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We continue our coverage from Rotterdam with this conversation with Itonje Søimer Guttormsen, director of Gritt, a film  about a performance artist in pursuit of a dream. The film is an intense psychological portrait, but also an exploration of the reality of the artist, situated in the thin lines between status and livelihood, altruism and manipulation, brilliance and self-delusion.

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More from the International Film Festival of Rotterdam! Director Dea Kulumbegashvili discusses her new multi-award-winning film, Beginning, available on the streaming service MUBI, who have picked up the film for distribution. She talks technique, from creating the intuitive timing and specific sonic landscapes of the film, as well as maintaining the camera's emotional connection to her characters' inner lives. 

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A Valentine for you! This extended conversation with noted comic book letterer Aditya Bidikar was conducted as an interview for the website Comics Bookcase.  The conversation covers much about his philosophy on the work of lettering and ways of collaborating, but this extended conversation covers everything from how humans create meaning, to connection in the pandemic, to a love of literature and languages.

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Four intrepid film friends, Ariel, Katelyn, Chris, and Lisa talk about their takeaways from the 2021 edition of the Sundance Film Festival. They discuss their favorite discoveries, moments of brilliance, moments of weird, and evaluate the first ever virtual version of the Park City spectacle.

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More from the International Film Festival of Rotterdam! Ane Hjørt Guttu stops by to discuss her remarkable prize-winning documentary film, Manifesto, that reveals how the strings of bureaucracy have damaged one art school in Oslo. The film depicts the double life professors must live under the watchful eye of monitors and security guards, and the problems of a demoralized body of students and staff.   

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Ariel sits down with Serbian director, Marta Popivoda, to talk about her documentary Landscapes of Resistance, which just had its world premiere at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam. The film has two storytellers - Sonja Vujanovic, and the spaces she has inhabited. Sonja fought against fascism with the partisan movement in Yugoslavia, and battled her way to survival through many landscapes, including Auschwitz. Popivoda talks about how she made this beautiful historical record of a film, and how the fight must continue.

Works referenced:
Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich

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Sammy Gensaw joins the show to discuss the recent documentaries that he has been a part of, Gather (2020) and Guardians of the River (2021). He talks about his identity, from his Yurok ancestry to his feeling of kinship with indigenous communities around the world, but most importantly, his identity as an American.

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Monica and Andrea join in a conversation about the emotional roller coaster Americans have lived through this January, and what the competing narratives communicate to us, through the media and pop culture, about the Capitol attack and the Inauguration. What is an America, anyway?

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London-based film critic Zoë Rose Smith sits down to discuss controversial filmmaker Lars von Trier's highly controversial film, AntiChrist. The conversation evaluates the aesthetics of the film and performances, the role of misogyny in the film and its reception, the graphic body horror, but most importantly, the lengths we go to in grief to feel something.

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The multi-talented creators Weshoyot Alvitre (author and illustrator) and Chag Lowry (author and documentarian) discuss their newly published comic book, My Sisters, about the significance of indigenous basket-weaving traditions in California. They  share their reflections on the comic book industry and how they share their own native identities in their work.

Link to purchase My Sisters and access free curriculum materials:  https://bluelakerancheria-nsn.gov/pathmakers/chaglowry/

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