Jujuy, Argentina

December 9, 2024/in Autumn 2024_#Enough, Call for Papers, Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2024_#Open

Argentina is usually known for two leading film festivals: BAFICI (Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival), known for its attraction to cinephiles, and Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the only A-list festival in Latin America. However, the country has a rich circuit of film events that are little known outside its boundaries, mainly due […]

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On reaching and creating your audience: VR artist Nemo Vos on the role of film festivals

June 26, 2024/in Reviews, Festival Reviews

Dutch artist Nemo Vos discusses his approach to VR and his vision of the role played by film festivals in making VR available. Reflecting on the premiere of his work 8 Billion Selves at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2024, Vos addresses both the challenges and advantages of exhibiting VR at festivals. Looking to the future, Vos outlines his vision for a series of co-created VR works, each featuring a different artist and aiming for distribution in theatres to achieve economic sustainability for the medium. The artist emphasises the responsibility VR artists themselves have in creating awareness and cultivating audiences, and details how he uses co-creation and collaboration with other art forms to elevate VR from a niche technology to a mainstream artistic form.

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Why (film) festivals? Virtual reality experiences at a crossroads

June 26, 2024/in Reviews, Festival Reviews, Spring 2024_#Open

It was in October 2015 at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC) that I first encountered virtual reality (VR) as we know it today. Since then, I have attended every edition of the festival’s Explore section, anxious to discover what immersive and interactive experiences it had in store. Although I could never afford to attend any […]

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The two sides of VR utopias

June 26, 2024/in Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2024_#Open

At the center of Lazzaretto Vecchio, the immersive island of the Venice Film Festival, there is an open social space where directors, producers, press, volunteers, and festival visitors can gather together to grab quick drinks, meet old and new friends, and sit down for interviews and/or business talks. The community space offers a relief from […]

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The future of the screen: Exploring Venice Immersive with Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac

June 26, 2024/in Reviews, Festival Reviews, Spring 2024_#Open

Within the Venice Film Festival, a dedicated section for immersive works was introduced in 2016, quickly gaining competitive status alongside traditional cinematic works. Venice Immersive serves as both an exhibition and promotion venue for XR and a forum for discussing pivotal market issues. This interview with the Venice Immersive creators and curators, Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac, delves into the early stages of the section, its objectives, the challenges faced, and the major issues within the immersive works market.

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Accessing film culture and community at the 2023 Melbourne International Film Festival

December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_#Cycles, Festival Reviews, Reviews

An established and beloved aspect of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is standing in ‘queues winding their way around city blocks in the depths of winter’, meeting like-minded cinephiles.[1] This is not something I can participate in. My disability makes it difficult to stand for long periods of time. For many years, MIFF did […]

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A monumental chronicle of ‘The Mother of All Film Festivals’

December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_#Cycles, Festival Reviews, Reviews

The Big Three film festivals (Cannes, Venice, and Berlin) may be of venerable age, but we do not have much by way of detailed and authoritative scholarship on their history. In 2000 there was Wolfgang Jacobsen’s 550-page volume 50 Years Berlinale: International Filmfestspiele Berlin, published by Nicolai in collaboration with the festival and Filmmuseum Berlin-Deutsche […]

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Accessing film culture and community at the 2023 Melbourne International Film Festival

December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_#Cycles, Festival Reviews, Reviews

An established and beloved aspect of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is standing in ‘queues winding their way around city blocks in the depths of winter’, meeting like-minded cinephiles.[1] This is not something I can participate in. My disability makes it difficult to stand for long periods of time. For many years, MIFF did […]

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On the habitus of festival-going: Digital anxiety and urban aspects of post-COVID Berlinale

December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_#Cycles, Festival Reviews, Reviews

Accreditations typically determine how people access a film festival: they determine whether someone acts, for instance, as a journalist, a producer, a creator, a researcher, or as a regular member of the audience. The fact that a festival does not consider any accreditation system also conditions how attendees behave during the event. The spaces one […]

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Inside the archive of feelings: Experiencing Il Cinema Ritrovato

December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_#Cycles, Festival Reviews, Reviews

Proudly announcing on its website ‘thirty-seven years of emotions’, the 37th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato promised a gargantuan feast to those prepared to disengage themselves from the demands of everyday life during nine packed days. This year, the festival’s program boasted ‘470 films including 35mm, 16mm, restored masterpieces and hidden gems from all over […]

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Havana Film Festival New York 2022: A cultural bridge emerging from COVID-19

June 7, 2023/in Spring 2023_#Ports, Festival Reviews, Reviews

The Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) is the city’s longest continuously running Latin American/US-Latino festival. In this review I examine the nuances of the festival’s 22nd offering from 3-10 November 2022, as well as its unique premise, making it a key space for over two decades of cultural encounter and negotiation. Additionally, I highlight […]

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17th DocsMX: Returning to the streets and meeting with audiences

June 7, 2023/in Spring 2023_#Ports, Festival Reviews, Reviews

In person events, human contact, direct encounters with the protagonists are the keys to a film festival. We are still in a pandemic, let’s not forget, but we are already returning to theaters, to that dark but bright place that makes us feel so comfortable.[1] The introductory text for the 17th International Documentary Film Festival […]

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