Roads to Nowhere: Kane Parsons’s Backrooms
By Thomas M. Puhr. Watching a character look around in bewildered awe as they first encounter the backrooms gets old pretty quick. How many times must we see someone gasp as a part of their […]
Visar etikett: surrealism
Sjón – Surrealistisk berättarkonst som berör
PROSA. ”Sjónorama” är en bok med 20 berättelser av den isländske författaren Sjón. Thomas Almqvist tilltalas och berörs av den surrealistiska berättarkonsten. Det komprimerade formatets mästare Sjó[…]
Välgjort, absurt o kvickt tillskott till scenkonsten
Två skådespelare, en musiker, scenograf, kostymdesigner och en regissör, alla kvinnor, har skapat en skruvad föreställning i högt tempo i en surrealistisk kontext på Hagateatern. Hanna Haags pjäsdebut ”Den […]
The Grotesque and the Sublime: Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight
By William Blick. Hysterical, soul-stirring, and bewildering…undefinable in the best sense of the word.” Occasionally, I will see a film wherein I do not know where it will lead me. It is at […]
Pandemic Dreams: A Trip Elsewhere
By William Blick. A zany yet suspenseful cinematic experience.” I saw the phrase, “after the plague, came the renaissance,” scribbled on a subway station wall and thought it was perhaps somewhat applicable to the aftermath […]
Cinema without Reason: Quentin Dupieux’s Daaaaaalí!
By Jonathan Monovich. Dupieux’s Daaaaaalí! understands that to make a faithful film about Dalí it should lack convention.” Though Salvador Dalí’s paintings are far more famous than his contributions to cinema, Dalí’s […]
Young at Heart: Julio Torres’ Problemista
By Jonathan Monovich. Writer-director-star Julio Torres cleverly compares the one-month countdown for finding work visa sponsorship to both an hour glass running out of sand and a never-ending maze…. Problemista‘s […]
Recent Contemporary Protest Cinema and Political-Cultural Exoticism
By Hamed Soleimanzadeh. By bringing attention to the challenges of the surrounding world, exotic protest cinema encourages audiences to take responsibility against the injustices and inefficiencies.” The concept of political-cultural exoticism in protest cinema […]
Scorsese’s Night Moves: After Hours (1985)
By Jeremy Carr. Scorsese’s follow-up to The King of Comedy (1982) can be as stressed as any thriller or even a horror film, or as ostensibly innocuous and banal as a plaster of […]
A Short, Sweet Dream: Theodore Schaefer’s Giving Birth to a Butterfly (2021)
By Thomas M. Puhr. Pleasantly rough around the edges and anchored by two strong female performances, the co-writer and director’s feature debut offers a bit more than homage but never quite escapes its […]