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Welcome to the closet! BFI Flare’s Five Films for Freedom 2020 are online now
While we’re all in isolation, BFI Flare and the British Council’s latest annual compilation of new queer shorts makes a great window on the world, and its newly pressing questions of privacy and outreach, says Ben Walters.
Wednesday 25 March 2020 -
ABC in Sound: László Moholy-Nagy’s rediscovered experiment in visual sound
Thought to be lost for years, this playful film combines abstract geometry and textures to create a visible soundtrack, and even features the fingerprints of the director himself, writes Ian Christie.
Wednesday 19 June 2019 -
Commissioned by the Rotterdam Film Festival, the two video essayists’ Re-enacting the Future raised questions about recreations and disseminations of revolt and the line between documentary and propaganda, memory and annihilation, writes Tara Judah.
Thursday 14 March 2019 -
Detainment review: a plea for wiser judgement
Vincent Lambe’s tactful, powerful recreation of the Jamie Bulger case – the before and after of the infamous child murder – turns the spotlight on our response to incomprehensible horror, says Alex Dudok de Wit.
Friday 25 January 2019 -
Small Town: childhood memories of lost innocence in this Golden Bear-winning short
On the evidence of this hazy, surreal gem, Diogo Costa Amarante is a director to watch, writes Laurence Boyce.
Thursday 16 March 2017 -
Fleeting pleasures: BAFTA’s Shorts Tour 2017
Offering a snapshot of British short-form filmmaking, BAFTA’s shorts showcase is touring the country’s cinemas with the highlights of new British documentary, drama and animation in a matter of minutes. Here are this year’s eight award nominees.
Wednesday 8 February 2017 -
L’avventura giapponese: Antonioni in Japan
Celluloid Liberation Front on a rare chance to see il maestro’s early 1980s Japanese Betacam tapes.
Wednesday 31 August 2016 -
Chris Robinson on Shen Jie’s boggling, mesmerising horse play, another gem from China’s budding animation scene.
Sunday 24 July 2016 -
Toon of the Month: Pineapple Calamari
Chris Robinson on Kasia Nalewajka’s surrealist portrait of grief at the races, as extraordinary as Vertigo crossed with Creature Comforts.
Friday 25 March 2016 -
Archives online: Gi’s a job – the 1984 Durham Miners’ Gala
Farewell, King Coal: this year’s Big Meeting will mark the first in an era without working deep-pit mines in Britain. Thirza Wakefield looks back at 1984 and the beginning of the end.
Friday 4 March 2016
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