FILMEXPLORER Podcasts (English)

Discussion with the curators Evelyn Kreutzer, Julian Ross and Volker Pantenburg about the video essays «A History of the World According to Getty Images» by Richard Misek, «Mariam Jafri Vs. Maryam Jafri» by Maryam Jafri, and «The Cinema and the Wind and Photography» by Hartmut Bitomsky. You can watch the video essays on FILMEXPLORER's website from the 29/9 to the 20/10/2024.

Live-Podcast at Bildrausch Filmfest Basel 2024 about the film «Matt and Mara» with the director Kazik Radwanski, Öykü Sofuoglu and Anaïs Steiner | in English (with introduction in French)

Live-Podcast at Bildrausch Filmfest Basel 2024 about «Dormir de olhos abertos» with the director Nele Wohlatz, Nicolas Bézard and Giuseppe Di Salvatore | Sound: Olivier Legras | in English (with introduction in French)

Live-Podcast at Bildrausch Filmfest Basel 2024 about the movie «Pepe» with the director Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias, Nicolas Bézard and Giuseppe Di Salvatore | Sound: Olivier Legras | in English (with introduction in French)

Interview with Sofie Benoot about her «Apple Cider Vinegar» by Giuseppe Di Salvatore | Visions du Réel Nyon 2024 | Editing: Morgane Frund

Discussion between Öykü Sofuoğlu and Giuseppe Di Salvatore about Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's «Evil Does Not Exist» - Editing: Morgane Frund

Interview with Leonor Teles on her film «Baan» at its premiere at the Locarno Film Festival 2023 | realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore | edited by Jeannette Wolf

Interview with Kevin B. Lee at the Locarno Film Festival 2023 | realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore | edited by Morgane Frund

Discussion with Yun-hua Chen on the Piazza grande at the Locarno Film Festival 2023 | realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore | edited by Morgane Frund

Discussion with Sung Moon and Marcelo Alderete on the Piazza grande at the Locarno Film Festival 2023 | realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore | edited by Morgane Frund

Interview with Filipa Ramos, co-curator of the Film Programme at Art Basel 2023, by Giuseppe Di Salvatore | Editing: Morgane Frund

After having discussed his This Action Lies five years ago, Filmexplorer meets James N. Kienitz Wilkins in Nyon for the premiere of his Still Film at Visions du Réel 2023 and continue the exchange on his filmmaking. Interview: Giuseppe Di Salvatore | Editing: Ruth Baettig

The team of FILMEXPLORER's Live Radio at the Bildrausch Filmfest 2023 meets Lois Patiño on the Stadtkino Piazza in Basel to discuss his last wonderful filmic work «Samsara». Interview by Giuseppe Di Salvatore and Emilien Gür | Editing: Olivier Legras

Filmexplorer took advantage of the film curator Leonardo Bigazzi's presence in Nyon in the Jury of the section “Burning Lights” at Visions du Réel 2023 in order to discuss with him several topics that equally mark Filmexplorer's profile, from the art-cinema interface to the notion of expanded cinema, and the tasks of festivals today.

Philippe Ciompi is a renowned sound designer and editor who insists on the importance of going beyond a compartmental approach to film production. Good sound editing starts with grasping the global significance of the film project.

Filmexplorer's Editing Collection | Season 1 (3/5) Beatrice Gibson recognises the influence of the modernist approach to composition in her artistic work. Showing the architecture of a composition becomes part of the film language, for which the concentration on editing will clearly be of enormous importance. This implies an active spectatorship, just like in the case of poetry.

