17: Cold Metal / Tycoon
On Clemente Castor's Cold Metal (2025) and Charlotte Zhang's Tycoon (2026), and on fiction as non-fiction and the cinema of the real
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16: The Vanishing Point / Past Future Continuous
On Bani Khoshnoudi's The Vanishing Point (2025) and Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani's Past Future Continuous (2025), and on homes and homelands
15: Listen to the Voices
On Maxime Jean-Baptiste's Listen to the Voices (2024), and on the continual construction of realities
14: In the Manner of Smoke / Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued
On Julian Castronovo’s Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (2025) and Armand Yervant Tufenkian’s In the Manner of Smoke (2025), and on essay films as attempts and efforts
13: Anachronic Chronicles: Voyages Inside/Out Asia
On Pan Lu and Yu Araki’s Anachronic Chronicles: Voyages Inside/Out Asia (2021), and on the meaning of making home movies.
12: The Garden Cadences
On Dane Komljen's The Garden Cadences (2024), and on good portraiture.
11: Silence of Reason
On Kumjana Novakova’s Silence of Reason (2023), and on speaking truth to atrocity.
10: Nowhere Near
On Miko Revereza's Nowhere Near (2023), and on leaving one home to find others.
09: Anhell69
On Theo Montoya's Anhell69 (2022), and on documenting the lives of dead friends.
08: Lake Forest Park
On Kersti Jan Werdal’s Lake Forest Park (2021), and on oblique sorts of narratives.