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The 2025 edition of the experimental film festival Fracto, which took place in May at the Kunsthaus ACUD in Berlin, featured a two-day focus on the films of visual artist Dóra Maurer (b. 1937, Budapest). The mini-retrospective comprised films Maurer made between 1973 and 1990 at the legendary Béla Balázs Studio. The program was curated by Federico Rossin, who had already pres...
If the city is the world which man created,it is the world in which he is henceforth condemned to live.
– David Harvey cites Robert Park1
Since 2022, Ukrainian filmmakers have responded to the Russian full-scale invasion by risking their lives to document the reality of the war firsthand, and by telling its stories through fiction. The latter tend to focus on familiar themes related to warfare, such as the experiences of soldiers, the displacement of civilians, the fate of children, and the change in gender dyn...
Is the current boom in horror movies a mirror of our times? Recent commentary appears to suggest so. A Guardian href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/24/the-guardian-view-on-a-bumper-crop-of-horror-scary-times-call-for-even...
Set in early 1980s Austria, Alexandra Makarová’s Perla follows the titular character, a Czechoslovak émigré, as she tries to build a new life for herself and her daughter after fleeing political repression. Suspended between systems, nations, and identities, Perla (played by Slovak actress Rebeka Poláková) lives with her daughter Julia (Carmen Diego) and new partner ...
