Perspectives
The latest in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European cinema.

Signe Baumane’s Rocks in My Pockets (2014)

Vol. 43 (July 2014) by Colette de Castro
The courageous debut by Signe Baumane uses the example of her family to question her own sanity.

Andrzej Jakimowski’s Imagine (2013)

Vol. 43 (July 2014) by Julia Zelman
Imagine is about a blind man who arrives at a clinic in a Lisbon monastery to teach some slightly hostile children...

Amei Wallach’s Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here (2013)

Vol. 43 (July 2014) by Patricia Bass
The 2013 documentary on Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s work shows a struggle with questions of national, generational, and even ideological belonging.

Jan Kidawa-Błoński’s In Hiding (W ukryciu, 2013) & Jerzy Skolimowski’s Four Nights with Anna (Cztery noce z Anna, 2008)

Vol. 43 (July 2014) by Konstanty Kuzma
Konstanty Kurma's comparison of two recent Polish films makes him wonder why freedom and democracy made Polish cinema more dogmatic than it previously was.

Rok Biček’s Class Enemy (Razredni sovražnik, 2013)

Vol. 43 (July 2014) by Colette de Castro
Rok Biček’s first feature is a fascinating psychodrama which concentrates on the metaphysics of blame.

Ania Szczepanska’s We Film the People (Nous filmons le peuple, 2012)

Vol. 42 (June 2014) by Colette de Castro
In her documentary, Ania Szczepanska meets the directors of Polish cinema’s golden age.

Nevio Marasovic’s Vis-à-vis (2013)

Vol. 42 (June 2014) by Konstanty Kuzma
A director and his actor travel to an island to work on the script for their next project.

Maya Vitkova’s Viktoria (2013)

Vol. 42 (June 2014) by Konstanty Kuzma
Maya Vitkova’s film revolves around a mother, and her unloved daughter.

Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s Aftermath (Pokłosie, 2012)

Vol. 42 (June 2014) by Moritz Pfeifer
Moritz Pfeifer analyzes "memory tales" - stories which revolve around, but do not take place during the Second World War.

Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík, Peter Kerekes’ Velvet Terrorists (Zamatoví teroristi, 2013)

Vol. 41 (May 2014) by Colette de Castro
This collaborative, experimental film follows the fate of three dissidents who were jailed for committing terrorist acts under Czechoslovak Socialism.
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