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Parallel Memory, Class Commentary, and Queer Desire in Duino (2024). By Lexi Collinsworth
Watching Duino (2024) felt like stepping into a mirror and seeing parts of myself I hadn’t recognized before. The quiet tenderness of its storytelling, the rawness of its emotional hidden layer, hit close to home in a way I didn’t … Continue reading
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One with the Whale. Reviewed by Dason Fuller
“We live in a modern world, in a remote area.” This quote from the film drives the overall message of One with the Whale. This documentary, directed by Peter Chelkowski and Jim Wickens, follows the life of a family in … Continue reading
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Playland (2023, dir. Georden West). Reviewed by K. A. Vale
Georden West’s Playland is a visually stunning blend of performance art and documentary that asks the audience to be witnesses of Boston’s oldest queer bar as it transcends time to tell the stories of its patrons, performers, and personnel through … Continue reading
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How to Have an American Baby. Reviewed by Zachary Eanes
An observational and sometimes borderline poetic documentary, How to Have an American Baby, directed by Leslie Tai, follows the lives of Chinese women who have already given or plan to give birth in the United States in order for their … Continue reading
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King Coal (2023). Reviewed by Kathryn Fulp
Much like the formation of coal deep within the earth, Appalachian native Elaine McMillion Sheldon forms an eloquently layered piece of creative nonfiction, weighed down under mountains of history and threaded by a river of shining narration in her documentary, … Continue reading
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SCALA!!! Revelry and Revolt: Cinematic Anarchy in the Heart of Rebellion. Reviewed by Lexi Collinsworth
In the era of Britain’s Thatcher administration, a repertory cinema emerged as a cultural phenomenon that would inspire a generation. SCALA!!!, directed by Ali Catterall and Jane Giles, unfolds the riotous inside story of the infamous Scala Cinema. Between 1978 … Continue reading
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Monkey Puzzle Shorts: Experiments. Reviewed by Luka Weinberg
Welcome to the Enclave Introduced as a virtual community for like-minded women, The Enclave exists as a haven enabling an escape from the mundane of reality. At once a safe neighborhood, now under siege from Reddit trolls, digital hackers, and … Continue reading
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Monkey Puzzle Shorts Block. Reviewed by Red Broadwell
The Monkey Puzzle shorts block of Cucalorus features experimental shorts existing in the limbo between dream and nightmare. These shorts use surreal imagery to convey indescribable parts of the human experience or fears we don’t dare speak of. This review … Continue reading
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A Conversation with Robert Redhead. By Lillianne Hogsten
Three (short) years ago, I arrived in Wilmington, North Carolina, for the first time. I knew next to nothing about the town, what it could offer me or what my future held within it. As a young filmmaker, I was … Continue reading
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