standing side-by-side with the one and only @sophiasb.bsky.social to introduce ICA audiences to Niki de Saint Phalle's fantastical, explosive cinema (via UK premieres of new 4K restorations) next wk 💕 tkts here >> ica.art/films/in-foc...
Laura Staab
@laurastaab.bsky.social
writer and editor // writing @ Another Gaze, FIDback, MUBI/Notebook, RE:VOIR, Sight & Sound, etc. // laurastaab.xyz
"You can’t die by mimicry alone, but that won’t stop a girl from trying." ... thrilled to have commissioned one of my favourite critics, Audrey Wollen, to muse on Mascha Schilinski's Sound of Falling >> mubi.com/en/program-n...
Down, and Down: Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling
Dwelling with Sound of Falling, and its nonlinear chorus of girls’ desires and shared sufferings, Audrey Wollen sees its director reanimating an obsolete practice of death portraiture to create her ow...
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i'll be introducing Werner Schroeter's blazing adaptation of Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina tonight @ ICA London 🔥 still some tkts here >> ! ica.art/schroeter-ma...
We are delighted to announce the participants of the Open City x Another Gaze (@another-gaze.bsky.social) Critics Workshop! 🖊️ Led by Daniella Shreir (@shreir.bsky.social) and Laura Staab (@laurastaab.bsky.social). Meet this year’s cohort here✨: opencitylondon.com/news/open-ci...
Open City x Another Gaze - Announcing participants of the Critics Workshop 2026 - Open City Documentary Festival
We are delighted to announce the participants of the Another Gaze led Critics Workshop at Open City Documentary Festival 2026. Another Gaze was founded in 2016 to provide a nuanced forum for discussio...
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‘We can’t avoid the fact that, if Chantal Akerman’s is a bedroom cinema, it might well be because she spent months at a time in bed. And if it’s also a manic, joyful cinema, this might be indebted to her highs.’ Daniella Shreir (@shreir.bsky.social) on the director. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniella Shreir · My Mother’s Prison: Chantal Akerman’s Predicament
Although she often responded to questions with anecdotes and talked about the role of chance and the necessity of...
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for @another-gaze.bsky.social 💜 i wrote about Niki de Saint Phalle's life-long mission to help children protect themselves from the trauma and tedium of the adult world, and her wonderful film in which the quixotic fantasies of little girls become more than dream www.anothergaze.com/niki-de-sain...
opencitylondon.com/events/zechm... good film
Zechmeister - Open City Documentary Festival
Angela Summereder | 1981 | Austria | 79’ | digital | German spoken, English subtitles Returning to a provincial crime scene, Zechmeister reconstructs the case of its (near absent) central character M...
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we're back! applications are now open for the Open City x Another Gaze Critics Workshop ✍️ more info here >> opencitylondon.com/news/open-ci... @opencitydocs.bsky.social
had fun at the m o v i e s in 2025 intervalslondon.com/2026/01/01/m... thanks @ intervals for asking me to participate in this EOY list 📽️ 🖤
for a new RE:VOIR release, i wrote about how Jennifer Reeves dragged classic cinema and avant-garde heroism through the screwed-up realities of the '90s across three works. they’re nervy, they’re grungy; i love them re-voir.com/shop-films/p...
"I am attracted to things; I think, yes, my films are probably very fetishistic." spoke with Lucile Hadžihalilović for Notebook 🤍 👑 mubi.com/en/notebook/...
“This is what film festivals could be like, Petzold ventured: talking about cinema, talking about wood.” on the 2025 Viennale, and how the festival and its films orientated themselves in relation to the world, for Notebook mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/woodcutters-from-the-viennale
Woodcutters: From the Viennale
Masao Adachi and James Benning model an introspective form of political filmmaking, cutting through the dull platitudes of festivalspeak.
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u can try to outrun yrself ... and u will still find a Haribo Tangfastic stuck to yr shoe (crocodile, green)
u can try to outrun yrself ... and u will still find yrself reading Deleuze's Cinema 2 in Heathrow Terminal 2 💎 🤷
In Focus: Pia Frankenberg starts /tomorrow/ at the ICA ❕ ⛸️ The Assault on 35mm and Ain't Nothin' Without You 🩶 followed by an in-person Q&A with Pia www.ica.art/frankenberg-...
you can now read @caitlinquinlan.bsky.social's lovely essay on Never Sleep Again, the importance of place to Pia Frankenberg, and a cinema of women walking ❤️ >> ica.art/media/11895.pdf
💓 Tess Little on Lynn Hershman Leeson's artworks: "They visit the California Department of Motor Vehicles and submit application forms for driving licences. They meet suitors for dates in San Francisco’s Union Square, wearing blonde wigs and Revlon blush." www.anothergaze.com/woman-viewer...
come to the cinema for Schanelec's minimalist take on melodrama – and my little introduction about that, cinematic Arianes, and an image of happiness – this Saturday >> ica.art/my-sisters-g...
Laura Staab@laurastaab.bsky.social · 11mo ago
❤️ ⬆️ ⬇️ @sophiasb.bsky.social on Amy Halpern's Falling Lessons, which 'evokes a range of way of seeing and being in the world. We see a baby bottom up and a woman bottom down. In a moment, everything can turn on its head.' 🌀 www.ica.art/media/11715....
you can catch me waxing lyrical about Angela Schanelec 🤍 🤍 🤍 before My Sister's Good Fortune and Dreamed Path at the ICA in London on Saturday 13 and Tuesday 30 September ica.art/my-sisters-g... ica.art/schanelec-th...
serendipitous double bill at the ICA on 23 September: walk Marseille with Maren Eggert and Angela Schanelec, then come back to Cinema 1 in the evening to wander post-reunification Berlin with Pia Frankenberg, Lisa Kreuzer, and co🚶♀️💜 ica.art/marseille-on... ica.art/frankenberg-...
thrilled to confirm Pia Frankenberg will now be joining, in person, for a post-screening Q&A on Friday 19 September! www.ica.art/frankenberg-...
Laura Staab@laurastaab.bsky.social · 12mo agofor the ICA, i've programmed a comprehensive retrospective of Pia Frankenberg's charming, irreverent cinema. it plays Friday 19–Tuesday 23 September across three screenings, contextualised by new writing and an intro on opening night. more info and on sale here! >> www.ica.art/films/in-foc...
for the ICA, i've programmed a comprehensive retrospective of Pia Frankenberg's charming, irreverent cinema. it plays Friday 19–Tuesday 23 September across three screenings, contextualised by new writing and an intro on opening night. more info and on sale here! >> www.ica.art/films/in-foc...
