Nico in Dark Times: Nina Danino’s Solitude
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A Haunted Medium: On Charlie Shackleton’s The Afterlight
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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.
Read MoreCommunication Problems: revisiting Nam June Paik
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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.
Read MoreMichael Snow: New Wave Heroes
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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.
Read More2022 in Review
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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.
Read MoreImagination & Liberty: The films of Pierre Clémenti
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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.
Read MoreCronenberg’s Crimes of the Future is a piece of (art) history
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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.
Read MoreCan The Girl Chewing Gum Save the World?
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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.
Read MoreSilent Tongues: The Films of Christopher Harris
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