Live discussion with Sebastian Mez on his film «Die grosse Leere - The Great Void» on Clubhouse during the festival Visions du Réel Nyon 2021

Editing: Ruth Baettig

Live discussion on Clubhouse during the festival Visions du Réel Nyon 2021 with Nikola Ilić and Corina Schwingruber Ilić.

Editing: Ruth Baettig

Live discussion with Toby Bull on «Some Kind of Intimacy», and with Krystsina Savutsina on «Khan's Flesh» on Clubhouse during the Festival Visions du Réel 2021

Jeannette Wolf hat sich nach der Vorpremiere im Kino Rex am 31 Januar 2022 mit Regisseurin Yngvild Sve Flikke und Hauptdarstellerin Kristine Kujath Thorp über den Film «Ninjababy» unterhalten.

The three curators Chloé 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 :€

Among the topics of the discussion: home as the uncanny place of defamiliarization, discomfort in embodiment and memory, trusting the experimental and amateur approach as revelatory, video essay as post-cinematic experience, video-essay as opening the potentialities of cinema, video essay as another form of temporality and the role of community in defining video essay.

A critical text by Giuseppe Di Salvatore on Christian Petzold's «Undine», read by Nils Jensen and edited by Annatina Stalder.

[…] The philological crux of dealing with mobile origins therefore reveals nothing but the fundamental delay that constitutes the “original” substance, matter and starting point of Petzold’s films.

A critical text by Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie on Agustina Comedi's film «El silencio es un cuerpo que cae», read by Nils Jensen and edited by Annatina Stalder.

[…] Killing off a part of your parent is felt in every lingering scene of Comedi as a child ensconced in a bubble of love, cutely demanding the direction of his lens.

A critical text by Davide Abbatescianni on Jan Komasa's film «Corpus Christi», read by Nils Jansen and edited by Annatina Stalder.

[…] One thing is certain; in his performance, Bielenia is helped by his extraordinary physique du rôle, which powerfully embodies the dichotomies of his character, whilst his consummate acting celebrates its complexity.