Ren Scateni

Ren is a writer and film curator whose practice embraces experimental and artists’ moving image works exploring the interstices of political, disruptive and liminal identities.

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Reviews

The Colors Within: a kaleidoscopic celebration of teenage creativity

A teen whose synaesthesia allows her to see the colour of people’s souls finds lasting friendships by forming a band in Yamada Naoko’s impressionistic anime feature.

By Ren Scateni

The Colors Within: a kaleidoscopic celebration of teenage creativity

Features

New ways of being: how queer Asian films are moving beyond identity politics

By Ren Scateni

New ways of being: how queer Asian films are moving beyond identity politics

Features

Maborosi at 25: The enigmatic calm of Hirokazu Koreeda’s debut

By Ren Scateni

Maborosi at 25: The enigmatic calm of Hirokazu Koreeda’s debut

Lists

50 key anime films

By Nick Bradshaw, Darren Ashmore and others

50 key anime films

Features

What to look out for in the online Glasgow Short Film Festival 2020

By Ren Scateni

What to look out for in the online Glasgow Short Film Festival 2020

Where to begin

Where to begin with Nobuhiko Obayashi

By Ren Scateni

Where to begin with Nobuhiko Obayashi

In partnership with JNTO

Women make anime

By Ren Scateni

Women make anime

Lists

The best Japanese film of every year – from 1925 to now

By Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández, Kambole Campbell and others

The best Japanese film of every year – from 1925 to now

Features

How Portrait of a Lady on Fire celebrates the female gaze

By Ren Scateni

How Portrait of a Lady on Fire celebrates the female gaze