Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, and Alice Rohrwacher tour Italy to ask youths how they feel about the life ahead in Futura, a refreshingly open debate about where we want to go.
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TIFF’s annual Wavelengths programme is one of few opportunities for Torontonians (and Canadians) to see work on the bleeding edge of film aesthetics in such a concentrated burst. It’s also, I would
Keep ReadingFirst things first: Wavelengths, the experimental and avant-garde program curated by Andréa Picard, is pretty clearly the best thing TIFF has going for it. Here, as nowhere else, the celebrity-centric mediocrity of
Keep ReadingNot all of TIFF’s docs end up in TIFF Docs. In recent years, many of the festival’s most interesting documentaries have been screened in the avant-garde program, Wavelengths. This year is no different: with
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Keep ReadingMrs. Fang (France/China/Germany, 86 min.) Dir. Wang Bing Programme: Wavelengths (North American Premiere) I don’t know if it’s Chinese master documentarian Wang Bing’s rare skills—pairing the professional’s easy way with subjects with
Keep ReadingGood Luck (France/Germany, 143 min.) Dir. Ben Russell Programme: Wavelengths (North American Premiere) The epigraph to Ben Russell’s Good Luck — an account of a mescaline-induced hallucination of a rock repeatedly
Keep ReadingWang Bing's Ta'ang is a vivid document of lived experience, but as a feature documentary, it could use a bit more context or inquisitiveness.
Keep ReadingI Had Nowhere To Go is an adaptation of Jonas Mekas’ memoir by Turner-prize winning artist Douglas Gordon
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