Discussing Tampopo
Nick Davie: For our Living Room Chats this month, we discuss Juzo Itami‘s 1985 classic Tampopo. The wonderfully crafted food-basedContinue Reading
Author: Eugene Kang
Diaspora and Personal Identity in Calendar
Though the role of technology in the lives of ordinary people is a theme as old as the film mediumContinue Reading
Seeking Annihilation in Under the Skin
Western society has ingrained in many of us certain gendered expectations of behavior for grief over a loved one. MenContinue Reading
The Saving Power of Storytelling in Sankofa
Sankofa, which in the Ghanaian Akan language means roughly “to retrieve,” starts with a model named Mona (Oyafunmike Ogulano) posingContinue Reading
Elusive Connections in A Short Love Affair
Bae Ildo (Park Joong-hoon) is a tailor who runs away from his dead-end job at a shirt factory to anotherContinue Reading
Discussing Rafiki
Eugene Kang: In honor of Pride month, we are looking to Kenya with Wanuri Kahiu‘s 2018 feature Rafiki. This isContinue Reading
2021 Long Distance Film Festival: Present
The 2021 Long Distance Film Festival continued with a series of shorts loosely compiled under the umbrella of the ‘Present’.Continue Reading
Psyche vs. Eros in Losing Ground
Losing Ground starts unremarkably enough with a scene of Sarah Rogers (Seret Scott), a college professor of philosophy, lecturing onContinue Reading
The Long Con of Chameleon Street
The malleability of racial identity has been at the heart of many notable works of art, perhaps none more famousContinue Reading
Eve’s Bayou and the Fragility of Memory
Eve’s Bayou falls in line with the long tradition of adult stories told from a child’s point of view. EveContinue Reading
