Pink Films Vol. 5 & 6: Woman Hell Song (Japan, 1970) and Underwater Love (Japan, 2011)
Within the dearth of the sensorial realm, the cinematic image emerges as a force that elevates the level of immediate experience to the level of...
His (Japan, 2020) [JFTFP 2021]
More than being a film about being gay fatherhood, His (2020) poses a question about the idea of queer domicile, or specifically, the instability of...
Tampopo (Japan, 1985) [NYAFF Winter Showcase 2020]
Juzo Itami’s Tampopois a Japanese comedy film about the art of making a perfect bowl of ramen, but it also contains subversive elements that make...
Sans Soleil (France, 1983) [Tokyo Stories]
More than thirty six years after its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 1983, Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil still poses an...
Bullet Ballet (Japan, 1998) [JAPAN CUTS 2019]
Shinya Tsukamoto’s Bullet Ballet is a film about an obsession with a gun. It’s an obsession that starts when Goda (Tsukamoto) learns that his girlfriend...
Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul (China, 2004)
Hu Jie’s documentary Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul is about the persecution of anti-socialist Chinese activist Lin Zhao under Mao Tse Tung’s period of reform...
The Foolish Bird (China, 2017)
Set against the backdrop of contemporary China’s technocratic and dissimulated culture industry, Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka’s contemplatively paced film The Foolish Bird articulates a...
Signal Rock (Philippines, 2018) [SDAFF 2018]
Chito Rono’s Signal Rock is a film that revolves around the day-to-day struggles of a poor family in Biri, Samar and their efforts to help...
Woman in the Dunes (Japan, 1964)
For a moment, the film is about bodies. Across its spatio-temporal design, Hiroshi Teshigahara explores the otherworldly life of bodies in close-up, in their textural...
Respeto (Philippines, 2017) [NYAFF 2018]
Treb Montreras II’s debut feature-length film Respeto looks into the Fliptop Rap Battle, which comprises a large part of contemporary Filipino hiphop subculture in the...