This is my sophomore short film.

I wanted to detail a piece of now-forgotten German cinema, Uncle Krüger, a sweeping epic about the Boer War that depicts in its finale a British concentration camp, shot while an actual Nazi concentration camp operated only 30-some kilometers from the set.

I tried to examine the depths of its cynicism and how that cynicism has echoed after the fall of the Third Reich, as present-day fascist regimes too see not only victimhood in the crimes of the past, but also an example of what to inflict on others.

The film can be found here: vimeo.com/1033352755

I can't rate this objectively, as I directed it. This is my first short film.

I was inspired by Marxist filmmaker Masao Adachi's landscape theory and its examination of how landscapes express the dominant political power, and I sought to apply it to the power of romantic memory, melancholy, and nostalgia. I wanted to craft a piece of slow cinema about a universal experience and I hope I succeeded.

The film can be found here: vimeo.com/684727715

I would watch more pornography if it was like this

Costa-Gavras gets an actor who sounds exactly like Yanis Varoufakis, down to every bit of his intonation, as well as someone who feels exactly as slimy as the real George Osborne, which makes it all the more jarring when Emmanuel Macron shows up and it's one of the worst actors you've ever seen.

Certainly representative of the maddening circular meetings of Varoufakis' career in Greek government but that does not make wholly compelling filmmaking. There's something better-paced in here with the occasional narration from Yanis' original book but Costa-Gavras doesn't commit to this, or really much of a focus on anything stylistic.

more like enter my ass