Editor Joe Bini discusses how he helped craft a visually striking, subjective film by experimenting in the edit. This is an excerpt from the ebook You Were …
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Unreliable narrators
We delve into films that hew closely to the warped perspective of a single character (or, sometimes, multiple characters) and examine how this is achieved and what its effects are.
Interview: How YWNRH sounds like ‘a head full of broken glass’
Sound designer Paul Davies discusses crafting a subjective mix that sounds like the inside of a PTSD-stricken head. Davies discusses his ongoing collaboration …
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Lynne Ramsay: ‘Beautiful images cancel each other out’
In this interview, Lynne Ramsay talks subverting hitman archetypes with gentleness, humour, and beauty. Ramsay discusses collaborating with cinematographer Tom …
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Interview: Youth is ‘a dark fairytale’ in Kissing Candice
Music video director Aoife McArdle discusses her narrative feature debut, Kissing Candice, which marks her as a bold new visual stylist. …
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Armie Hammer is more than an object of desire in Call Me by Your Name
In Call Me by Your Name, Armie Hammer’s performance as Oliver weaponizes his star persona, allowing us to misread his character in the same way that Elio does. …
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Sisterhood is the saviour in Julia Ducournau’s humanist Raw
In this essay, Orla Smith explores how Raw is as much about the experiences of her sister, Alex (Ella Rumpf), and their relationship — which saves Justine. This …
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