“The Most Overhyped Human Emotion”: Signe Baumane on My Love Affair With Marriage
Signe Baumane calls romantic love, “the most overhyped human emotion.” Her latest film, My Love Affair With Marriage, also concerns itself with love, but takes…
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Alexander Abaturov on Paradise
Every summer, the front pages of newspapers around the world are filled with images of wildfires. Burning through millions of acres of land a year,…
Ken August Meyer on Angel Applicant
After being diagnosed with systemic scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease, filmmaker Ken August Meyer found himself reexamining the works of 20th century Swiss-German artist Paul…
Femme: A Genre-bending, Neo-Noir, Queer Thriller Feature Film
If you're not familiar with the neo-noir, queer thriller genre, you're about to be. FRONTRUNNER meets directors Sam Freeman and Ng Choon Ping, explori…
Power and Personalities: Jiří Havelka on The Owners
When you hear the phrase “homeowner association,” what do you picture? Perhaps it is a council of stuffy suburbanites making rules on everything from the…
Living your own (K-)drama: He Shuming on Ajoomma
In Korean, the word “ajoomma” is used to refer to a middle-aged married woman and can loosely be translated as “madam” or “Auntie.” It also…
On curiosities, collaboration and independent filmmaking: A talk with Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley
Strawberry Mansion is a fantasy film set in 2035, following the curious journey of dream auditor and taxman James Preble (played by writer-director Kentucker Audley).…
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: A Meditation on Murakami
Inspired by Haruki Murakami's short stories, Pierre Földes’ debut feature animation film, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is surreal, melancholic, dr…
FRONTRUNNER Meets Filmmaker Milorad Krstic
Name an art form, and Milorad Krstic will have studied and mastered it. He is a Slovenian painter, film director, visual artist, sculptor, author, illustrator,…
Director Oliver Murray on ‘RONNIE’S’
In his latest documentary film, RONNIE’S, writer-director Oliver Murray chronicles the life story of Ronnie Scott, the legendary founder of his epon…