an interview with Tolga Karacelik
Although his feature debut Tool Booth was one of the discoveries in the national competition of the Antalya Film Festival 2010 (Best First Film, Best Cinematographer, Best Actor – Serkan Ercan), the jury of the Istanbul Film Festival did not pay attention to his unquestionable talent. However, Tolga Karacelik definitely deserves a special focus. Born in 1981 in Istanbul, he studied Law at the Marmara University and Film in New York. His latest short film (…)
♦ Introduction
This blog is a place for all contributors of Nisimazine to continue to write, photograph, make video and discuss cinema together after the workshops. An extension of the magazine, this is a free space to keep sharing new insights and experiences through reviews, essays, quotes, interviews and festival reports. You can join any conversation by posting comments. So…, let’s go !
Friday 13 May 2011Authority restricts people to become themselves
By Mariana Hristova (Bulgaria), 13 May 2011 | Free section |Translations: [en]
New Turkish Cinema: The Third Wave
By Mariana Hristova (Bulgaria), 13 May 2011 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Being a foreign guest at the Istanbul Film Festival and watching some films different than Turkish doesn’t make much sense. Not because the international competition is not important, on the contrary – it has an exceptional regulation to select films based on arts or literary adaptations and presents a variety of filmmakers coming from around the world. But far more intriguing is the Turkish cinema program consisting of subsections titled Documentaries, New Turkish Cinema and the National (…)
Friday 15 April 2011Melancholy, adolescence and the Italian touch. All the Suns, Philippe Claudel’s successful gamble
By Pierre–Anthony Canovas (France), 15 April 2011 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Award-winning French writer Philippe Claudel proves that a good author can also be a good director. His second movie All the Suns depicts with charm, optimism and originality the doubts of an Italian widower and father in Strasbourg.
Without a doubt, it’s the good surprise of the week. All the Suns, (Tous les Soleils) is a delightful comedy, the kind of film that lightens your day. I am not writing this out of pure kindness or exaggeration. The reason is simpler. I must confess that I (…)
Without a doubt, it’s the good surprise of the week. All the Suns, (Tous les Soleils) is a delightful comedy, the kind of film that lightens your day. I am not writing this out of pure kindness or exaggeration. The reason is simpler. I must confess that I (…)
Friday 11 February 20112010 in cinema
By Matthieu Darras (France), 11 February 2011 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Remember Y2K? The millennium bug that is. Imagine it really happened. After New Year’s Eve, let’s say we would all have woken up directly in 2010, January the 1st, shortcutting all the 2000’s. Going to the nearby multiplex to start the year, we would witness James Cameron’s last piece Avatar monopolizing all the screens. No surprise given the global success of Titanic three years before. And if Leonardo DiCaprio was not pairing with Cameron anymore, we could enjoy his presence in two hits of (…)
Friday 17 December 201048
By Sara Barberis, 17 December 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Every year at the end of november Turin comes to life during the ten
days of the Torino Film Festival. Hundreds of movies, great directors walking
in the streets, hot chocolates and young promises all meeting in a
temporary village of images and imagination. In 2010 Franti (Italian NISI MASA organisation) has started a blog of reviews to let its members participate more actively in the festival and as a way to praise a festival which is very significant for them and Turin: http://torinofilmfestival2010.blogspot.com/. Here one of the articles that was written during the festival:
Wednesday 8 September 2010Little Red Riding into the Unfamiliar
By Erzsébet Plájás (Romania), 8 September 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
The thrill of the unknown, the sensual magnet of the forbidden leads to discovery in the vivid imagination of a young girl, and unveils new paths for experimentation to the young Romanian director, Eva Pervolovici. Chosen amongst the 5 finalists of the 2011 Berlin Today Award – Berlinale Talent Campus short film competition, Eva’s film project, LITTLE RED produced by Beleza Film, leaves the familiar sector to enter the mythical woods. “The first part is very realistic, almost like the Romanian (…)
Thursday 8 July 2010Nicolas Philibert on his latest conscientious study of Nénette
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 8 July 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
The latest work from the acclaimed documentarist Nicolas Philibert (Être et Avoir), is a meticulous observation of a famous orang-utan - Nénette - kept in the Jardin de Plantes, one of the oldest zoos in Paris. The animal sees 600,000 visitors a year - all having something to say when gazing at her through the glass, as she remains silent, mysterious, elusive.
Philibert plays with the visible and the invisible, capturing a thought-provoking image of our humanistic fears and projections, (…)
Philibert plays with the visible and the invisible, capturing a thought-provoking image of our humanistic fears and projections, (…)
Thursday 10 June 2010Special from TIFF 2010: Interview with Cristian Pascariu
By Cristina Grosan (Romania), 10 June 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Cristian Pascariu is a 4th year student of the very young Theatre and Television school in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In his short film Deaf rock’n’roll, a deaf woman tries to reconnect with her rock-star son after abandoning him 35 years ago. While she goes to his concert she has to face her fears and a world which doesn’t understand her. The first filmmaker from the Cluj school to be selected in official competition at the Transylvanian International Film Festival (TIFF), Cristian fought hard to get his short to the big screen. Here’s how.
