Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell Director Pham Thien An on Stillness, Long Takes, and Vietnamese History

Vietnamese director Pham Thien An’s debut feature Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell juxtaposes moments of great importance with the moment-by-moment sta...

Ira Sachs on Passages: “I Wanted to Make a Horny Film”

Tomas (Franz Rogowski) seems to have it all: a career as a director, marriage to Martin (Ben Whishaw), and the freedom to pursue his desires as he wishes. In P...

Ashley McKenzie on Queens of the Qing Dynasty, Asexuality, and Staying Focused as a Filmmaker

Canadian director Ashley McKenzie’s two features pivot around people caught up in traps. She’s a regional filmmaker, making work based in the communities of No...

Brandon Cronenberg on Infinity Pool, Dream Logic, and NC-17 vs. R-Rated Cuts

Brandon Cronenberg shows no fear returning to images and themes popularized by his father David. Even the literary influences apparent in his work––Phillip K. ...

Skinamarink Director Kyle Edward Ball on Finding Terror in the Experimental and YouTube’s Avant-Garde Revolution

For five years, Canadian filmmaker Kyle Edward Ball’s YouTube channel “Bite-Sized Nightmares” has been showcasing shorts full of fuzzy video, distorted sound, ...

Andrew Bujalski on the Resourcefulness of There There, Chantal Akerman, and the Evolution of Cinema

With There There, Andrew Bujalski finds new freedom under the constraints of working during the peak of the COVID pandemic. Shot on phones, it consists of a se...

Ricky D’Ambrose on Building The Cathedral and the Intricacies of Indie Filmmaking

With his second feature The Cathedral, Ricky D’Ambrose takes a major step forward. He has not abandoned the clipped, elliptical style of his shorts and debut f...

Dominik Graf on Telling a Timeless Tale with Fabian: Going to the Dogs

Dominik Graf has been busy turning out termite art for decades. Finding a home on German TV shows like Tatort and Police Call 310, which air feature-length epi...