Who will wear a crown? On Angela Schanelec’s ‘Music’
In the beginning, there is fog and there is thunder. The Gods are enraged. It is a struggle to see…
Laura Staab on Ann Oren’s ‘Piaffe’ (2022)
Everything in Piaffe is attractive, including the title: a single word with French etymology and an ineffably elegant double ‘f’,…
Laura Staab on Lucile Hadžihalilović’s ‘Earwig’
I thought I might try to pen an Oulipian essay on Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Earwig, in which a girl (despite nearing…
The End of Joachim Trier’s “Oslo Trilogy”; The End of Art and Community
Joachim Trier’s “Oslo Trilogy” – Reprise (2006), Oslo, 31 August (2011) and The Worst Person in the World (2021) – wants…
Have you Earned this Parody? On ‘Assassination Nation’
Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or if there even…
mother! in the name of The Father
“The stories of both the Anthropocene and the Capitalocene teeter constantly,” warns Donna Haraway, “on the brink of becoming much…
Certain Women and Other Animals: A Symposium on the Cinema of Kelly Reichardt at the British Film Institute, London
Certain Women and Other Animals: a symposium on the cinema of Kelly Reichardt at the British Film Institute, London Sunday 5…