Examining the filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s engagements with religious questions reference to his films Devi (The Goddess), Mahapurush Holy Man), Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), Sadgati (Deliverance) and Ganashatru (A Public Enemy), this essay assesses influence of Brahmo inheritance, personal atheism/agnosticism cultural fascination Hinduism in representations women’s status caste discrimination. ...

In 1928, filmmaker Jean Epstein produced La Chute de la Maison Usher: a masterpiece of Gothic cinema. It is an adaptation two Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, “The Fall the House Usher” and Oval Portrait”. The study this intersection Poe has led to production triptych (a suite three films): I Work for Devil, Tonight You Belong Me, Night-Side Nature. project explores theory-in-action known as “p...

Abstract This article explores the recording by documentary film of imperceptible longue-durée tectonic processes alongside radical eventhood volcanic eruption. Through an analysis Romanian filmmaker Diana Vidrașcu’s Volcano: What Does a Lake Dream? (2019), I re-animate Gilles Deleuze’s discussion islands to explore temporal, philosophical, and mediatic implications eruption, island formation, ...

There is a field of intersection between text and image that throughout the history cinema has been configured as space subtle architectures where typographic sign (the letter) its sound emission voice) in conjunction with image, they form terrain new audiovisual grammars, for experimentation creation meaning original associations.Alexander Kluge's work undoubtedly special case forcing this rel...

This article revisits the cinema of late Filipino filmmaker Lino Brocka in order to erode distinction between realism and spectacle at play, still today, many discussions about political capacities moving image. The work is understood here as both realist escapist, agreement with other key non-Western filmmakers that anti-colonial Hollywoodian codes. author focuses analysis on expressive amalga...

Issue 21 - Jean-Luc Godard once observed of Bertrand Tavernier that they shared a common origin: as children “the Libération and the Cinémathèque” came age in turbulent 1960s (qtd. A Journey Through French Cinema (Voyage à travers le cinéma français, Tavernier, 2016)). who died March this year, is an appropriate filmmaker to commemorate Introduction issue Alphaville dedicated themes me...

Starting from the premise that Lazzaro Felice (2018) by Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher is born a vision of world has its roots in Christian tradition and, therefore, better understood religious perspective, we will study different narrative and aesthetic aspects film, focusing on creation central character, Lazarus, who, with powerful spiritual charge Christological resonances, essential ke...