Czechoslovak filmmakers were sensitive to surrealist cinematography, but the avant-garde blossomed decades later. Among the most striking feature films with a surrealist modus are …
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On December 5th, the Gallery Synthesis opened the photo exhibition Construction Troops by Garo …
In Tim Burton’s extraordinary world, the fantastic, the humorous, and the beautiful are inseparable from horror, or rather a celebration of unusual life forms. …
Conversation with Tonislav Hristov – director of the film The Good Driver …
Applied Psychology at the University of Toronto, reading a novel can lead to a change in the personality of readers, albeit to a small …
Jan Sverak is the big star of modern Czech cinema. His thesis from the famous Prague Film University FAMU – the short film ‘Oil …
Martin Campbell is a film and television director. He became known for the British miniseries Edge of Darkness (1985), for which he won the …
The Animation Primer project is a joint initiative of the Association of Bulgarian Animation Producers, the Institute of Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy …
Fearful sea monsters with numerous tentacles, heroic pirate raids, wandering the world’s oceans, strange deep-sea inhabitants, otherworldly songs of mysterious sirens, geographical discoveries on …
Contemporary Bulgarian documentary cinema, viewed from a few different perspectives, is at high standards. It is both stable in terms of the amount of …
Gripping. Colourful. Many-sided. Surprising. Charming. Funny. Naïve. Frightening. Mysterious. Breath-stopping. Magical. Spectacular. Beautiful. Dangerous. Kind. Unexpected. Swirly. Shining. Lavish. Stopping the heart beating. Different. …
On 1 March, the Synthesis gallery and the Bulgarian National Film Archive launched an exhibit of photographic portraits of Bulgarian actors, taken during the …
The full-length feature film Cat in the Wall (Bulgaria/UK/France) by Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova (production: Actvist 38) surprisingly received the national Golden Rose Debut …
’Europudding’ is a derisive term of the mid-1990s describing well-funded, but commonplace European film …
My friend Zlatin Radev told me once how uneasy he felt while watching a theatrical performance for fears of a gaffe or of a …
The monograph Short-form Films: Advantages and Challenges. Models and Practices of Bulgarian Short Films …
A reservation to begin with: I think that there is no harm to art in a well-calculated dose of bad taste. A recent good …
Moving Stills at Synthesis Gallery (12 March–8 April) is a mixed event combining a photo exhibition and screenings of documentaries by curator of photography …
The documentary Walking on Water about The Floating Piers installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude was selected to open Sofia Iinternational Film Festival 2019. This …
Without fuss or media coverage, a photo exhibition opened before the central entry to the National Palace of Culture, Sofia on 4 October 2018 …