This is the second of four dispatches on some of the goods offered by the 57th London Film Festival’s ‘Experimenta’ section.
A spectre is haunting cinema—the spectre of commune porn. At a time when alternative ways of thinking, living and coexisting are becoming ever more urgent, a number of filmmakers are looking to more collectivist contexts as a platform for more profitable (if not unproblematic) narratives. At the 57th BFI London Film Festival (Lff), one may have so far seen no less than three feature-length films dealing with life amidst a co-op: Kelly Reichardt’s minimalist eco-thriller Night Moves, Paul-Julien Robert’s documentary My Fathers, My Mother and Me and Ben Rivers and Ben Russell’s spiritual pilgrimage triptych, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness.
The latter film is one of two works by Russell at this year’s festival. The other is Let Us Persevere In What We Have Resolved Before We Forget...
A spectre is haunting cinema—the spectre of commune porn. At a time when alternative ways of thinking, living and coexisting are becoming ever more urgent, a number of filmmakers are looking to more collectivist contexts as a platform for more profitable (if not unproblematic) narratives. At the 57th BFI London Film Festival (Lff), one may have so far seen no less than three feature-length films dealing with life amidst a co-op: Kelly Reichardt’s minimalist eco-thriller Night Moves, Paul-Julien Robert’s documentary My Fathers, My Mother and Me and Ben Rivers and Ben Russell’s spiritual pilgrimage triptych, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness.
The latter film is one of two works by Russell at this year’s festival. The other is Let Us Persevere In What We Have Resolved Before We Forget...
- 10/17/2013
- by Michael Pattison
- MUBI
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