Best of 2021
2021: the year in experimental cinema
2021’s most moving experimental works dislocated settled consciousness in ways that felt urgent and energising
By Michael Pattison
2021: the year in experimental cinema
Michael Pattison
All articles by Michael Pattison
Steady-stare surveillance, or the spatial turn in nonfiction films
By Michael Pattison
Festivals
Viennale 2013: three landscapes of labour (Demolition, Le Cousin Jules and Three Landscapes)
By Michael Pattison
Festivals
Reach for the heavens: Vertical Cinema at Rotterdam 2014
By Michael Pattison
Reviews
Dovlatov first look: a talented artist’s frustrations in Brezhnev’s Soviet Union
By Michael Pattison
Reviews
Victory Day review: Sergei Loznitsa eyes history’s motley parade
By Michael Pattison
Festivals
Fighting through the night: socialist odds and sods at AV Festival 2018
By Michael Pattison
Festivals
The best of Berlinale 2018 – the awards and our critics’ picks
By Geoff Andrew, Patrick Gamble and others
Interviews
Waves of sound: Jason Singh on his live score for Drifters
By Michael Pattison
Interviews
Chamber trouble: Tom Benn on scripting his first short, Real Gods Require Blood
By Michael Pattison
10 great
10 great films set in north-east England
By Michael Pattison
Features
Strife and the city: urban space and the essay film
By Michael Pattison
Festivals
Ghost pictures: five phantom finds at FID Marseille 2016
By Michael Pattison
Where to begin
Where to begin with Alan Clarke
By Michael Pattison
Festivals
Border tensions: Berwick 2013
By Michael Pattison
Festivals
Horrible histories: works by John McGrath
By Michael Pattison
10 great
10 great London crime films
By Michael Pattison
10 great
10 great epic documentaries
By Michael Pattison
Festivals
The trails of life: James Benning’s natural history and FAROCKI
By Michael Pattison
Festivals
Eksperimenta, Experimenta, from Zagreb to London
By Michael Pattison
Reviews
Film of the week: Starred Up
By Michael Pattison
Festivals
The art of decolonising: postcolonial cinema at AV Festival 2014
By Michael Pattison