By David Pountain Filmed over a six year period, Colin Rothbart’s inspiring big screen debut, Dressed as a Girl, is a humorous, affectionate tribute to the alternative drag scene of East London that acknowledges the […]
Author: David Pountain
By  David Pountain As one half of the New York production team Purple Milk, director Natalia Leite’s body of work is alive with a spirit of impulsiveness and self-determination. Whether she’s returning to nature in […]
By David Pountain Directed by Pepe Diokno At its heart, Pepe Diokno’s Above the Clouds is a single journey of thought expressed through a slow immersion into nature. Opening with the tragic death of the […]
By David Pountain Directed by Hans Christian Berger After Eden is a steely porn-based drama that subtly presents the industry of packaged sex appeal in terms of cold business strategy and consumerism, subduing lust, romance and the human form […]
By David Pountain Directed by Fiona Cunningham-Reid “This is her story – well…one version at least,†the voiceover narration coyly announces in the opening minutes of Croc A Dyke Dundee, the cheeky yet touching new […]
By David Pountain Directed by David Calek and Jakub ZahradnÃcek In its own, more accessible way, the reality of David Calek and Jakub ZahradnÃcek’s Pirating Pirates holds a playful slipperiness akin to the formally subversive works […]