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This city is our playground: A drive-by of Grand Theft Auto machinima
T he moving image – what a fraught, fraught phrase. As animation is continually slighted and short films are seen as merely proof of concept for lo…
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I’m Still Here review – memory as resistance
A s they drag their sand-covered feet from Ipanema beach to their house across the road in 1970, the Paiva children can’t imagine that, 50 years la…
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September Says review – uncanny and tender
W hen we first meet September and July, their mother Sheela (Rakhee Thakrar) is instructing them on how to pose in their Grady Twins costumes as pa…
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Making Sense of Life Without Her: On Chantal Akerman
Content Warning: Discussion of suicide. For R, wherever you are. F rom the start, it seemed like Chantal Akerman’s work was haunted by the spectr…
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The Monkey review – Theo James goes ape
“T he thing with this toy monkey is that the people around it all die in insane ways,” Osgood Perkins told Empire Magazine earlier this year, refer…
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Yi Yi, or Y2K
I n an early scene of Edward Yang’s final film Yi Yi, Wu Nien-jen’s jaded businessman NJ and Issey Ogata’s enigmatic game designer Ota sit across f…
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I Am Martin Parr review – a one-sided artist portrait
W hat a strange little promo piece this is for the venerated British documentary photographer Martin Parr. He is an artist who is known for his ele…
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