This year brought 18 features and seven shorts, all presented with live musical accompaniment.
Student attempts to do for Crime and Punishment what Darezhan Omirbaev’s earlier Chouga did for Anna Karenina.
The film is an intensification of the rigorous aesthetic preoccupations and occasionally precious thematic concerns that have long marked Anderson’s films.
Abendland is more than a meditation on how our lives, from birth to death, have become mechanical, and so aseptic.
The festival is a place for encountering first-time visions as well as catching up with established artists.
Commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, it’s no surprise that BAM150 is both celebratory and promotional.
The film’s dramatization of Paul’s psychological “rubberneck” doesn’t just lie in literal details.
Namir Abdel Meseeh’s documentary is more about the “Me” rather than the “Virgin” or “the Copts” of its title.
One of Yossi’s virtues is Eytan Fox’s refusal to boil his main character down to an easy psychological framework.
The film makes a compelling case for Lepage’s vision and thrillingly chronicles the risks and excitement of a grand artistic endeavor.
Samsara is another visually stunning, globe-trotting think piece from the director of Baraka.
The festival has blossomed into a great facilitator and promoter of international film and video culture.
Bay of All Saints eschews stereotypical portrayals of Brazilian slums as the festering ground for prostitution and drug trafficking.
As the music portion of the festival, and SXSW itself, draws to a close, there’s a lot to consider.
Indie Game follows two development teams clocking unnatural hours to complete their respective games before they run out of money and sanity.
The festival is committed to compiling a slate of artistically diverse films from every corner of the world.
Loose, shaggy, and more than a little rough, Gimme the Loot hearkens back to NYC indies like Kids.
Watching V/H/S is a gruesome and twisted blast.
Under African Skies is a positive breather after the heaviness of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.
Music is chaos, in the sense that it’s usually ruled by random chance rather than any distinct system.
Writers are often told that, when it comes to the act of artistic creation, one should “write what you know.”