Josef Gatti, a Melbourne-based filmmaker and pioneering cinematographer, spent nearly a decade building the “trippy science concept album” of Phenomena, his feature documentary debut. Phenomena is...
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Saelyx FinnaAt Sundance 2026, Indonesian director Wregas Bhanuteja premiered Levitating (Para Perasuk), a highly imaginative film about a fictional trance party community in Indonesia. The Indonesian title, Para Perasuk, translates to “the...
“The truth is, women make the harsher films,” Kira Muratova once told a young Isa Willinger. Such an observation might not be surprising coming from Muratova, the legendary Ukrainian filmmaker known for her convention-bucking embrace of the...
In 2014, Yanomami shaman and activist Davi Kopenawa co-authored The Falling Sky, a landmark work chronicling the Yanomami’s Indigenous worldview and warning of the dire consequences of environmental destruction. Ten years after the...
Palestinian filmmaker Yousef Srouji has called himself an “accidental filmmaker.” Divine timing could be another way of interpreting the creation of his first film, Three Promises, which premiered in 2023, amidst Israel’s war on...
“There was, there was not” is a common opening line for Armenian fairy tales. Filmmaker and multimedia artist Emily Mkrtichian adopts this line as the title for her feature debut — a documentary that embeds deeply within the lives...
The 2024 edition of True/False, the annual festival of film and music in Columbia, Missouri, features 42 musical acts who perform between February 28th and March 3rd. According to True/False, “Music touches every part of the festival:...
Alaya Dannu is not your average dreamer. With a nearly life-long practice rooted deeply in ancestral dreaming, the transdisciplinary Mesa, Arizona-based artist regularly acquires new knowledge, skills, and insights in her dreams that shape her...