Laura Staab
@laurastaab.bsky.social
publishing team @ MUBI // writing @ Another Gaze, FIDback, Notebook, RE:VOIR, Sight & Sound, etc. // laurastaab.xyz
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Laura Staab
@laurastaab.bsky.social
· Aug 4
www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.p... delighted to be back in FIDback ❤️ i wrote on Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky's colour/character studies, where being alone is red, round, and bouncy for Beatrix, and bluish for others 🔴 🔵
for the weekend crowd >> mubi.com/en/notebook/...
November 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
for the weekend crowd >> mubi.com/en/notebook/...
“This is what film festivals could be like, Petzold ventured: talking about cinema, talking about wood.”
on the 2025 Viennale, and how the festival and its films orientated themselves in relation to the world, for Notebook mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/woodcutters-from-the-viennale
on the 2025 Viennale, and how the festival and its films orientated themselves in relation to the world, for Notebook mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/woodcutters-from-the-viennale
Woodcutters: From the Viennale
Masao Adachi and James Benning model an introspective form of political filmmaking, cutting through the dull platitudes of festivalspeak.
mubi.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“This is what film festivals could be like, Petzold ventured: talking about cinema, talking about wood.”
on the 2025 Viennale, and how the festival and its films orientated themselves in relation to the world, for Notebook mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/woodcutters-from-the-viennale
on the 2025 Viennale, and how the festival and its films orientated themselves in relation to the world, for Notebook mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/woodcutters-from-the-viennale
u can try to outrun yrself ... and u will still find a Haribo Tangfastic stuck to yr shoe (crocodile, green)
October 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
u can try to outrun yrself ... and u will still find a Haribo Tangfastic stuck to yr shoe (crocodile, green)
u can try to outrun yrself ... and u will still find yrself reading Deleuze's Cinema 2 in Heathrow Terminal 2 💎 🤷
October 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
u can try to outrun yrself ... and u will still find yrself reading Deleuze's Cinema 2 in Heathrow Terminal 2 💎 🤷
⬇️ a must-read! lareviewofbooks.org/article/maus...
Some reflections on Ed Wood, auteurism, and the differences between yesterday’s bad cinema and today’s corporate slop, in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
Oliver Evans reviews "Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood, USA" by Will Sloan: "The worst film by Ed Wood is more interesting than the best film by Ron Howard, Sloan argues, which is admittedly a checkmate."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mausoleum-of-dreams/
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mausoleum-of-dreams/
October 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
⬇️ a must-read! lareviewofbooks.org/article/maus...
the ice tower 🩵🩵🩵
September 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
the ice tower 🩵🩵🩵
In Focus: Pia Frankenberg starts /tomorrow/ at the ICA ❕
⛸️ The Assault on 35mm and Ain't Nothin' Without You
🩶 followed by an in-person Q&A with Pia
www.ica.art/frankenberg-...
⛸️ The Assault on 35mm and Ain't Nothin' Without You
🩶 followed by an in-person Q&A with Pia
www.ica.art/frankenberg-...
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In Focus: Pia Frankenberg starts /tomorrow/ at the ICA ❕
⛸️ The Assault on 35mm and Ain't Nothin' Without You
🩶 followed by an in-person Q&A with Pia
www.ica.art/frankenberg-...
⛸️ The Assault on 35mm and Ain't Nothin' Without You
🩶 followed by an in-person Q&A with Pia
www.ica.art/frankenberg-...
you can now read @caitlinquinlan.bsky.social's lovely essay on Never Sleep Again, the importance of place to Pia Frankenberg, and a cinema of women walking ❤️ >> ica.art/media/11895.pdf
September 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
you can now read @caitlinquinlan.bsky.social's lovely essay on Never Sleep Again, the importance of place to Pia Frankenberg, and a cinema of women walking ❤️ >> ica.art/media/11895.pdf
💓 Tess Little on Lynn Hershman Leeson's artworks: "They visit the California Department of Motor Vehicles and submit application forms for driving licences. They meet suitors for dates in San Francisco’s Union Square, wearing blonde wigs and Revlon blush." www.anothergaze.com/woman-viewer...
September 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
💓 Tess Little on Lynn Hershman Leeson's artworks: "They visit the California Department of Motor Vehicles and submit application forms for driving licences. They meet suitors for dates in San Francisco’s Union Square, wearing blonde wigs and Revlon blush." www.anothergaze.com/woman-viewer...
come to the cinema for Schanelec's minimalist take on melodrama – and my little introduction about that, cinematic Arianes, and an image of happiness – this Saturday >> ica.art/my-sisters-g...
