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Actor and filmmaker Deborah Twiss on the beauty and wonder of new frontiers, and making sexually charged movies
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Cinematographer Laura Valladao on finding the art and meaning through the in-between spaces
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'I have to fall in love with the people I am photographing'
Cinematographer Carolina Costa on the art and beauty of the landscape of the human face
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The music of chance and fate
Composer Jon Ong talks tethering sounds to images, and weaving motifs and patterns into his own song and dance.
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My radiant light
A new digitally restored 4K box set from Criterion of the final work of Polish master Krzysztof Kieślowski is cause for joy, celebration and sorrow.
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Self-portrait of the artist as a beautiful filmmaker
The films of Mia Hansen-Løve are moving, rapturous and deeply personal
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The past is never past: in conversation with Veerle Baetens
"I am an actor/filmmaker," says the gifted director When It Melts, the Sundance world premiere knockout
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After the revolution: Sundance in the age of the streaming
Early thoughts on some of the key dramatic competition titles
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