Two people caught in a moment of quiet reflection, their bodies united in some eternal dance of pure eroticism which contrasts sharply with their psychological state, which is somewhere in between numb ennui and unhinged psychological despair – and their only method of working through these issues come in the form of movement, whether those…

Culturally, we are usually predisposed to categorize absolutely everything, with our tendency to compartmentalize absolutely every work we come across being one of the many universal quirks that we find throughout the history of art, and something that has driven us to the point where everything has to be considered aligned with a specific set…

Let’s just start with a wise word of warning – Yule Log is a film that depends entirely on the element of surprise. It isn’t often that I advocate for someone to enter into a film without any prior knowledge, since the experience is so much more compelling if you don’t know what to expect…

Despite running at a diminutive duration of 26 minutes, Un chant d’amour remains one of the most important films in the history of experimental cinema. The only official directorial effort by esteemed French author and playwright Jean Genet, who undertook an impressive but dangerous challenge of telling a story centred around queer issues, it is…

Something that you learn when expanding your horizons is that you can often open doors to some of the most extraordinary art. The global interest in films from beyond Europe and North America has gradually improved, and we’ve seen some truly exceptional works from around the world being widely celebrated, many of them formative texts…

There are few voices in contemporary cinema more exciting than that of Peter Strickland. For just over a decade, he has continuously pushed the boundaries of what is possible to do and say in terms of films, his work being a feverish blend of homages to a bygone era in filmmaking and biting satire that…

Few names evoke the sensation of absolute prestige and artistic brilliance more than Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who may have only made a few films over his career, but each one is a perfectly-crafted masterpiece of existential complexity. His most recent offering is Memoria, in which he collaborates with Tilda Swinton in telling the story of a…

Time is a concept that we all take for granted. We tend to perceive life as a linear series of events, days that turn into weeks, which subsequently turn into the variable months and years that we exist in the period that we all know quite simply as life. This is a peculiar way to…

Despite having been composed thousands of years ago, Greek mythology still carries an oddly significant amount of cultural cache, often being perceived as the basis for many later artistic works that took inspiration from these tales of mystery and intrigue, which continue to mystify and entertain us, many years later. The primary reason is likely…

Welcome to Everything Everywhere All at Once, the film that boldly states that life is essentially best described as being “where everything’s made up and the nothing really matters” – and knowing the perverse sense of humour the directors have demonstrated in the past, I’d be surprised if the bastardization of this iconic catchphrase Daniel…