Filmmaker Lois Patiño discusses the influence of James Turrell’s art, working with sound designer Xabier Erkizia and casting a baby goat in his astonishing new film, Samsara.

Memorable images, moments, qualities, techniques and scenes from the 2023 instalment of 25 FPS.

Artist and animator Edwin Rostron discusses automatic animation, exploring the process of painting, finding abstraction from template forms.

Artist Duncan Poulton talks e-hoarding, the hyper saturation of contemporary image culture, co-opting online tropes, and creating texture in digital media.

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.

Artist and filmmaker Adonia Bouchehri discusses creating worlds from objects, reincarnation through artificial intelligence, and Foucault’s heterotopias.

Experimental filmmaker Courtney Stephens discusses secondary perspectives, the nature of emancipation, and the performance elements of her film Terra Femme.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Memorable images, moments, qualities, techniques and scenes from the 2023 Berlinale.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 first of these messages, Patrick discusses some of the films in the programme ‘Some Say the Devil is Dead.’

Released in cinemas in September, David Cronenberg’s festival darling Crimes of the Future is a response to the history of performance art and the forms it might take in a new, speculative future.

In 2018, the film magazine Little White Lies asked a variety of its contributors whether movies can save the world and, if so, which one. ALT/KINO founder Ben Nicholson proposed John Smith’s avant-garde classic The Girl Chewing Gum.

Artist and filmmaker Ben Russell discusses the realtionship between his two films Against Time and What Distinguishes the Past, the role of music in his cinema, “blueness” and the influence of Lee Friedlander.

Greek director Jacqueline Lentzou speaks about visual storytelling, her relationship with her leading actress, and remaining unconventional with her feature debut, Moon, 66 Questions.

At this year’s edition of the excellent experimental documentary festival Prismatic Ground artist Christopher Harris was the recipient of the 'Ground Glass Award. In celebration, several of Harris’ works were screened online for the festival’s duration.

Since her 2009 debut Mundane History, Anocha Suwichakornpong has anchored her narratives around notions of identity and memory, on which she has reflected through tales of individuals navigating dreams, re-imagined stories, and traumatic pasts.

This year’s Essay Film Festival opened with a programme showcasing 10 newly digitised films from the Cinenova collection. One of these films, Sweet Sugar Rage, uses collective performance to discuss and combat unacceptable working conditions.

Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy, and Andrew Kim’s Instant Life is a remade, reconstituted riddle in triplicate. In an attempt to reckon with its mysteries we asked a triumvirate of critics to share their thoughts.

Memorable images, moments, qualities, techniques and scenes from the Forum strand at the 2022 Berlinale.

Memorable images, moments, qualities, techniques and scenes from the Forum Expanded strand at the 2022 Berlinale.