ren scateni
@whateverren
writer, film curator, programmer | he/they | renscateni AT gmail DOT com丨🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
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my latest review from @ArtReview_ asia spring issue is also available to read online! this one took quite a long editorial back-and-forth to get published but i'm so happy to see it making it to print. FLOWERS OF BELAU is such a dreamy, composite work 🌺
Chikako Yamashiro’s new film is the latest to explore historical memory, war trauma and the geopolitical situation of her homeland, Okinawa artreview.com/flowers-of-bel…
tonight! hope to see some of you there!
Violent passions are unleashed at a remote Japanese boarding school in Summer Vacation 1999, a rediscovered classic that offers a strikingly androgynous exploration of teenage yearning and desire. Fri 26 Apr, 20:40 @BFI + intro by @whateverren: queereast.org.uk/event/summer-v…
ICYMI, our just-o'er-the-border neighbours @berwickfilmfest commissioned Alchemy Trustee @whateverren to write on Fujisawa Isao’s Bye Bye Love (1974) as part of their 19th edition last month. A critique, very much, to pique! bfmaf.org/essay/this-tra…
Actually shameful behaviour from @HOME_mcr I’m embarrassed for you Art is political, as is so much of the art you display/feature at what is a publicly funded Manchester multi arts centre
thinking back to this silly little announcement ten shorts! all world premieres! what a concept!
When a festival upholds this, countless opportunities are missed while filmmakers hold out false hope. I understand that festivals feel they need to do whatever they can to attract audiences but I can almost guarantee the premiere status of a short has never sold a ticket.
Great thread on festival premiere status, a concept that should have been ditched long ago — especially for short films which have slim to no avenues for distribution outside of festivals.
In November of this year, @visionsdureel contacted me about my submission, saying they were potentially interested but would have to make final decisions later. All good, nice that they liked the piece. 1/
We’re turning five this year! Explore queer cinema, performances, arts and cultures from East and Southeast Asia in our most ambitious programme yet. #QueerEast Festival takes place 17-28 April in venues across London. Discover the line-up: queereast.org.uk/festival-2024/
While that other list is going viral, let’s also take a look at this list of 6,000 filmmakers, actors, curators, film critics, & other workers essential to the international film industry that stand FOR Palestine. @FW4Palestine #FreePalestine #CeaseFireNow filmworkersforpalestine.org
i saw a film critic who posts exclusively to a wordpress blog proudly mention having signed this so that’s the level of “creatives and professionals” you’re looking at here
Over 1,000 Jewish creatives and professionals have now denounced Jonathan Glazer’s "Zone of Interest" Oscars speech in an open letter. variety.com/2024/film/news…
finally made my @talking_shorts debut with many thanks to @NielsPutman 🙏 talkingshorts.com/the-fall-of-in…
you can also find a fantastic essay by @whateverren on Bye Bye Love in our festival catalogue
was blown away by the recently found late-Japanese New Wave gem BYE BYE LOVE (1974) by Isao Fujisawa @berwickfilmfest: a queer, psychedelic fever dream about a man who shoots a cop and goes on the lam with his genderfluid shoplifting lover through the countryside.
In light of Berlinale’s completely unhinged (yet unsurprising to anyone who has been following Germany’s behavior in recent months) statements, I think this ‘bears’ repeating…
in light of the recent TIFF and Oberhausen statements, I'd like to note that it's film festivals whose existence depend on filmmakers, and not the other way around. Building community, engaged programmers, setting up screenings? ALL ESSENTIAL. Festivals? It really depends.
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