Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins pins down Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, a documentary/mockumentary/fictional concert film which stands out in the sea of musical biopics as a ‘semiotic experimental’ …
Pavements (2024): On the World’s Most Important Band
Witches (2024)
Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins reviews Witches– Elizabeth Sankey’s essayistic film examination of mothers, witches, and the ways we mishandle both. Women often come in threes. The high …
The Flesh of Language (2024)
Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins analyses the effect of Amanda Rice’s documentary on analogue media and animal extinction, The Flesh of Language. The body of analogue media and …
Nickel Boys (2024)
Our festival correspondent Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins considers RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys (2024) and the fleshing-out effect of film. Since we first put celluloid to screen, assembly …
Nowhere (1997)
Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins returns to the end of the twentieth century (and possibly the world) the final instalment of Gregg Araki’s sci-fi Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy. At …
Peeping Tom (1960)
Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins looks back on Powell’s controversial horror with its unflinching 4K restoration. The 4K restoration of Michael Powell’s 1960 psychological horror Peeping Tom indulgesthe …