Catherine Grant

Catherine Grant is one of the scholars working in the area of video essays and videographic criticism I most admire. Her work ranges from fan videos to explorations of form, the transnational, queering, interventions into theory, materialising criticism and artistic self-expression. I very much wanted to talk to her about her work and the result...

In Conversation with Dolores Tierney

Emilio Fernández and Roberto Gavaldón are two of the great directors of Mexican Cinema´s Golden Age. Dolores Tierney is an internationally renown film scholar who has written an important book on the work of Fernández, Emilio Fernández: Pictures in the Margins, and who has also written extensively on Gaváldon. If Fernández´films are already well known,...

José Arroyo in Conversation with Josh Schulze on ‘Alternate Takes’

https://soundcloud.com/user-766042506/joshfinal-16102018-1019 Joshua Schulze is the new editor of Alternate Takes. James McDowell one of the original founders of the digital site devoted to film criticism tells me that, 'The aim of Alternate Takes is to provide analysis of cinema that is informed by academic debates, but also walks a line between the journalistic review and...