Writing

Director Daniel Cockburn on his paired video essays, specially commissioned for this year’s festival

Scott King’s Treasure Island was met with critical praise and distributor dubiety on its festival run in 1999. It eventually found a home in a limited run, special edition DVD in 2001, from which this piece is excerpted.

Writer-director Rufus B Seder made his only film, Screamplay, for only $50,000, inspired by Slavko Vorkapić and with the help of underground film legend George Kuchar.

Ahead of our premiere of The Murder of Mr Devil’s brand-new restoration, we spoke to Jonáš Svatoš, Director of the Audiovisual Collections Section at Národní filmový archiv (Czech National Film Archive)

Inspired by our upcoming screening of The Murder of Mr Devil, Weird Weekend producer Megan Mitchell takes on the nylon-impossible task of tracing the cinematic history of tights.

When you read Divinity director Eddie Alcazar saying, “There is no script for this film,” for most armchair experts, that’s a big, flapping red flag. According to DC Studios CEO… Read more: All Outcomes Are Perfect: Divinity + No-Script Cinema

Divinity director Eddie Alcazar discusses storyboards, Soderbergh and star children

Ahead of our screening of Eddie Alcazar’s Divinity, we invited The Reptile House to live eternal

Frank Jaffe is the founder of Altered Innocence, the US film distributor specialising in “edgy and artistic foreign, queer, and coming-of-age cinema,” including WW-programmed films Sextool and She Is Conann.… Read more: Interview: Frank Jaffe (Altered Innocence)

Our latest commissioned writing, inspired by Bertrand Mandico’s She Is Conann, considers its viscous provocations. Beware spoilers…

Glasgow-based curator and film-maker Nat Lall muses on the immersive, tactile camp of Bertrand Mandico’s She Is Conann, ahead of our May screening

Ahead of our screening of She Is Conann, director Bertrand Mandico discusses cynocephalic demigods, can-can war and the height of barbarism

Adam Torel is the founder and one-man-band leader of Third Window Films, established in 2005 with the express intention of broadening the canon / taste / market for Asian cinema… Read more: Interview: Adam Torel (Third Window Films)

Tony Rayns, writer, critic and programmer, has long been a pre-eminent authority on and champion of Asian cinema. In 1986, he provided this incisive, informed critique of Sogo Ishii’s The Crazy Family for Monthly Film Bulletin, republished here by kind permission of Sight and Sound.

Ahead of our screening of The Crazy Family, Japanese & East Asian cinema specialist Hayley Scanlon discusses the upwardly mobile cinema of 1980s Japan’s bubble economy

In 1993, Quentin Tarantino marked the VHS release of his debut Reservoir Dogs with a trip to Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, California. Already the most famous ex-video store employee… Read more: Notes on Kim’s Video

In the third of three commissioned guest articles responding to our festival programme, The Reptile House looks at Jane Arden’s The Other Side of the Underneath (1972), which screens at Weird Weekend III on Saturday 29.10

Ahead of our screening of Triple Fisher: The Lethal Lolitas of Long Island, Logan Kenny evaluates its de/reconstruction of the true crime genre

In the second of three commissioned guest articles responding to our festival programme, The Reptile House considers Anti-Banality Union’s Earth II (2022), which has its UK Premiere at Weird Weekend III

Ahead of our screening of The Other Side of the Underneath, Matthew Gray reconsiders the place of Jane Arden and the Holocaust Theatre Group in Narratives of British Cinema.