Halfmoon
E. Kovacs · 96 min
We are a small editorial desk in West Los Angeles that reads films the way our grandparents read newspapers — slowly, with margins and cups of coffee. Every Friday we publish a short bulletin on the week in independent film: a lead essay, five posters, four filmmakers, and a column of notes. No algorithms. No autoplay. A hand-set page.
Feature and mid-length non-fiction, with particular attention to observational cinema and the essay form. Twice-monthly reviews; a rolling list of what is worth the drive.
Browse 24 titles →Fiction under thirty minutes: graduate thesis work, festival standouts and early cuts from directors we will all be reading about two winters from now.
Browse 38 titles →A standing column for film criticism built out of image and rhythm rather than voice-over — found footage, archival collage and first-person montage.
Browse 17 titles →Independent features from American and international studios under 50 people. We interview producers, read the call sheets and watch the rough cuts so you do not have to.
Browse 29 titles →Documentary and slow-cinema director. Her third feature, Halfmoon, premiered at Locarno in August and is the subject of this week’s lead essay. Currently in residence through June.
Short-form dramatist whose interior fictions are set, almost always, in rooms where very little happens for very long. Her collected shorts are screening as a single program throughout April.
Landscape-documentary work. Saltlands is a 112-minute meditation on the high desert north of the Great Salt Lake, shot over fourteen months in 16mm and sound design.
Visual essayist whose work constructs short histories out of 1970s Italian television advertising. Teaches found-footage practice at the IULM once every spring.
If you have made a film and want it read carefully, submit a film →