The Slow Craft of Oxhide II
A review by Alex Fields. In Oxhide I & Oxhide II, filmmaker Liu Jiayin takes us into a cramped Beijing apartment, casting her parents and herself as fictionalized versions of themselves. In the following post, film critic Alex Fields pays particular attention to the second installment, wherein the director fixes her camera around the kitchen […]
A. S. Hamrah Selects
Ovid asked me to recommend a selection of films streaming on their channel. Initially attracted by the documentaries they offer about musicians I love, including Ornette Coleman, Pulp, Bill Callahan, and the Magnetic Fields, instead I picked ten features that are not music docs. Nevertheless, I do have to recommend Joe Angio’s Revenge of the […]
A Spotlight on Hong Kong
By Karin Chien Amidst global crises competing for our attention, I value the current attention that is being paid to Hong Kong and its recent protests, coming in part from the splashy new drama series on Amazon Prime, The Expats. If you’re looking for more on Hong Kong, we are proud to offer six extraordinary, […]
On Spectacle Theater’s Collaborations with Icarus Films
An essay by Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer
Pema Tseden: 1969–2023
Pema Tseden on the set of THARLO (image courtesy of the dGenerate Collection)
On “militant cinema”
Inside the Red Brick Wall, dir. Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers (2021)