Gillie Collins talked to director Rosemary Myers about adapting her Windmill theatre play Girl Asleep for the film. Collins also explores the many exaggerated, theatrical elements that define the film.
Writer-Director Jenni Olson on her film essay, The Royal Road
Jenni Olson on her 16mm film essay, The Royal Road, a story of unrequited love told through the linear progression of California’s El Camino road.
Julie Delpy talks colour and comedy in Lolo
Writer-Director-Actress Julie Delpy discusses her consummately entertaining new movie, Lolo, which is chock full of the same joie de vivre Delpy channels in real life.
Fatima is a tender look at making a home in a new land
Fatima meditates on language barriers and what it takes to become French.
The politics of sisterhood in Mustang
Mustang, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s directorial debut, charts five sisters’ resistance, as they both grow into and reject a narrow notion of womanhood. But Ergüven privileges perspectives that a Western audience can understand and approve of, making the story too familiar and incomplete.
Landscape and limbo in Fish Tank
In Fish Tank, physical boundaries stand for social boundaries — the constraints imposed by gender and class and the walls we build for self-protection