Prime-time activists in 'Crooked Earth'

The meta-narrative of Aotearoa New Zealand film

by Davinia Thornley

[12.4.13] - 'Crooked Earth' (Sam Pillsbury 2001) presents a compelling case study of a new millennium shift for the New Zealand Film Commission: away from quotas for indigenous, nationally-orientated themes and more overtly towards packaging Aotearoa New Zealand’s (ANZ) specific interests and issues into an internationally-marketable format. A film like 'Crooked Earth' represents this divide in microcosm.

[en] Prime-time activists in 'Crooked Earth'

Reviews » La bella addormentata, Bellocchio, 2012

Il limbo tra la vita e la morte

by Federica Martiny

[28.9.12] - Tante storie si intrecciano e si contaminano sulla scena, attraverso l'incontro-scontro tra le diverse idee etiche e i diversi paradigmi morali sulla questione del finevita. Sullo sfondo le dinamiche della vita democratica dell'Italia e le risposte inadeguate della politica.

[it] Il limbo tra la vita e la morte

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Absent Interiors

Murnau’s The Haunted Castle and Taking-Leave

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[en] Absent Interiors

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[31.12.11] - The history of cinema has depicted cyborgs in many ways and in many genres, especially science fiction and horror, and, due to their constitutive ambiguity, frequently mixing them with aliens, mutants, androids, clones, homunculi, robots and monsters. Contemporary reflection on these beings and their limits, and how we could all be cyborgs today, as biologist Donna Haraway suggests in her “Cyborg Manifesto”, has found its way to the screen and has opened up a debate that goes well beyond science fiction and mainstream cinema.

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