Retrospectives

Retrospectives
Reflections on stand-out films of the past.

Five Early Shorts by Małgorzata Szumowska

Moritz Pfeifer retraces the promising beginnings of Małgorzata Szumowska's career.

How do you make a film with no money, no screenplay, and no directorial skills?

Maxence Voiseux discusses the importance of editing for archival documentaries like Harun Faroki and Andrej Ujica's Videograms of a Revolution.

Konstanty Kuzma compares Escape from 'Liberty' Cinema (Poland, 1990) to Woody Allen's Purple Rose from Cairo.

Vedrana Madžar and Zorka Obrenić retrace the ways in which Godina surveys the connections between art and labor.

Sezgin Boynik examines the Marxist-Leninist Roots of Zenitism, a Yugoslav avantgarde movement of the 1920s.

Gal Kirn situates three shorts by Godina from the early 1970s within the framework of Jacques Rancière’s theory of the “Aesthetics of Politics”.

Moritz Pfeifer compares Béla Tarr's Macbeth to his Family Nest.

Konstanty Kuzma retraces Nimród Antal’s career from ambitious beginnings to a conventional Hollywood career.

Julia Zelman looks at this film's main character, comparing him to other heroes of the time.