DEKALOG 3
ON FILM FESTIVALS
Richard Porton (ed.)
In an increasingly ‘event-driven' cultural environment, film festivals are now regarded as indispensable. Yet are festivals such as Cannes, Sundance and Toronto being sabotaged by their own success? Do they truly serve the needs of cinephiles, as well as the larger public? These are among the questions explored in essays, memoirs and impassioned polemics by a distinguished array of critics and programmers. This timely anthology begins with the first appearance in English of André Bazin's 1955 essay ‘The Festival Viewed as a Religious Order'. After this backward glance, a cluster of essays examine the ongoing tension between market-oriented ‘business festivals' and festivals devoted to the needs of local audiences. A series of case studies assess the shifting fortunes of Asian film festivals (Hong Kong, Pusan), exemplary, cinephilic festivals (Vienna, Kino Otok, Trieste) and the fate of one catastrophically mismanaged festival (Bangkok). The volume concludes with an exclusive interview with Atom Egoyan, a filmmaker whose career has been nurtured by his participation in a variety of international film festivals.
Introduction: On Film Festivals
Richard Porton
The Festival Viewed as a Religious Order
André Bazin
First You Get the Power, Then You Get the Money: Two Models of Film Festivals
Mark Peranson
The Festival Galaxy
Quintin
The Sandwich Process: Simon Field Talks About Polemics and Poetry at Film Festivals
James Quandt
Cinephilia and Film Festivals
Robert Koehler
Here and Elsewhere (The View from Australia)
Adrian Martin
Asian Film Festivals and Their Diminishing Glitter Domes: An Appraisal of PIFF, SIFF and HKIFF
Stephen Teo
The Sad Case of the Bangkok Film Festival
Kong Rithdee
Status Quo and Beyond: The Viennale, A Success Story
Christoph Huber
Bagatelle for Kino Otek and i 1000 occhi
Olaf Moller
Some Festivals I've Known:A Few Rambling Recollections
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A Director on the Festival Circuit: An Interview with Atom Egoyan
Richard Porton
May 2009
164 pages
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Richard Porton is an Editor at Cineaste and has taught film studies at the College of Staten Island, Hunter College, Rutgers University and New York University. He is the author of Film and the Anarchist Imagination.