Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage

Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series.

Prison Notes

A documentary about the trial and imprisonment of Idriss Al-Rakab.

Notes from Eremocene

Scientist Edward O. Wilson has named the coming geological era Eremocene. In her analogue science fiction essay, Viera Čákanyová explores this era of loneliness in dialogue with a virtual alter ego from the future.

Notes on Identity

Three women live together: Maria is a scientist, Lia is a kindergarten art teacher, Raquel is an android with AI. They need to organize the traditional Saint John's festival for Lia's school.

Notes on the Circus

Jonas Mekas transforms footage of the Ringling Brothers Circus into a rapid-fire montage set to music, structured in four segments that highlight different acts. Earlier images reappear in later sections as background to

An Animator's Notes

An animator struggles to get into the "zone" as real life keeps interrupting.

Périssable paradis II (Notes pour un monde nouveau)

Périssable paradis II (Notes pour un monde nouveau) is therefore the result of an anachronism. Indeed, it benefited from funding that I never requested, whereas many of my films were produced without any financial assist

Notes on Beauty Accdg. to the Children of Sitio Green Forest, Antipolo City, Rizal

Mga Tala sa Kagandahan (Notes on Beauty) follows a filmmaking and theatre workshop for genderqueer kids (in swardspeak, baby bakla) in a Sitio in the City Antipolo, Rizal - a known pilgrimage site east of Manila. Its ass

Paris nach Noten

We Have Notes

The director of a big budget Joan of Arc movie struggles to implement increasingly frustrating studio notes.

Table Scraps: Notes on Babette's Feast

In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking detours along the way into art history, philosophy, and the author’s life in Africa.

Dark Notes

Interview with Maniac (1980) composer Jay Chattaway.

Notes to My Future Self

Set in the liminal space between waking life and dreams, this series of portraits features people expressing their resolutions for tomorrow. This video art piece was designed as a two screen projection as part of the “Wi

Noteternal

A hundred years ago, a mysterious outbreak of the Red Dawn occurred on Earth, after which people became immortal. This story begins with the banal and seemingly eternal coexistence of two married couples: young and old,

Letters, Notes

Conceptually, Stephanie Barber's short film LETTERS, NOTES is simplicity itself: found photographs hold the screen as animated texts transcribe brief notes and letters unmoored from context. And yet the elusive poignancy

Cecil Taylor: All The Notes

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern musical genius, regarded as one of the true giants of post-war music. Se

The Black Leather Notebook Special: White Darkness

Ginza is a night town filled with ambition and burning desire. How does a plain bank clerk embezzle an enormous amount of money and jump into the underground world? What is her ultimate goal? Her greatest weapon is a bla

Dispatch from Przemyśl (Notes for a Democratic Europe)

February 24, 2022: Russian troops are flooding into Ukraine. After the initial shock, how do you respond? For Marine Hugonnier, it was by using her own weapons – film and images – driven by what she describes as, “a desi

Notes from the Rogues Gallery

What if you decided to become... a super hero?

Notes for My Daughter

A teen girl struggles to deal with her mother's breast cancer.