Xan Brooks
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Extended reality takes visitors from the ruins of West Bank to 17th-century Amsterdam at Venice Immersive (opens the original)
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From frivolous to serious, virtual nosy passersby to the impact of climate change, the groundbreaking festival draws to a close – but this year the exhibits live on The first installation one encounters on visiting Venice Immersive, the film festival’s reliably head-spinning showcase for new media, is a chest-high metal box fitted with an eyepiece and two speakers. On peering inside you see a view of yourself from about 20ft above. You see the other guests walking past, a couple of pigeons on th
âThey know the house they are bombing is full of childrenâ: NAZAâs directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence (opens the original)
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Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazansâ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed âsmall cogsâ to talk about the killing On a darkened rooftop in Tel Aviv, Israeli intelligence officers outline the details of their work. These men tell us how they helped develop an AI mapping tool that trawled for phone signals and recommended apartment buildings in Gaza to bomb. Indirectly, they admit, they are responsible for tho
The Fire Within You review â overheated family Christmas boils up too many stereotypes (opens the original)
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Venice film festival: Edoardo De Angelisâs claustrophobic drama brings a raging mother up from Naples for the holidays, with a capon. What could possibly not go wrong? If there were a Golden Lion award for the most Italian film in Venice competition it would go to Edoardo De Angelisâs squawking domestic spat of a picture which contains an imperious matriarch, a pained Catholic priest, an argumentative family, and food, so much food. Bowls are stirred and pans are brandished. Pots are seen ra
Union Town review â passionate exposé of US delivery workersâ employment conditions (opens the original)
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Venice film festival: Barbara Kopple returns with her third film investigating US workersâ rights â this time, undocumented âdeliveristasâ and the attempts to unionise Amazon staff Barbara Koppleâs documentary about app-based delivery workers is a stirring, defiant, battle-hardened affair, swinging between the fraught picket line and the still more hazardous New York City streets. Itâs a new film that feels old in the best sense of the word; a hoarse battle cry that summons the ghost
Company review â Casey Affleck entertains us with creepy campfire tales (opens the original)
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Venice film festival: Affleckâs third film as a director is a diverting gothic anthology about mysterious strangers, murder and â pointedly â wronged men Gather ye âround the glowing screen for a Casey Affleck campfire tale. It contains superstitions and murder and human oddities of all stripes. An old hermit in his shack. Something nasty in the woodshed. If you like the first tale, fill your boots, settle back, because here comes another and another; each sparked by the embers of its ne
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