Phantasmagoria Digital Phantoms: Martine Syms’s Ugly Plymouths 1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023 The shattered limitations imposed by phantasmagoria are part of why it has the potential to be ever-evolving in visual culture. The genesis of phantasmagoria can be traced back to the…
Phantasmagoria Ghost in the Shell and the Chilling, Not So Chill, State of Contemporary Souls 1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023 Many, maybe too many, artistic reflections have been made about life in the new millennium, especially in cinema. Some tend to romanticize our future; others are more worried about a…
Phantasmagoria The Past That Haunts Us: Memory as History in The Act of Killing 1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023 We often think of memory and history hand in hand. We recall the what's happened previously through memories, but some things stand out more than others: we remember our first…
Phantasmagoria This Fear’s Got a Hold on Me: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023 Director and writer Ana Lily Amirpour knew exactly what she was doing when she titled her 2014 “Iranian vampire Western horror film”, allegedly the first of its kind, A Girl…
Phantasmagoria The Card Game Possessed by Spirits 1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023 Video games are always fun for me, especially in the way they immerse you and make you participate as a player. While with movies you only have to watch what…
Outtakes So Much Tenderness: Warm Humanism in a time of Cold Journeys 16 Aug 202329 Sep 2025 Colombian cinema has grown immensely over the last few years, finding and defining its style while diversifying the themes of its stories. Moving away from violence and politically-themed films, we…
Festival Spotlights… Festival Spotlight: Hot Docs 2023 9 Jun 202328 Sep 2023 For the first time, Short Ends had the opportunity to attend the 2023 Hot Docs 30th Film Festival anniversary and we’ve collected a compelling short list of a variety of…
Festival Spotlights… Violence, Resistance, and Values: Ukrainian Spotlight for Hot Docs 2023 9 Jun 202328 Sep 2023 This year, in the unfortunate circumstances of ongoing war the world has gained access to the Ukrainian documentary cinema, and one will probably see fiction cinema about the Russian invasion…
Music Musicality of Silence in Sound of Metal 1 Jun 202331 May 2023 It is hard to explain how silence feels. Not as in the absence of sound, but in your heart and mind. Silence can be heavy, can be sharp, can be…
Music In the Ether: All About Lily Chou Chou and the Effervescence of Music 1 Jun 202331 May 2023 We hear an average of 1.3 million songs in our lifetime. How many of those songs stay with you throughout our lives? How many of them can you sing by…
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