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With Disclosure Day recently in cinemas, Erin McDonagh looks back at 80's classic E.T.
Hope can represent a lot of things. For Elliot (Henry Thomas), his version of hope is wishing for his family to come together like they used to. These days, his parents barely look at each other. When an extraterrestrial crashes into his back garden...
For Rouzbeh Rashidi, filmmaking begins with not knowing. Across more than two decades, his practice has been shaped by radical autonomy, experimentation, and a refusal to treat the image as something that can be fully understood or controlled.
From the Tehran-founded Experimental Film Society to its later transplantation to Dublin, Rashidi has ...
Norma Farley Bodie takes a look at Oscar Boyson’s dark comedy-drama, Our Hero, Balthazar.
“We’re fighting for our lives here.” This is the catchphrase, the battle cry even, of the titular character, Balthazar Malone (Jaeden Martell). Our so-called teenage “hero” practises the line over and over, reducing himself to forced tears as he r...
Neil Cadieux passes the captcha for this fascinating retrospective video essay by Rouzbeh Rashidi.
Rouzbeh Rashidi’s From the Human to the Inhuman is a feature-length video essay, assembled from eleven features made between 2009 and 2019. Self-described as a ‘passage back’ through his work, the film offers retrospective analysis and explanation...
Cricket fields, Pickpockets, and the Watch of Countess Markievicz test limits for Khushi Jain at GAZE 2026
"Sleek, sexy, and thrilling" is how GAZE’s programmer James Hudson described Testing Limits, the final shorts block of the festival’s 2026 edition. Testing Limits was in many ways a spiritual successor to last year's