Interview: Lois Patiño
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Highlights from 25FPS
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Memorable images, moments, qualities, techniques and scenes from the 2023 instalment of 25 FPS.
Read MoreInterview: Edwin Rostron
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Artist and animator Edwin Rostron discusses automatic animation, exploring the process of painting, finding abstraction from template forms.
Read MoreInterview: Duncan Poulton
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Artist Duncan Poulton talks e-hoarding, the hyper saturation of contemporary image culture, co-opting online tropes, and creating texture in digital media.
Read MoreInterview: Daniel & Clara
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Artist filmmakers Daniel & Clara discuss working in different media, the uncanny portrayal of lived experience, and the impact of neolithic site of Avebury on their practice.
Read MoreInterview: Adonia Bouchehri
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Artist and filmmaker Adonia Bouchehri discusses creating worlds from objects, reincarnation through artificial intelligence, and Foucault’s heterotopias.
Read MoreInterview: Courtney Stephens
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Experimental filmmaker Courtney Stephens discusses secondary perspectives, the nature of emancipation, and the performance elements of her film Terra Femme.
Read MoreNico in Dark Times: Nina Danino’s Solitude
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Icon of the 60s and 70s, German singer, actress and model Nico was known as the priestess of darkness. In her film Solitude, Nina Danino communes with a divine, doleful image of Nico and continues her recent fascination with transcendent songs of suffering.
Read MoreA Haunted Medium: On Charlie Shackleton’s The Afterlight
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A collage film that is both a memorial to those that have been lost and designed to one day be lost itself, Theo Rollason explores the nature of Charlie Shackleton’s feature film The Afterlight, which exists as a single 35mm print.
Read MoreCommunication Problems: revisiting Nam June Paik
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With Amanda Kim’s documentary Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV on general release, it seems the perfect time to reflect on the work of the “grandfather of video art” and how huis work remains so contemporary.
Read MoreInterview: Katharine Fry
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Artist Katharine Fry discusses casting her doll performers, constructions of the self, and finishing the script a few days before her film, When I’m with you, premiered.
Read MoreA Cinema of the Body: The Films of Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki
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In a collaboration that lasted for more than four decades, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki explored notions of femininity and the body. Their hypnotic and hieroglyphic film Double Labyrinthe recently received an DVD release from RE:VOIR.
Read MoreExperimental Highlights from the 2023 Berlinale
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Memorable images, moments, qualities, techniques and scenes from the 2023 Berlinale.
Read MoreMichael Snow: New Wave Heroes
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In 2019, Michael Snow world premiered a new audio performance called Waivelength at the Tate Modern in London. Later that year, for the film magazine Sight and Sound, ALT/KINO founder Ben Nicholson reflected on Snow’s various re-workings of his landmark film, Wavelength.
Read More2022 in Review
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In the spirit of pushing boundaries and resisting categorisation, our 2022 review doesn’t restrict recommendations to experimental/avant garde/artist’s moving image films but could include any other - even tangentially related - product or production. They could select books, records, performances, DVD or Blu-ray releases, articles, interviews, film screenings, podcast episodes.
Read MoreImagination & Liberty: The films of Pierre Clémenti
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Pierre Clémenti may be more familiar to audiences as a magnetic on-screen presence, but from May 1968 onwards he was also a maker of underground films filled with psychedelic energy and radical leftism. On the occasion of a retrospective at MoMA, Ruairí McCann takes a journey into his unique visions.
Read MoreExperimenta correspondences #4: Interior/Exterior
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ALT/KINO is covering the Experimenta strand of this year’s London Film Festival via a series of correspondences between Patrick Gamble and Sophia Satchell-Baeza. In the fourth and final of these letters, Sophia reflects on internal and external geographies across several films from the Experimenta programme and beyond.
Read MoreExperimenta correspondences #3: Opaque and emerging narratives
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ALT/KINO is covering the Experimenta strand of this year’s London Film Festival via a series of correspondences between Patrick Gamble and Sophia Satchell-Baeza. In the third of these missives, Patrick reflects on the obfuscation and emergence of narratives within and around films screened.
Read MoreExperimenta correspondences #2: America, divided
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ALT/KINO is covering the Experimenta strand of this year’s London Film Festival via a series of correspondences between Patrick Gamble and Sophia Satchell-Baeza. In the second of these messages, Sophia discusses her experience(s) watching James Benning’s The United States of America.
Read MoreExperimenta correspondences #1: Dissolving Boundaries
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