Harriet Warman

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Eldorado XXI – first look

Salomé Lamas’s new experimental documentary depicts the hardscrabble lives of migrant workers on a mining hill in La Rinconada, Peru, with an immense patience born of devoted interest, says Harriet Warman.

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Reviews and recommendations
Things to Come – first look

Isabelle Huppert essays a self-possessed woman at the crossroads in Mia Hansen-Løve’s own turn from stories of youth to this heartfelt portrait of middle age, reports Harriet Warman.

Monday, February 15, 2016

Reviews and recommendations
Artists in the houses: Berwick 2015

Harriet Warman reports on the multiple permutations of fact, fiction, moving images and installation spaces presented at the borderlands festival of ‘film and media art’ under its new director Peter Taylor.

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Festivals
Stories from the other side

Three portraits of life on the modern edge at the London Film Festival – Something Better to Come, Songs My Brother Taught Me and Sailing a Sinking Sea – brought us hardy images of liminal struggles, reports Harriet Warman.

Friday, October 30, 2015

Festivals
Cuckoos and straw bears: Alchemy 2015

Harriet Warmen reports on the fifth edition of the Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, a haven for moving-image artists in the Scottish Borders, and its installations and performances in spaces from a textile mill to a storage warehouse.

Monday, April 27, 2015

Festivals
Aesthetica 2014: shorts circuit York

Aesthetica’s multi-short showcase has grown from a magazine insert to a citywide festival in five short years. Is it time to take stock, asks Harriet Warman?

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Festivals
Come back, South Africa: Africa in Motion 2014

Three recent documentaries about the birth and growing pains of post-apartheid South Africa epitomised the reflective mood at this year’s Scottish showcase of African cinema. Harriet Warman reports.

Friday, December 5, 2014

Festivals
Edinburgh 2014: brain-benders of the Black Box

The Edinburgh Film Festival’s final-weekend blowout of artists’ experimenta ran the gamut from hand-processed celluloid to live multi-projector medleys. Harriet Warman strapped on her goggles.

Friday, July 25, 2014

Festivals
Encounters 2013: Swiss Encounters

Harriet Warman finds notes of electro-psychedelic-ambient Dadaism, abstract football fandom, perilous femininity and existential hopelessness in a Swiss buffet at this year’s Bristol short-film expo.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Festivals
From creation to self-destruction: Walter Murch at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2013

Harriet Warman hears documentarians, programmers and editing superstar Walter Murch on her first visit to Doc/Fest.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Festivals