Some films are hard to categorize. That’s a true statement when it comes to the short films in imagiNATIVE’s Black program, one of their experimental programs. These shorts aim to break boundaries, and while some don’t succeed in that aim, others do. By the way, this is a content warning since some of these shorts […]
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ImagiNATIVE presents Monkey Beach with Naja, an animation short where a girl runs away from home and roams Kalaalit Nuunat’s fields. Between showing that girl, it shows two light spirits either representing the girl or following her. The visuals don’t tell a clear story between the girl and the spirits, but there’s potential in the […]
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You know those times you want to like something but you just can’t… New on Blu-Ray, The Tax Collector is a gritty little crime thriller that borrows from a lot of movies that have come before it. It’s not terrible…but remember back on a Friday night when you’d hit your local Blockbuster for a movie? […]
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Just because we can walk through something…it doesn’t mean that we should… The Pale Door is rife with potential but it’s an ultimately disappointing and surprisingly cheap affair that borrows from far too many other films that have come before it to be anything genuinely memorable. The Dalton gang finds shelter in a seemingly uninhabited […]
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Sometimes you’ve just got to walk away… The Others (available on DVD & Blu-Ray tomorrow) is a sneaky little surprise of a thriller that won’t hesitate to get underneath your skin. A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score – an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the […]
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In 2105, a month after receiving his fatal diagnosis for cancer, prolific doctor and author Oliver Sacks (Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) sat down over the course of 5 days to record a lifetime of memories, ruminations, and discoveries surrounded by friends and colleagues. These sessions were video recorded, […]
Read MoreRendezvous pairs up the film Veins of the World with Blues Side on the Blue Sky, a short that posits itself as an authentic look at how a rural Indonesian family deals with one of its members who has a mental illness. And they do that with a sparse script and the occasional tableaux, letting […]
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I’d vote for any politician running for the Democratic Party even though it’s a party that engenders ambivalent feelings. And those feelings reappear in Brittany Huckabee’s documentary How to Fix A Primary..It’s about the 2018 Michigan gubernatorial primary. It specifically follows Abdul El-Sayed. As an aside, there are more countries that have figured out, relatively, […]
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ImagiNATIVE is doing something different this year by opening their festival with a shorts program. They name their shorts program with the colors of the Indigenous medicine wheel. The opening program is Yellow, which is the best program so far. I also got into the weeds of what the colors meant and let’s be real, […]
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Martine Deyres has access to the film archive of a psychiatric institution in Saint-Albansur-Limagnol. And she assembles the footage she found both as an act of film and film criticism. It’s reductive to say that she takes the images her at face value, but the footage, as a whole, is minimalistic enough for analysis. The […]
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