Visions du Réel - Recap with Inge Coolsaet and Jordan Cronk

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[April 28, 2022] In this episode, I am joined by two film critics whose work I adore, Inge Coolsaet and Jordan Cronk - both of whom I had the great pleasure to meet at this year's swiss festival, Visions du Réel. 

Inge Coolsaet is a film critic based in Brussels. She writes for several international publications, including Point of View magazine, Filmmagie, Photogenie, and Cineuropa. She is co-editor-in-chief of the new Dutch-language, Belgian-based film quarterly Fantômas. This year, Inge was invited to Visions du Reel to serve as a Jury Member to award the FIPRESCI Prize for this year's best first feature film. 

Jordan Cronk is a film critic and founder of the Acropolis Cinema screening series in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Cinema Scope, Sight & Sound, and many others. He is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and was invited to Visions du Reel to host a discussion on casting for non-fiction films. 

Last week, we regrouped to exchange thoughts around some of the films that stayed with us, including: 

  • FORAGERS by Jumana Manna

  • ROJEK by Zaynê Akyol

  • L’ÎLOT by Tizian Büchi

  • INNER LINES by Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd

  • 143 RUE DU DÉSERT by Hassen Ferhani

  • VACATION IN VAL TREBBIA by Marco Bellocchio

  • MARX CAN WAIT by Marco Bellocchio

  • EUROPE by Philip Scheffner

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Christina Zachariades is a researcher and filmmaker based in Brooklyn with a background in consumer ethnography. She is the founder of Docs in Orbit and holds a Master of Arts from the University of Texas in Austin, and Master of Arts in Documentary Film Directing from DocNomads. 

Inge Coolsaet is a freelance film critic. Her writing has been published in Point of View magazine, Filmmagie, photogenie and Cineuropa for which she has covered several international documentary film festivals. She is co-editor-in-chief of the new Dutch-language, Belgian-based film quarterly Fantômas and also works at the argos centre for audiovisual arts in Brussels.

Jordan Cronk is a film critic and founder of the Acropolis Cinema screening series in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sight & Sound, and more. He is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.