Artist Film

Opinion - 20 Sep 2019

A Brutal New Film Reconstructs Stalin’s Infamous Show Trials

Drawing on raw archival footage from 1930, Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa highlights the drama of dubious truths

By Sierra Pettengill

Opinion - 19 Sep 2019

Underexposed: The Role of Women Filmmakers in the Early Days of Cinema

The BFI’s new boxset highlights the important part women played in establishing cinema as an artistic medium

By Juliet Jacques

Interviews - 25 Jul 2019

Work in Progress: Frederick Paxton’s Filmic Portrait of a Building in Eastern Ukraine

Jennifer Higgie spoke to the filmmaker about his latest project, which ‘places human existence at the heart of a conflict that has rendered its people invisible’

By Jennifer Higgie

Opinion - 16 Apr 2019

Teo Hernández’s Diaristic Cinema

A long-overdue survey exhibition at the Villa Vassilieff in Paris highlights the depth and range of the films made by the late artist from 1977 until 1991

By Rachel Valinsky

Opinion - 09 Apr 2019

Artists’ Films at BFI’s Flare Festival

‘In Place of the Real’ focussed on histories of LGBTQI+ people

By Juliet Jacques

Opinion - 25 Mar 2019

Vivian Ostrovsky’s Playful Politics

A new anthology of 16 films made between 1982 and 2014, highlights the director’s innovative, international approach to her art

By Juliet Jacques

Interviews - 18 Mar 2019

Do It Yourself! A New Film on the Life and Work of Donna Haraway

In ‘Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival’, the feminist theorist discusses ‘living well and giving heart’

By Hestia Peppe

Reviews - 15 Mar 2019

Rashid Johnson’s Directorial Debut, ‘Native Son’

Why has the artist chosen to adapt a novel that has been criticized for its portrayal of Black characters?

By Anna Martine Whitehead

Opinion - 20 Feb 2019

Ghassan Halwani’s First Feature is a Filmic Memorial to Lebanon’s Disappeared

Halwani has created his own emotionally powerful, visually arresting memorial: ‘a small step on a daunting climb’

By Chris Sharratt

Interviews - 14 Nov 2018

‘Set the Mind to Mute’: Aliki Panagiotopoulou in Conversation with Quinn Latimer

The Athens-based artist discusses how desire figures in her new film, the relationship between writing and images and the influence her home city has on her practice

By Quinn Latimer

Opinion - 01 Oct 2018

The 2018 Turner Prize Asks: Do We Share a World?

This year’s exhibition recruits the powers of documentary to reflect on what draws us together and holds us apart

By Erika Balsom

Features - 20 Sep 2018

One Take: Luke Willis Thompson ‘_Human’

A new film uses a sculpture by the late Donald Rodney to reflect on the many tales of race and class that are etched on the skin

By Tavia Nyong’o