I adored Nicolás Pereda’s EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOISE. Delightful formal play with a variety of cameras and sound recordings, compositions and performances on and off screen, and also it’s hilarious (I laughed out loud more than during anything else I’ve watched this year)

Raocoön

the projected moving image

I wrote about the revelatory filmography of Peter Bundy, who ought to be known as one of the great American experimental filmmakers of the late 70s/early 80s Four of his films streaming on Ultra Dogme (online for the first time ever) and others this wknd at Tone Glow Film Fest

As If the Trees By Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us: The Films of Peter Bundy - Ultra Dogme

Alex Fields on Peter Bundy and how his evolving structuralist approach trained a perceptive eye and ear on the idiosyncrasies and profundities of regional American life and landscapes.

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someone should organize a James Coleman retrospective in North America

Some notes on Prismatic Ground 2026–particularly the wonderful films of Parine Jaddo—for Not Reconciled, which you should subscribe to if you care about this sort of thing notreconciled.substack.com/p/prismatic-...

Prismatic Ground 2026: Parine Jaddo, etc.

plus Chinese avant-garde films, early Japanese video art, a free online program, and some other things

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here’s a chronological list of the 30 best 1970s experimental/psychedelic folk albums that I made a few years ago

unhappy Ruination Day to all who commemorate youtu.be/FjwatDksOvQ?...

April the 14th, Pt. 1

YouTube video by Gillian Welch - Topic

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My report on Big Ears 2026, with special concern for fingerpickin guitarists and the many achievements of SML

A Universe of Music in an Appalachian City: Big Ears Festival 2026 - Ultra Dogme

Alex Fields reports from this year's Big Ears in Knoxville, delving into the music festival's far-reaching lineup, moods and spaces.

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Bandcamp Friday recs

A few weeks ago I got to interview Gwenifer Raymond, who made my favorite album of 2025, and tomorrow I get to see her at Big Ears toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...

Tone Glow 218: Gwenifer Raymond

An interview with the Welsh fingerpicking guitarist about the blues, how her "piss-poor attention span" informs her compositional approach, and her album 'Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark' (2025)

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I reviewed RELICTO (a documentary about the last Tinigua man) and SUBURBIA, THERE AND BACK (Damien Cattinari’s feature-length landscape film about Paris and its suburbs) for In Review Online’s first Cinéma du Réel dispatch inreviewonline.com/2026/03/25/c...

Cinéma du Réel 2026 — Dispatch 1: Dao, We Are the Fruits of the Forest, Relicto | In Review Online

A new film festival dispatch from 2026 Cinema du Reel for film review site in Review Online.

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I wrote about a bunch of films from this year’s Cinéma du Réel, happening now notreconciled.substack.com/p/cinema-du-...

Cinéma du Réel 2026, part 1

There are frequent reasons to lament the documentary takeover of experimental film programming, but Cinéma du Réel is never one of them.

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I interviewed the directors of the best film of 2026 so far, CHRONOVISOR toneglow.substack.com/p/film-show-...

Film Show 062: Jack Auen & Kevin Walker

An interview with the filmmaking duo about Umberto Eco, capturing obsession on film, and the ideas and stories behind their debut feature 'Chronovisor' (2026), the highlight of this year's IFFR

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a V Mortensen travel show called Viggo In Italia

on Not Reconciled, I wrote notes on seven of the best short films I saw from the 2026 IFFR program notreconciled.substack.com/p/rotterdam-...

Rotterdam 2026: Shorts Highlights

IFFR is one of the most exciting programs for me each year, not just because of the sheer number of films and the high proportion of formalist and experimental work, but because of the unusually stron...

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First and last entries from a notebook my grandpa maintained for 67 years

“We reject that our programmers have intimidated filmmakers, that we’ve silenced filmmakers,” says Berlinale Director Tricia Tuttle, and that’s why she’s going to individually contact filmmakers who signed this letter to intimidate and silence them into removing their names

RIP Simeon Fields, elder statesman of east Kentucky folk music, fingerpicker and bridge player extraordinaire, mortal enemy of Bush and Trump, immortal UK basketball fan, grandpa (and great-great grandpa) to a legion of us

they’re telling me this is a sports team mascot. no. this is the murderer in a giallo film

someone on the opposite side of the world in Melbourne organized a screening of avant garde Christmas films based on the list I made a couple years ago, and mailed me a copy of the program

Fred Wiseman was born two months before my grandpa in 1930; two men of a very different generation who fundamentally shaped my view of art, one through film and one through music Now Wiseman is gone and my grandpa has terminal stomach cancer and probably days or weeks to live

for those celebrating the weekend’s holiday (or those who just like flowers) boxd.it/t2Fhe

Experimental flower films for Valentine’s Day

Send to your sweeties who love form-forward cinema

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drinking Fritz Lang’s favorite Riesling tonight

Just learned that Aaron Paul is not the brother of Jake and Logan Paul Next you’re gonna tell me that John Paul II ain’t their dad

I’ve already seen a number of very good films this year courtesy of the IFFR program. CHRONOVISOR is the best of them but also: THE KILLING OF MEGHNAD (Avikunthak) TYCOON (Zhang) ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE A MOVIE IS A GUN (Sein) XTENDED RELEASE (Solondz) FOR ONCE I DREAMED OF YOU (Solar)

Happy fifth birthday to my dog Waylon and happy twenty-fifth birthday to the song “Drops of Jupiter” by Train

ICE agents aren’t law enforcement who make mistakes or cross lines. They’re fascist thugs whose entire purpose is violence against racial and political enemies

Racism, safety for kids and migrant workers, the right of people to be in public without being assaulted by brownshirts, are all very obviously union issues Solidarity with the strikers in Minnesota, and may we all rise to the occasion when the time comes (which it will soon, if it hasn’t already)

I asked an artist about a screener for her film at IFFR and she told me that’s how she found out her film is screening at IFFR