Fests and events, 2/22.

"MoMA's Documentary Fortnight 2008 continues this weekend with the first of two sidebars devoted to Joan Churchill, the pioneer female director / cinematographer who produced a prolific body of work in the 1970s, when both professions were almost exclusively male," writes Rich Zwelling in the Reeler.

When the Independent asked Colin MacCabe to write an obituary of Derek Jarman - well before the man was to actually die, it turns out - he realized that "an obituary without images seemed inadequate," he recalls in the New Statesman. "We agreed to spend a day recording in images his own account of his life, which I would then use in future to make a film obituary. This footage would eventually form the basis of Derek, which goes on show this month at the Serpentine Gallery in London." And the exhibition, curated by Isaac Julien, will be on view through April 13.

The Film Panel Notetaker talks with Ed Pincus and Lucia Small about The Axe in the Attic, screening at the Museum of the Moving Image on Saturday.

"Effectively (intentionally?) playing the scares for laughs and eschewing the oversaturated confectionary palette of his two previous films - Tears of the Black Tiger and Citizen Dog - Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng's third feature The Unseeable maintains a menacing enough atmosphere, primarily through a fantastic haunted country house and its surrounding compound, the shift to a shadowy grey-green palette, and a cascading 'wait there's more!' finale." Michael Guillén begins his coverage of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. March 13 through 23.

Vince Keenan's double-barrelled reviews keep on coming from the just-wrapped Noir City Northwest.

Posted by dwhudson at February 22, 2008 9:53 AM