Tag Archives: 16mm

Experimental Cinema, Snow & Saïto

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Kamran Ahmed

La Région Centrale (Michael Snow, 1971, 16mm) A meditation of time itself. Challenges the viewer’s capacity for prayer as it entangles the spiritual and physical in worlds both of the reveler and the revealed through a form of fixed yet … Continue reading →

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Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971)

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Kamran Ahmed

This is a challenging film, and not merely due to its epic 13 hour run-time. After the events of May ’68, Rivette reached out to cinema’s potential for transformation. He decided that cinema’s necessarily political nature (‘every film is political’) … Continue reading →