by Cristina Grosan
Friday 16 April 2010Boris Khlebnikov – the other side of the Empire
By Anna Sajewicz (Russia), 16 April 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Korotkoe zamykanie (Short circuit) Five short films. Five love stories. Five young Russian directors. Among them Ivan Vyrypaev and his story. A young Polish girl comes to Moscow. She’s hanging around the city during Victory Day, she’s observing people, taking pictures, relaxing. She meets a guy, young Russian boy. They don’t understand each other cause the girl doesn’t speak Russian. But they are talking. The point is not to UNDESRTAND but to FEEL, to SENSE. The Russian guy says – the time of (…)
Thursday 25 February 2010this to me is sophistication
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France), 25 February 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
"You ought to keep you awake"
"People have seen everything" is a quote from Nicolas Provost that sticks out of all the notes I took during our hour-long interview at the Haunch of Venison gallery in Berlin, where selected works of the Belgian video artist where shown while his latest short film Long live the new flesh competed in the Berlinale; especially because it is the antipode of what I felt during my first encounter with one of his films, and I warmly invite you to meet the work of an alchemist that knows how to kidnap your senses by aiming straight to the heart.
Wednesday 24 February 2010Interview: Lizette Gram Mygind on Danish cinephilia
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 24 February 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Danish films always had a strong presence in the festival circuit, but this year the Danes cannot be more proud of their seven entries, that were selected in various strands at the Berlinale. But where have all those Dogma rules gone? How long will the television dictatorship rule? Why have the domestic box office suffered, and in which ways have they managed to nurture emerging talent?
Festival Manager of the Danish Film Institute, Lizette Gram Mygind is a woman with a genuine positive (…)
Festival Manager of the Danish Film Institute, Lizette Gram Mygind is a woman with a genuine positive (…)
Thursday 18 February 2010Sight and Sound editor-in-chief, Nick James
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 18 February 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Sight and Sound editor-in-chief, Nick James, participating in a Talent Campus panel on film criticism.
Nicolas Provost
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 18 February 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Being Nicolas Provost
All good with Berlinale, but...
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 18 February 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
All good with the Berlinale, but someone has to take care of that snow…
Talent Campus #8: Notes on Claire Denis
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 18 February 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Whenever I’ve been to a Claire Denis talk, something mysterious happens: it is absolutely impossible not to pay attention. Her scattered words remind me of laundry hung out to dry on a line. As seen in the military milieu of Beau Travail, each piece of clothing is completely autonomous, with its own gravity, and enfolding its own full-blown meaning. Loosely hanging from the rope of language, her words are almost interchangeable. As though you could move the ‘pieces’ of the puzzle around, (…)
Tuesday 16 February 2010Interview w/ Ruben Östlund
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France), 16 February 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
The Sky (or Heaven) over Berlinale
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 16 February 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Berlin’s coldest month never was an obstacle for the hundreds of people embracing what has become the coolest international festival in Europe. Coolest in temperature but also in character, this city transforms into a playground for film lovers that congregate around Potsdamer Platz like bees in honey. And there is a certain charm, or should I call it euphoria, to be around like-minded people who fly from all over the world to celebrate its 60th birthday. Or at least that is a good excuse. (…)
Sunday 14 February 2010it feels like running.
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France), 14 February 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
It’s my third breakfast (the Holiday Inn serves it until 12, definitely to our advantage) in Berlin and it feels it’s been a week already.
A yellow accreditation gets you quite far, and we’re enjoying it to the fullest: spontaneous film screenings, cuts in line, chats with Variety, forgetting to ask for who this interview is, our jury debates, our jury at night, NOT getting tickets for friends… What the OFAJ-DFJW, our organisers, have put up for us here is simply amazing.
To be in a (…)
A yellow accreditation gets you quite far, and we’re enjoying it to the fullest: spontaneous film screenings, cuts in line, chats with Variety, forgetting to ask for who this interview is, our jury debates, our jury at night, NOT getting tickets for friends… What the OFAJ-DFJW, our organisers, have put up for us here is simply amazing.
To be in a (…)
Saturday 13 February 2010Transmitting live from poor but sexy.
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France), 13 February 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Thursday 11 February 2010Elephant in the Middle of the Room: Orphan Cinema in Peru
By Juan Daniel (Peru), 11 February 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
I’m not going to talk about La teta asustada (The Milk of Sorrow) nor a Peruvian film industry, which by the way doesn’t exist. There’s money involved, as filmmakers and, of course, films, but none of these belong to or are part of us. We don’t have an identity as we don’t have a home nor fathers. The only thing that unites some of us is being film industry rejects that haven’t given up the biological need of making films.
After Claudia Llosa’s over valuated 2009 Berlinale victory, many (…)
After Claudia Llosa’s over valuated 2009 Berlinale victory, many (…)
Tuesday 9 February 2010Harmony Korine and Trash Humpers
By Juan Daniel (Peru), 9 February 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Interview by Juan Daniel with Harmony Korine during the 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam, where his film ’Trash Humpers’ was shown.
Friday 29 January 2010Juan Daniel at IFFR
By Juan Daniel (Peru), 29 January 2010 | Free section |Translations: [en]
Juan Daniel, videoblogger of the Nisimazine Lima 2009 workshop, is continuing his adventures at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, not only with more vlogs, but also to present his work in progress, a feature film, at the CineMart. This is his first vlog in Rotterdam. More to follow..
IFFR 2010: Day 1 from Hard//Hoofd on Vimeo.
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