Category: Essays and Articles
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by Megan Hilborne “Exposure. That’s the only thing that works. Everything else is just talk. You have to have to courage to stay in the situation that frightens. And then you’ll learn that fear isn’t dangerous.”(von Trier, Antichrist, 2009) European extreme cinema has been described as the “cinéma du corps” (Palmer, 2011, p. 57) translating…
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by Megan Hilborne “You must close your eyes otherwise you won’t see anything.” The term ‘surrealist’ first appeared in 1917 with the burlesque play, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, and was described as a “surrealist drama” (Waldberg, 1965, p.11). Surrealism was born in Paris with young poets, André Breton being the most known, directing the review…
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by Billy Butler (Sister Jeanne – played by Vanessa Redgrave – at the feet of Oliver Reed’s Urbain Grandier in a religious vision reminiscent of Mary Magdalene at Jesus’ feet. The Devils, 1971, Dir. Ken Russell) Film is a powerful medium. It has the ability to affect our lives – the power to inspire us,…
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By Ros Tibbs One thing I have noticed after being a film lover since childhood is that American cinema, which unarguably controls Western ideals of moviemaking, is conventionally defined by everything and anything grand, expensive and intense. Features from the medium’s biggest studio powerhouses are designed to captivate audiences and their pockets by exploding, quite…