Chloé Galibert-Laîné presents: «A Room with a Coconut View» by Tulapop Saenjaoren Kevin B. Lee presents: «Irani Bag» by Maryam Tafakory Johannes Binotto presents: «3xShapes of Home» by Elisabeth Brun

Chloé Galibert-Laîné presents: «Life Without Dreams» by Jessica Bardsley Kevin B. Lee presents: «Michael Ironside and I» by Marian Mayland Johannes Binotto presents: «Le mystère des roches de Kador» by Léonce Perret

Chloé Galibert-Laîné presents: «Distant Feeling(s) #9», by Annie Abrahams and Daniel Pinheiro Kevin B. Lee presents: «One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean», by Wang Yuyan Johannes Binotto presents: «How to Perform Teaching During a Pandemic Spring Session, 2020: GENDER STUDIES, Rain & Cats Cut», by Dayna McLeod

The three curators Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto discuss the three video essays that they have proposed for the first exhibition of Filmexplorer's Video Essay Gallery, “Home Positions”. «La position couchée», by Seumboy Vrainom :€ «Home When You Return», by Carl Elsaesser «Hinterlasse Spuren (Leaving Traces)», by Sara Čolić

Café Critique about Helena Wittmann's film «Human Flowers of Flesh» at the Locarno Film Festival 2022. Discussants: Yun-Hua Chen, Leonardo Goi, Sona Karapoghosyan (Locarno Critics' Academy), Dominic Schmid, Giuseppe Di Salvatore. Editing and introduction: Jeannette Wolf

Discussion about «Petite Solange» by Axelle Roppert with Cassiane Pfund, Alan Mattli, Dominic Schmid, Giuseppe Di Salvatore | Concept & Editing: Jeannette Wolf

Filmexplorer met Luciana Acuña, Alejo and Cleo Moguillansky at the Bildrausch Filmfest Basel, and discussed with them their film «La edad media» and the particular experience of doing it (interview by Giuseppe Di Salvatore and Ruth Baettig; production by Nicolas Bézard and Olivier Legras).

Filmexplorer was able meet David Easteal at the Bildrausch Filmfest Basel, and discuss with him his film «The Plains», which won the Peter Liechti Award (interview by Giuseppe Di Salvatore and Ruth Baettig; production by Nicolas Bézard and Olivier Legras).

Marie Losier in a talk with Delphine Jeanneret at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2021 - edited version.

Talk with Norika Sefa about «Looking for Venera» at Bildrausch Filmfest Basel.

Talk with Shahram Mokri about «Careless Crime» at Bildrausch Filmfest Basel.

Talk with Tim Leyendekker about «Feast» at Bildrausch Filmfest Basel.

Talk with Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Ruth Baettig, Giuseppe Di Salvatore | Concept & Editing: Ruth Baettig

Live discussion with Sebastian Mez on his film «Die grosse Leere - The Great Void» on Clubhouse during the festival Visions du Réel Nyon 2021 Editing: Ruth Baettig

Live discussion on Clubhouse during the festival Visions du Réel Nyon 2021 with Nikola Ilić and Corina Schwingruber Ilić. Editing: Ruth Baettig

Live discussion with Toby Bull on «Some Kind of Intimacy», and with Krystsina Savutsina on «Khan's Flesh» on Clubhouse during the Festival Visions du Réel 2021

Jeannette Wolf hat sich nach der Vorpremiere im Kino Rex am 31 Januar 2022 mit Regisseurin Yngvild Sve Flikke und Hauptdarstellerin Kristine Kujath Thorp über den Film «Ninjababy» unterhalten.

The three curators Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto discuss the three video essays that they have proposed for the first exhibition of Filmexplorer's Video Essay Gallery, “Home Positions”. «La position couchée», by Seumboy Vrainom :€ «Home When You Return», by Carl Elsaesser «Hinterlasse Spuren (Leaving Traces)», by Sara Čolić Among the topics of the discussion: home as the uncanny place of defamiliarization, discomfort in embodiment and memory, trusting the experimental and amateur approach as revelatory, video essay as post-cinematic experience, video-essay as opening the potentialities of cinema, video essay as another form of temporality and the role of community in defining video essay.

A critical text by Giuseppe Di Salvatore on Christian Petzold's «Undine», read by Nils Jensen and edited by Annatina Stalder. […] The philological crux of dealing with mobile origins therefore reveals nothing but the fundamental delay that constitutes the “original” substance, matter and starting point of Petzold's films.

