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Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell's Ms Slavic 7, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from June 4 - July 4, 2020 in Mubi's The New Auteurs series.Above: The above image and those throughout this article are a selection of pages from the notebook Deragh Campbell kept as the character Audrey Benac, toward the creation of the monologues in Ms Slavic 7.Considering Sharon Lockhart’s collaboration with Noa Eshkol, in which she retranslates the deceased artist’s elaborate system of choreographic notation into movement, Daniela Zyman negates the perception of a filmed subject as a singular identity and defines it instead as a figure of two, an encounter between the artist and the protagonist. She applies this to Lockhart’s greater body of work, describing Lockhart’s particular ability to allow the coexistence of the subject’s inherent right to self-representation and the artist’s formal impositions,...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSSteve McQueen on the set of Small Axe.The Cannes 2020 official selection is now announced. Though the festival has been cancelled, the selected titles will receive additional support from the festival when cinemas re-open. Steve McQueen, who has two films (part of his upcoming Small Axe series) selected by Cannes this year, dedicated the films to "George Floyd and all the other black people that have been murdered, seen or unseen, because of who they are, in the U.S., U.K. and elsewhere." Both the Telluride Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival have also announced that festivities will proceed as planned. Recommended VIEWINGIn support of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests worldwide, Vanity Fair's K. Austin Collins has provided the first part of a survey centering "100 years of Black defiance at the movie.

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If the title Ms Slavic 7 fails to ring a bell, its abstractness conveys the industrious intellectual labor demanded by this witty one-hour Canadian film, one of the nicer surprises in this year’s Berlin Forum. As it turns out, the title is a reference code in Harvard’s Houghton Library, which gives Audrey, the protag, access to letters between an ancestor of hers and the Polish poet with whom she corresponded in the 1950s and '60s.

Letters are read, but it’s not so much 84 Charing Cross Road as the portrait of a young woman’s determination to ...

If the title Ms Slavic 7 fails to ring a bell, its abstractness conveys the industrious intellectual labor demanded by this witty one-hour Canadian film, one of the nicer surprises in this year’s Berlin Forum. As it turns out, the title is a reference code in Harvard’s Houghton Library, which gives Audrey, the protag, access to letters between an ancestor of hers and the Polish poet with whom she corresponded in the 1950s and '60s.

Letters are read, but it’s not so much 84 Charing Cross Road as the portrait of a young woman’s determination to ...