Artistic Differences

Artistic Differences returns with a conversation featuring filmmaker Dane Komljen, whose latest film The Garden Cadences continues his poetic exploration of collectivity, intimacy, and impermanence. Hosts Cíntia Gil and Christopher Allen reflect with Komljen on a work that unfolds between reality and reverie — an evocation of a Berlin garden where friendship, love, and artistic labor entwine again...

In this month’s episode of Artistic Differences, hosts Cíntia Gil and Christopher Allen speak with Argentine filmmaker Maria Aparicio about her stunning third feature, Undefined Things, winner of the Cinema Tropical Award for Best Latin American Film. A delicate meditation on cinema, memory, and mourning, the film follows Eva, a film editor in Córdoba. Eva is working with her assistant on a docume...

Artistic Differences returns with an introspective and resonant conversation featuring filmmaker Masha Chernaya focusing on her daring debut feature, The Shards , which was the winner of the Doclisboa Film Festival's International Competition and the recipient of the Doc Alliance Award for Best Feature Film .  This prestigious award was just announced at this year’s Cannes Film Festival where...

Artistic Differences returns with an atmospheric conversation with filmmaker Tyler Taormina ( Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Ham on Rye )! Hosts Cíntia Gil and Christopher Allen sit down with Taormina to discuss his haunting second feature, Happer’s Comet , a film that explores the emotional architecture of suburbia and the strange nocturnal magic of the eventide hours. The discussion weaves thr...

Artistic Differences   returns with a revelatory conversation with filmmaker Trương Minh Quý , whose work reshapes our understanding of memory, history, and exile. In this latest episode, our hosts Cintia Gil and Christopher Allen sit down with Quý to explore his radical approach to storytelling—one that collapses time, unsettles the distinction between reality and imagination, and challenges who...

In our third episode, Artistic Differences has invited Dora García to speak about her formidable film Si Pudiera Desear Algo (If I Could Wish for Something) which traces the contemporary resonances of the rich feminist legacy of Alexandra Kollontai, a prominent Marxist theorist, Soviet revolutionary, radical feminist, and sex activist that Garcia calls,“the holy patron of dissident sexuality”. Gar...

ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES invites legendary Chilean filmmaker Ignacio Agüero to engage in questions and provocations inspired by our cineclub and articulated by programmer Cintia Gil and UnionDocs Founder, Christopher Allen. In this episode, learn more about Agüero’s unflinching and empathetic mode of filmmaking, one that never shies from strong political stakes. Tune in as we consider his latest featu...

In our second episode, Artistic Differences has invited Declan Clarke to speak about his radically minimalistic and melancholic form of filmmaking that opens a maximal poetic potential for representing histories economic, political, ideological, affective and material.  Our hosts, Cíntia Gil (Independent Programmer) and Christopher Allen (UnionDocs Founder), together with those who joined our mont...