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Revue
Spectacle of Intimacy: Bodily Landscapes and Resistance in Mast-del and Lotus-Eyed Girl
Critics Campus participant Erika Lay analyses Mast-del and Lotus-Eyed Girl – two short films that each use the body to interrogate how erotic desire and national identity alike can be constructed and subverted via the act of looking.
Between Metamorphoses: Phạm Thiên Ân on Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Critics Campus participant Đăng Tùng Bạch speaks to Phạm Thiên Ân about the making of his Caméra d’Or–winning film and the roles played by location, sound and time in his work.
Heaven Is a Derelict Train Car: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster
Critics Campus participant Lauren Collee discusses the moral ambiguities and absolutes that emerge in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tale of institutional malaise and tentative queer romance.
Carnal Cravings: The Limits of Desire in Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day
Critics Campus participant Indigo Bailey examines the unsettling and controversial combination of horror and sensuality in Claire Denis’s brutal, beguiling 2001 feature.
Critics Campus: Where Are They Now? (Part 2)
We speak to Critics Campus alumni Aimee Knight (2016 cohort), Conor Bateman (2015 cohort) and Claire Cao (2019 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics.
Critics Campus: Where Are They Now? (Part 1)
We speak to Critics Campus alumni Michael Sun (2019 cohort), Isabella Trimboli (2019 cohort) and David Heslin (2015 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics.
Critics Campus: Q&A with Debbie Zhou and Jessica Kiang
We speak to Debbie Zhou and Jessica Kiang about their experiences as mentee and mentor, respectively, during MIFF 2018’s Critics Campus.
The Act of Articulation: An Interview with Tony Ayres
Critics Campus participant James Walsh speaks to The Home Song Stories director Tony Ayres about exposing the personal, the power of storytelling and what’s next for the screen.
Glitter Gore and Magical Madness: An Interview with Hannah Barlow
Critics Campus participant Lamya Nawar speaks to Hannah Barlow about self-awareness, self-forgiveness, and the power and perils of social media, as tackled in the pop-horror film Sissy.
Remembering the Radical: An Interview with John Hughes
Critics Campus participant Digby Houghton speaks to Senses of Cinema co-director John Hughes about subversion, collective filmmaking and historiography.
Down the Rabbit Hole: An Interview with Alena Lodkina
Critics Campus participant Andrew Fraser speaks to Petrol writer/director Alena Lodkina about creative synergies, cultural cringe and challenging audiences to watch films as co-creators.