A critical text by Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie on Agustina Comedi's film «El silencio es un cuerpo que cae», read by Nils Jensen and edited by Annatina Stalder. […] Killing off a part of your parent is felt in every lingering scene of Comedi as a child ensconced in a bubble of love, cutely demanding the direction of his lens.

A critical text by Davide Abbatescianni on Jan Komasa's film «Corpus Christi», read by Nils Jansen and edited by Annatina Stalder. […] One thing is certain; in his performance, Bielenia is helped by his extraordinary physique du rôle, which powerfully embodies the dichotomies of his character, whilst his consummate acting celebrates its complexity.

A critical text by Jorge Yglesias on Roy Andersson's film «About Endlessness», read by Amy Lombardi and edited by Lena von Tscharner. [...] To take a look at some historical events and the banality of everyday life and mix them displaying a sense of humour that flirts with the uncanny as Andersson does, is one of the most outstanding feats of contemporary cinema, the evidence that Artifice is the best way to represent the Real.

A critical text by Giuseppe Di Salvatore on Mischa Hedinger's film «African Mirror», read by Amy Lombardi and edited by Jorge Cadena. [...] Mischa Hedinger's journey into Gardi's powerful imagination is not only a political journey into our relationship with Africa, but also a journey throughout filmmaking and its political consequences.

Audio-interview with Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter on their film «Space Dogs», realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore at the Locarno Film Festival 2019 - concept and editing by Ruth Baettig.

An essay by Giuseppe Di Salvatore on Béla Tarr's art of cinema, read by Julian Laybourne and edited by Jorge Cadena. [...] What seems to me very particular in experiencing his films is not that we experience a sort of half-immersion half-distance regarding the moving images on the screen, but that he is able to intensify the feelings of both immersion and distance at the same time.

Audio interview with William Kentridge, realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore in occasion of his exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel in 2019 and edited by Ruth Baettig. Music excerpts: (C) William Kentridge. An exceptional podcast with a generous artist!

A critical text by Giuseppe Di Salvatore on RaMell Ross' film «Hale County This Morning, This Evening», read by Julian Laybourne and edited by Jorge Cadena. [...] The incredible density of the film depends on the pulsating editing – which willingly plays with purely visual associations – but also on the photographic approach to almost every frame.

A critical text by Laura Davis on Petra Costa's film «Elena», read by Amy Lombardi and edited by Lena von Tscharner. [...] The filmmaker embodies and thereby reanimates Elena. It is in this way her camera enables us access to reality without entirely carving out the insides of the first person...

A critical text by Giuseppe Di Salvatore on Wang Xiaoshuai's film «So Long, My Son», read by Amy Lombardi and edited by Jorge Cadena. [...] The epic tonality of the tale does not find its accomplishment in glory or victory, but in piety. In its exclamative climax we feel the breath of humanism.

Two critical texts by Jorge Yglesias and Giuseppe Di Salvatore on Sergei Loznitsa's film «State Funeral», read by Amy Lombardi and edited by Lena von Tscharner. [...] Turning propaganda material in a work of art, he demolishes the ideology that pervades the documents he´s dealing with.

Audio-Interview with Andrei Cohn on his film Arest at the festival Black Movie Geneva 2020, realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore, edited by Ruth Baettig. Here is the very exciting interview with Andrei Cohn on confrontation with the past, the normality of evil, the function of his particular way of editing, the shooting set, and the consequences of this film on the audience.

Discussion with Apichatpong Weerasethakul at the HEAD Cinéma in Geneva - November 2016 - edited by Ruth Baettig.

Audio interview with Lav Diaz, realised by Jean Perret at the Bildrauch Filmfest in June 2017 and edited by Ruth Baettig.

Audio interview with Elene Naveriani on her film «I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth» at its world premiere at the Solothurner Filmtage 2017, realised by Giuseppe Di Salvatore and edited by Ruth Baettig.

A critical tex by Giuseppe Di Salvatore on Vincent Meessen's film «Ultramarine», read by Julian Laybourne and edited by Jorge Cadena. [...] A transversal museum collection becomes a powerfully meaningful connection of stories, each object telling a story of power, of exploitation, of domination.