Glasgow 2017: The Radiant and Haunting Past: Rachel Lambert on ‘In the Radiant City’
Rachel Lambert’s directorial feature debut In the Radiant City (2016) is a poetic blend of atmosphere and emotion. Its movement between the past […]
Articles by Paul Risker
Filmmaker as Optimist: Aram Rappaport on the Loneliness and Self-Doubt of The Crash
The contemporary world continues to awake to the threat of cyber-attacks, the recent incident during the U.S election evidencing the significant threat to […]
The Lyricism of Chinese Whispers: Unifying Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes in Brexit Britain
“I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies…” – Neil Gaiman, […]
The Vengeful Call of the Female Loner – Alice Lowe the Making of Prevenge
While pregnancy is typically seen as a cause for celebration, here at FrightFest, where we lean towards ‘The Dark Heart of Cinema’, we […]
Visceral Filmmaking: Ralitza Petrova on Godless and Approaching Film as an Artist
Cinema is still only a youthful art form, and one some filmmakers will describe as an amalgamation of the other artistic mediums. To […]
Filmmaker as Author and Audience: Babak Anvari Discusses Under the Shadow
If impatience should be associated as one of youth’s negative traits, then Babak Anvari’s debut feature Under the Shadow (2016) is a strange beast. […]
Adapting The White King: Alex Helfrecht and Jörg Tittel Discuss the Literary and the Filmic
The White King (2016) is Alex Helfrecht and Jörg Tittel’s feature directorial debut, a bold adaptation of György Dragomán’s novel. A coming of […]
A Study of Mount Fuji in Stillness: Fiona Tan’s Ascent and the Ideas Beneath the Stillness
Visual artist Fiona Tan’s Ascent (2016) is a collection of still photographs edited together that mirrors the construction of film as a single […]
The BFI’s Revolution in Realism: Geoff Andrew on Romanian Cinema and Ideas of Realism
In the midst of the infancy of 2017, it is only fitting that we take a moment to look back on a filmic […]
Woody’s Café Society: Shades of Midnight in Paris and the Unforgotten Past
One of the great narrative arcs is that of the rise and fall, and while there have been morbid moments in which critics […]