Sight & Sound articles

Festivals

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  Artists in the houses: Berwick 2015

  Harriet Warman reports on the multiple permutations of fact, fiction, moving images and installation spaces presented at the borderlands festival of ‘film and media art’ under its new director Peter Taylor.

  Harriet Warman
  Thursday 5 November 2015

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  ‘Strong’ women – latinate quarter at London 2015

  With women on film centre-stage at this year’s London Film Festival, Mar Diestro-Dópido rounds up ten films with a female flavour from Latin America, Spain, France and Italy.

  Mar Diestro-Dópido
  Thursday 5 November 2015

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  Bodies and film: Experimenta 2015 at the London Film Festival

  Sophie Mayer on this year’s London Film Festival experimental allsorts, including revivals of the 1970s films of Argentina’s Marie Louise Alemann and New Zealand’s Joanna Margaret Paul, and new highlights from Tacita Dean, Sarah Turner, Vivienne Dick, Mike Kuchar, Jennifer Reeder and more.

  Sophie Mayer
  Wednesday 4 November 2015

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  Questions and answers: Laurie Anderson and Brian Eno play twist or stick

  Frances Morgan reports on a stage conversation between the performance artist and the musician to accompany the London Film Festival premiere of Heart of a Dog, Anderson’s new essay film rich in grief and wonder.

  Frances Morgan
  Monday 2 November 2015

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  Stories from the other side

  Three portraits of life on the modern edge at the London Film Festival – Something Better to Come, Songs My Brother Taught Me and Sailing a Sinking Sea – brought us hardy images of liminal struggles, reports Harriet Warman.

  Harriet Warman
  Friday 30 October 2015

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  Different strengths: women to the fore (and aft) at London 2015

  Women were in the spotlight at this year’s London Film Festival, from Suffragette’s opening-gala platform to the Geena Davis Institute’s campaign on gender representation. But did the emphasis on symbols overshadow subjects and sensibilities, asks Simran Hans?

  Simran Hans
  Friday 30 October 2015

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  Welcome to the brain wash: London 2015 ‘Cult’ round-up

  Anton Bitel considers 13 outré efforts at the 59th London Film Festival.

  Anton Bitel
  Thursday 22 October 2015

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  Boys and men: the best of British animation at Encounters 2015

  Jez Stewart on the atavistic native visions at Bristol this year, from Richard Williams’ hand-drawn rendition of ancient-Greek warfare to an EDL dad, a neanderthal id, a sad young wool-mation cannibal and an anachronistic woolly mammoth.

  Jez Stewart
  Wednesday 21 October 2015

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  Toons by women at Encounters 2015

  Female animators weren’t on the wane at this year’s Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival. Alex Dudok de Wit picks a handful of the standouts.

  Alex Dudok de Wit
  Wednesday 21 October 2015

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  Remember life: the best international live-action shorts at Encounters 2015

  Punk springs eternal as America’s Jennifer Reeder won her second consecutive Grand Prix for Blood Below the Skin, but otherwise the spirit of mittel-European social realism stood tall at Bristol’s short film festival, reports Tim Hayes.

  Tim Hayes
  Wednesday 21 October 2015

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