In the back of a Palestine solidarity group’s offices in Japan, the filmmaker finds a bunch of old film reels in canisters, and takes them to be digitised and preserved. This film is what he found. So, before we get into the content of the films, I wanna talk about the structure of the movie…
An absolutely fascinating film. Filmmaker Sanaz Sohrabi examines the visual archive of BP (British Petroleum, and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company as it was back in the day) as history, ethnography, propaganda, and stolen colonial artefact. In 1901 Britain bought a concession to explore for oil in Iran for the next 60 years, with Iran receiving…
The Cemetery of Cinema focuses on a young Guinean filmmaker’s search for the first film made in Guinea, and one of the first films in French-speaking Africa, Mouramani. This journey takes him on a road trip through the country, examining the reasons why film and film heritage has been allowed to be lost, despite the…