Tag Archives: God

Mother! Explained

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Kamran Ahmed

I really don’t understand what the fuss is all about, why this film is so contentious, and why this film has so many theories around it. Mother! is quite simple, really, and once you realize its basic allegorical framework, it’s … Continue reading →

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Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)

Posted on December 26, 2015 by Kamran Ahmed

Such perfect mastery of time and rhythm perhaps unequaled in cinema. A chamber drama with few scenes, each austerely captured by the observing and detached gaze of a languid camera, which carefully tracks the actors deeply nuanced performances in long … Continue reading →

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Elegy of a Voyage (Sokurov, 2001)

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Kamran Ahmed

As with Russian Ark, Sokurov creates an all encompassing atmosphere through narration and open form montage, yielding a sense of presence throughout the film. Open montage, the use of nondescript (yet no less arresting nor beautiful), non representational images, which … Continue reading →

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The Turin Horse (Tarr, 2011)

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Kamran Ahmed

For six days, man and woman each eat a potato, and then dark silence overcomes them. Ritual figures deeply in Tarr’s observation of the death of God. Metonyms of the Lord, the horse will not eat, the wind will not … Continue reading →

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To The Wonder (Malick, 2013)

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Kamran Ahmed

The film begins with a series of film-photographic images, taken from a variety of sources; they are at once a reflection on the transition from film to digital as well as the transitions in people’s lives. By this end, the … Continue reading →