Where The Road Leads (2023): ‘Slamdance’ Review – Classic coming-of-age tales usually circle around a journey characterized by loss, personal growth, and some sort of epiphanic closure at the end. One has…
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Before watching the documentary film, I needed to understand what its title means. ‘Ferroequinology’ loosely translates to the study of trains or the study of locomotives – iron horses as some would…
If the title, premiering at Slamdance Film Festival this year, reminds you of Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha (2013), chances are that you are not alone. But Hannah Ha Ha – the modest,…
We are Living Things Slamdance Review: The word Alien has two distinct meanings – one, a hypothetical or fictional being from another world; and two, a foreigner who is not a naturalistic…
Ethan Eng’s Therapy Dogs has a deliberate scrappy design and aesthetic to it. There are streaks of waywardness and ample detours though it can be easily argued Eng is hyper-conscious of piling…
Frauke Havemann’s Be Right Back, premiering at Slamdance, is a curious, odd film. It wears its deliberate elliptical style and mode of narration with great indulgence, to a degree, it starts to…