the Oberhausen Film Festival, rather than admit that director Lars Henrik Gass has been targeting pro-Palestinian voices and banning them from the festival, is instead painting itself (himself?) as a victim of cancel culture and rebranding as a bastion of free speech. /

CREAM is pleased to announce that Prof. May Adadol Ingawanij and associate Dr. Julian Ross are programmers for the 69th Flaherty Film Seminar, To Commune. To celebrate, we are accepting applications for 2 x CREAM Flaherty International Fellowships.  cream.ac.uk/features/cream…

I've programmed a few events for Open City Documentary Festival on Palestinian films. The New Militants is a collection of contemporary shorts that inherited the political traditions of the Palestine Film Unit. April 26, 20:30. Get tickets here: bit.ly/3TTPDji

Happy to announce our first ReCNTR artist/researcher-in-residence is Inas Halabi! More on Inas' project and our plans here: recntr.nl/2024/05/recntr…

My interview with Ryusuke Hamaguchi is now online: extraextramagazine.com/a_z/ryusuke-ha…

Symposium organised in conjunction with our exhibition Community of Images taking place today, University of Pennsylvania, 9:30-15:00.

ขอบคุณ หอภาพยนตร์ฯ สำหรับการต้อนรับอย่างอบอุ่น! ยานอวกาศ และการสัมผัสส่วนหนึ่งของ Flaherty Seminar Big thanks and appreciation to Thai Film Archive staff, May Adadol Ingawanij Julian Ross the Flaherty Seminar team and participants. A glimpse of communing w love.

My first time on the Film Comment Magazine podcast! We discuss the 69th Flaherty Film Seminar that May Adadol Ingawanij and I co-programmed.

Our Collaborative Cataloging Japan exhibition Community of Images is currently on view at Art Alliance, Philadelphia, until 9 August. The show is on Japanese artists working in the US in the 60-70s and their collaborations with American artists. collabjapan.org/community-of-i…

The 69th Flaherty Film Seminar: “To Commune”. May Adadol Ingawanij and I took the seminar out of the US and to Thai Film Archive, Salaya, where hundreds of us got together for a six-day gathering. Thanks to all who joined us! 📷 by Vinai Dithajohn.

I’m contributing a visual essay to this release! Excited to be part of a Radiance Films release who have been doing great work. Also happy to be joining 戦後映像芸術アーカイブ Postwar Japan Moving Image Archive and Jasper Sharp on this disc. Pre-order here radiancefilms.co.uk/products/dogra…

In order to raise climate change awareness, #30thSFF is introducing a new award this year in partnership with UNDP in Bosnia and Herzegovina The Special Environmental Awareness Award will be decided by a three-member jury. More information at sff.ba/en

I contributed a book chapter on 1960s Japanese discotheques and expanded cinema to The Palgrave Handbook of Experimental Cinema, edited by Kim Knowles and Jonathan Walley. Out now! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Heading to Rome later this week for Villa Médicis Film Festival! I was on their selection committee this year, and I'll be doing Q&As with Truong Minh Quy, Adam Piron and Gelare Koshgozaran. Here's the competition line-up; see link for other screenings villamedici.it/en/festival-di…