This expression is starting again to be …meaningful, almost exceptional, for the spectre of lockdown is circulating again.
Filmexplorer commits itself more and more to accompanying and discussing films in the cinema theatres, and is happy to have met:
 

RADU JUDE
 

 

for a long exchange on his Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn at the CinEast festival in Luxembourg (curated by Giuseppe Di Salvatore) – read the short essay on the film HERE
 
 

AZRA DENIZ OKYAY


 

for an in-depth Q&A on her Ghosts at the Stadtkino Basel (curated by Ruth Baettig) – listen to the podcast HERE
 
 

CRISTI PUIU & AGATHE BOSCH

for an hour-long discussion about Malmkrog from Les cinémas du Grütli in Geneva (curated by Jean Perret) – see the video HERE
 
 

MARIE LOSIER


 

at her Masterclass at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (curated by Delphine Jeanneret) – hear the edited podcast HERE
 
 

ARAMI ULLÓN

for a wonderful interview on her Apenas el sol, now in cinema theatres (Deutschschweiz) and at the festival Filmar en América Latina – see the interview and the article (PM Cicchetti) HERE
 

Filmexplorer was not able to meet
 

 

...walking alone with David Charap on his pilgrimage towards Rolle, but took the Instagram video diary of his journey seriously. What does it mean to publish during and on the making-of of a film? – read Giuseppe Di Salvatore’s article HERE.