Interview with Filipa Ramos, co-curator of the Film Programme at Art Basel 2023, by Giuseppe Di Salvatore | Editing: Morgane Frund

After having discussed his This Action Lies five years ago, Filmexplorer meets James N. Kienitz Wilkins in Nyon for the premiere of his Still Film at Visions du Réel 2023 and continue the exchange on his filmmaking. Interview: Giuseppe Di Salvatore | Editing: Ruth Baettig

The team of FILMEXPLORER’s Live Radio at the Bildrausch Filmfest 2023 meets Lois Patiño on the Stadtkino Piazza in Basel to discuss his last wonderful filmic work «Samsara». Interview by Giuseppe Di Salvatore and Emilien Gür | Editing: Olivier Legras

Filmexplorer took advantage of the film curator Leonardo Bigazzi’s presence in Nyon in the Jury of the section “Burning Lights” at Visions du Réel 2023 in order to discuss with him several topics that equally mark Filmexplorer’s profile, from the art-cinema interface to the notion of expanded cinema, and the tasks of festivals today.

Philippe Ciompi is a renowned sound designer and editor who insists on the importance of going beyond a compartmental approach to film production. Good sound editing starts with grasping the global significance of the film project.

Filmexplorer's Editing Collection | Season 1 (3/5)

Beatrice Gibson recognises the influence of the modernist approach to composition in her artistic work. Showing the architecture of a composition becomes part of the film language, for which the concentration on editing will clearly be of enormous importance. This implies an active spectatorship, just like in the case of poetry.

Lého Galibert-Laîné presents: «A Room with a Coconut View» by Tulapop Saenjaoren

Kevin B. Lee presents: «Irani Bag» by Maryam Tafakory

Johannes Binotto presents: «3xShapes of Home» by Elisabeth Brun

Lého Galibert-Laîné presents: «Life Without Dreams» by Jessica Bardsley

Kevin B. Lee presents: «Michael Ironside and I» by Marian Mayland

Johannes Binotto presents: «Le mystère des roches de Kador» by Léonce Perret

Lého Galibert-Laîné presents: «Distant Feeling(s) #9», by Annie Abrahams and Daniel Pinheiro

Kevin B. Lee presents: «One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean», by Wang Yuyan

Johannes Binotto presents: «How to Perform Teaching During a Pandemic Spring Session, 2020: GENDER STUDIES, Rain & Cats Cut», by Dayna McLeod

The three curators Lého Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto discuss the three video essays that they have proposed for the first exhibition of Filmexplorer’s Video Essay Gallery, “Home Positions”.

«La position couchée», by Seumboy Vrainom :€

«Home When You Return», by Carl Elsaesser

«Hinterlasse Spuren (Leaving Traces)», by Sara Čolić