Mubi is showing Eloy Domínguez Serén's No Cow on the Ice (2015) from May 23 - June 23, 2017 in most countries around the world in collaboration with L.A. Ola's showcase of new independent cinema from Spain.When I arrived to Sweden in the summer of 2012, I knew relatively little about this country. My perception of this place was primarily based on a historical, though not very precise, imaginary which was defined by some of the main milestones of Swedish politics and culture during the 20th century: ranging from the folkhemmet promoted by the Social Democratic governments of Tage Erlander and Olof Palme, through the unique political, social and emotional universe of Astrid Lindgren, to the dramatic complexity and existential anguish of Ingmar Bergman’s characters.During my first months in Stockholm (which were exciting and inspiring in many ways, but also odd and puzzling in others) I found in literature a...
- 6/3/2017
- MUBI
"'I am not a filmmaker, I am a filmer,' said legendary Lithuanian-American filmmaker Jonas Mekas during his address to the audience at L’atra Sala, one of the smaller, more alternative venues of the 69th Festival del Film Locarno," writes Ela Bittencourt in a dispatch to frieze. "Mekas was introducing Walden/tag> (1969), an intimate portrait in 16mm of his beloved New York, and his friends’ comings and goings. Mekas, who is also the subject of I Had Nowhere To Go/tag> (2016), a meandering retelling of wartime experience and emigration by artist Douglas Gordon, which premiered this year in Locarno’s Signs of Life section, challenged the audience to envision cinema as willfully amorphous: fresh, intimate, visually incestuous." We're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/12/2016
- Keyframe
"'I am not a filmmaker, I am a filmer,' said legendary Lithuanian-American filmmaker Jonas Mekas during his address to the audience at L’atra Sala, one of the smaller, more alternative venues of the 69th Festival del Film Locarno," writes Ela Bittencourt in a dispatch to frieze. "Mekas was introducing Walden/tag> (1969), an intimate portrait in 16mm of his beloved New York, and his friends’ comings and goings. Mekas, who is also the subject of I Had Nowhere To Go/tag> (2016), a meandering retelling of wartime experience and emigration by artist Douglas Gordon, which premiered this year in Locarno’s Signs of Life section, challenged the audience to envision cinema as willfully amorphous: fresh, intimate, visually incestuous." We're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/12/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
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