Cut and Spliced A Locarno Critics Academy Correspondence

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  • Ana Vaz’s Hanabi (2026) weaves street footage of Tokyo and the Tohoku region together with a voiceover.
  • Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch's Siren Island ( 1981) makes disjunctive use of montage.
  • In Umair Bilal's As Light As Air, time is suspended and color drains into vital, vital color, a scene that drains the vital and drains the sense of time.
  • The film is a defiant stream of consciousness that refuses to remove patriarchal narratives, removes Odysseus from the ears.
Notebook, in partnership with the Locarno Critics Academy, presents a series of critical correspondences in which this years participants look back at the Swiss film festival.

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