The Masked MonkeysThe cutting edge of cinema culture at this moment is not what’s premiering in competition at Cannes or picking up the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Rather, it is at the quietly flourishing but deeply influential genre of film festival focusing on new and adventurous work in documentary filmmaking. More than any red carpet extravaganza, this type of festival is consistently challenging audiences to expand their understanding of how the art of cinema explores reality and how reality complicates moviemaking. Whether big, like Copenhagen’s Cph:dox, or smaller, like Missouri’s True/False Film Fest, these events go further than the traditional and staid vision of festivals devoted to documentary film, whose emphasis is above all on the camera as a bland tool to invisibly tell a nonfiction story, and instead present more closely curated programs that showcase the infinite nuance and complexity—not to mention shades...
- 11/29/2016
- MUBI
In partnership with New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center, Mubi will be hosting four films recently shown at Art of the Real, the Film Society's annual showcase for boundary-pushing nonfiction films. Il Solengo will be showing April 27 - May 26, 2016 on Mubi in the United States.A group of elders gathers in a hunting lodge and recalls the life of Mario “de’ Marcella,” a man who lived in a cave over 60 years of his life. Why he chose to live a solitary existence is unknown. Perhaps it had something to do with a mysterious and tragic event of his childhood...Directors Matteo Zoppis (right) and Alessio Rigo De Righi (center).Notebook: This film almost seems to be a sequel to your short, Belva Nera, since it's a new mysterious tale which takes place in an area you know very well…Alessio Rigo De Righi & Matteo Zoppis: We are fascinated...
- 4/27/2016
- MUBI
Mubi is continuing its partnership with New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center to present online selections from their April festival, Art of the Real, an annual showcase of boundary-pushing nonfiction films. Past collaborations with the Film Society provided online audiences access to highlights from the New York Film Festival's Projections program and their Friends with Benefits series.We covered Art of the Real as it happened in New York, and now Mubi will exclusively be showing the following features direct from the festival:Poet on a Business Trip (Ju Anqui, China), 24 April in the USOriginally shot back in September of 2002, this lo-fi, black-and-white adventure across China’s remote Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is both bawdy and astute. First seen mid-coitus in Beijing, the titular scribe Shu decides to go on a “business trip”—which consists of drinking, eating, and chewing the fat with truck drivers and fellow bus passengers in seedy barbecue joints and hotels.
- 4/27/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Engram of ReturningThe selection at this year’s installation of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Art of the Real film festival, an annual showcase dedicated to conveying the spectrum of nonfiction filmmaking, are an intriguing bunch culled from a variety of seemingly opposing cultures, yet still exhibiting a fascination with interrogating the past. That this fixation is explored through a miscellany of aesthetic methods is only testament to the veracity of the festival’s undertaking.As this year’s sidebar retrospective of avant-garde giant Bruce Baillie’s work evinces, the nuances and vagaries of the term ‘“nonfiction” allow for fruitful pairings of works that continue the lineage of the abstract, non-narrative work that comes to define our idea of the American avant-garde with those of more familiar documentary tendencies. Daïchi Saïto’s superlative Engram of Returning, playing as part of the second shorts program,is certainly the film...
- 4/7/2016
- by Eric Barroso
- MUBI
Both looking like very suave Italian directors, Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis certainly made an impression on the International Film Festival Rotterdam circuit. Their latest documentary is about an enigmatic Italian misanthrope who retreats from his village society and lives somewhat remarkably in the wild woods of Tuscia, Italy. Only you almost never see him, and meet him largely through the hearsay of others, making this feature fall into a pretty fascinating space for non-fiction filmmaking. Anyone who has seen their previous film Belva Nera will recognise a familiarly dark, mysterious world in Il Solengo, and it's definitely full of similarly kooky wonders. But those who haven't seen their previous work will still find in this film's compelling idea an interesting new glimpse at...
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- 2/17/2016
- Screen Anarchy
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