Tara Judah

Tara Judah is director at 20th Century Flicks video shop, curator and online editor for Cinema Rediscovered and a regular contributor to Monocle24’s Arts Review and The Cinema Show, Senses of Cinema and desistfilm.

Articles by Tara Judah

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‘Liquid criticism’: in Uppsala, a fresh look at video essays

Catherine Grant’s presentation of a programme of ‘short films on film’ on the big screen gave a format more usually seen online a new, revelatory dimension, writes Tara Judah.

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Festivals
From the firing wall to the barricades: Kevin B. Lee and Chloe Galibert-Laîné interrogate re-enactments and rehearsals

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, March 14, 2019

Bytes
Immersive Encounters 2018: virtual reality in the round

At Bristol’s Encounters Film Festival, VR moved closer to the communal experience of cinema, but the technology can still keep users at a distance, reports Tara Judah.

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Festivals
Make Me Up review: Rachel Maclean takes a cyber cleaver to art history

Multimedia artist Rachel Maclean offers a digital twist on the suffragette assault on art-historical misogyny – a sherbert-fountain-screened unmasking of cultural command and control, writes Tara Judah.

Monday, October 15, 2018

Reviews and recommendations
Encounters with celluloid: Bronco’s House and the film revival

Mark Jenkin’s short movie about the Cornish housing crisis was crafted by hand at every stage, so it was a genuine pleasure to see it projected on film for the first time, and to anticipate more analogue marvels in the future, writes Tara Judah.

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Festivals
Immersive Encounters 2017: virtual reality, real bodies

VR ‘screenings’ at the Encounters Short Film Festival highlighted the ambitions of the new form, but also its limitations for the disembodied viewers swivelling through new sensory worlds, writes Tara Judah.

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Festivals
Fresh frontiers: five of the best Scottish films at the Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017

Scottish talent shone at Glasgow’s celebration of short film. While it’s little surprise that many of this year’s contenders were preoccupied with borders, identity and borders, the way those issues were approached was often very refreshing, writes Tara Judah.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Festivals