sailuluo 赛璐珞

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Editorial #2:

Some changes happen naturally with time. However impatiently we may wait for them, we never quite see the moment when they actually arrive.

For the past few years, arthouse cinema has seemed to stagnate, with filmmakers emerging from labs and pitching sessions seemingly at a loss as to how to proceed. Film critics, meanwhile, have been repeating what they have heard from others, reproducing the generally accepted opinions on films circulating among the upper echelons of the press proletariat on the festival circuit.

Yet this year, I cannot say I haven’t seen films that moved me. And so, this issue is as eclectic as it gets: from a review of Chronovisor, which somehow finally manages to turn text on screen into a cinematic experience full of suspense worthy of a good thriller, to an account of the slight programming mess that was this year’s Berlinale, albeit with some notable exceptions.

Even though autumn has returned to Berlin, I have just come back from Brazil, where the beginning of spring reigns in. A sense of fear combined with excitement is in the air in the Northern as well as the Southern Hemisphere. Let’s see where the rest of the year will take us.

Maja Korbecka