Belgian art historian and filmmaker Paul Haesaerts (1901–1974) made a significant contribution to the promotion of modern Flemish art. In late 1940s, he started experimenting with medium film practice new form lens-based criticism. The understudied documentary Quatre peintres belges au travail (1952) presents artists Edgar Tytgat, Albert Dasnoy, Jean Brusselmans Delvaux at work in their studio....

Abstract Short films have proven an important medium for social commentary in contemporary Indonesia. As example of the genre, this special issue BKI presents Candra Aditya’s (2016) short film, Dewi pulang (Dewi goes home), which follows a young Javanese woman as she travels from Jakarta to her natal home Central Java attend father’s funeral. A critically annotated transcript and translation fi...

The adoption by local governments of neoliberal theories and strategic planning, which promotes the use competitiveness scales business marketing criteria in urban management, generated a series changes cities with aim reversing closure factories shops attracting new businesses, residents tourists. In this context, cinema became media platform to project image that wanted promote city as touris...

It is frequently asserted in both film scholarship and criticism that Noah Baumbach a literary filmmaker. While Baumbach’s oeuvre certainly showcases his interest literature through range of stylistic techniques, this article presents the case projects filmmaking as an authorial trademark line with Timothy Corrigan’s conceptualisation contemporary auteurism. By critically positioning himself au...

Abstract Bradley Garrett, an urban ethnographer, took part in exploration of British space that involved trespass onto land owned by the public transport authority. Garrett argued it was ‘deeply problematic’ to block research on people simply because they lived close ‘legal boundaries’. He also participant observation with such groups might entail breaking law. In 2012, and eight participants w...

In her article "Shen (1904-1940) film 十字街頭 (1937) (Crossroads Hollywood and Soviet cinema in 1930s explores the transcultural and transmedial possibilities and potentials in the in the 1930s and the unruly energy and unique aesthetic characteristics embedded in the process of creative mimesis and transplantation. While in the paradoxical attitude toward US-American and Soviet films, Chinese fil...

This Article contains the use of drone cameras for smartphones has become increasingly popular in recent years, providing users with ability to capture high-quality aerial footage and photosfrom a unique perspective. paper examines various factors consider when choosing camera smartphone, such as battery life, quality, stability, range. Additionally, local laws regulations regarding usage are d...

The Italian film I dannati della terra ( Damned of the Earth ) (Orsini and Filippi is a prominent example connection between European cinema intervention Third World struggles 1960s. Set as ‘film within film’, movie tells story leftist filmmaker, Fausto Morelli, who faces challenge finishing about liberation sub-Saharan Africa by building on documentary footage that was bequeathed to him his st...

This essay considers experimental filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin’s work as a lifelong process of technological activism and “knowing-making.” Using recent frameworks from Critical Disability Studies, Chamarette demonstrates how decades parallel in some cases pre-date the evolution Studies it is currently situated. As an early adopter digital ‘cusp-of digital’ technologies (Hi-8 cameras, Mini-DV tape...

White Lies (Rotberg, 2013) is an Aotearoa New Zealand film, which was adapted to screen from a novella written by Witi Ihimaera (Ihimaera, 2013). My review discusses the film storyline, whilst highlighting social and cultural conflict between Indigenous Māori population European settlers. Directed Mexican filmmaker Dana Rotberg, addresses colonial oppression in during early twentieth century fo...