September 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
come to the cinema for Schanelec's minimalist take on melodrama – and my little introduction about that, cinematic Arianes, and an image of happiness – this Saturday >> ica.art/my-sisters-g...
❤️ ⬆️ ⬇️ @sophiasb.bsky.social on Amy Halpern's Falling Lessons, which 'evokes a range of way of seeing and being in the world. We see a baby bottom up and a woman bottom down. In a moment, everything can turn on its head.' 🌀 www.ica.art/media/11715....
September 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
❤️ ⬆️ ⬇️ @sophiasb.bsky.social on Amy Halpern's Falling Lessons, which 'evokes a range of way of seeing and being in the world. We see a baby bottom up and a woman bottom down. In a moment, everything can turn on its head.' 🌀 www.ica.art/media/11715....
you can catch me waxing lyrical about Angela Schanelec 🤍 🤍 🤍 before My Sister's Good Fortune and Dreamed Path at the ICA in London on Saturday 13 and Tuesday 30 September
ica.art/my-sisters-g...
ica.art/schanelec-th...
ica.art/my-sisters-g...
ica.art/schanelec-th...
September 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
you can catch me waxing lyrical about Angela Schanelec 🤍 🤍 🤍 before My Sister's Good Fortune and Dreamed Path at the ICA in London on Saturday 13 and Tuesday 30 September
ica.art/my-sisters-g...
ica.art/schanelec-th...
ica.art/my-sisters-g...
ica.art/schanelec-th...
serendipitous double bill at the ICA on 23 September: walk Marseille with Maren Eggert and Angela Schanelec, then come back to Cinema 1 in the evening to wander post-reunification Berlin with Pia Frankenberg, Lisa Kreuzer, and co🚶♀️💜
ica.art/marseille-on...
ica.art/frankenberg-...
ica.art/marseille-on...
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August 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
serendipitous double bill at the ICA on 23 September: walk Marseille with Maren Eggert and Angela Schanelec, then come back to Cinema 1 in the evening to wander post-reunification Berlin with Pia Frankenberg, Lisa Kreuzer, and co🚶♀️💜
ica.art/marseille-on...
ica.art/frankenberg-...
ica.art/marseille-on...
ica.art/frankenberg-...
thrilled to confirm Pia Frankenberg will now be joining, in person, for a post-screening Q&A on Friday 19 September! www.ica.art/frankenberg-...
for the ICA, i've programmed a comprehensive retrospective of Pia Frankenberg's charming, irreverent cinema. it plays Friday 19–Tuesday 23 September across three screenings, contextualised by new writing and an intro on opening night. more info and on sale here! >> www.ica.art/films/in-foc...
August 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
thrilled to confirm Pia Frankenberg will now be joining, in person, for a post-screening Q&A on Friday 19 September! www.ica.art/frankenberg-...
for the ICA, i've programmed a comprehensive retrospective of Pia Frankenberg's charming, irreverent cinema. it plays Friday 19–Tuesday 23 September across three screenings, contextualised by new writing and an intro on opening night. more info and on sale here! >> www.ica.art/films/in-foc...
August 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
for the ICA, i've programmed a comprehensive retrospective of Pia Frankenberg's charming, irreverent cinema. it plays Friday 19–Tuesday 23 September across three screenings, contextualised by new writing and an intro on opening night. more info and on sale here! >> www.ica.art/films/in-foc...
sacromonte cave museum 🍶🤍
August 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
sacromonte cave museum 🍶🤍
Reposted by Laura Staab
‘Whenever Thierry Frémaux is asked about the political position of the festival, he replies with a variation on: “Le cinéma, rien que le cinéma.”’
Daniella Shreir at Cannes: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniella Shreir at Cannes: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniella Shreir · Diary: What happens at Cannes
I arrived in Cannes with a terrible line from Sélection officielle ringing in my head: ‘To paraphrase Woody Allen...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
‘Whenever Thierry Frémaux is asked about the political position of the festival, he replies with a variation on: “Le cinéma, rien que le cinéma.”’
Daniella Shreir at Cannes: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniella Shreir at Cannes: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
filmmaker interviews from the @opencitydocs.bsky.social's critics workshop are now online! wonderful work ft. words from Maeve Brennan, Diana Allan, John Smith, Alexander Horwath, Saeed Taji Farouky, Armand Yervant Tufenkian, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Morgan Quaintance >> opencitylondon.com/notes/
August 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
filmmaker interviews from the @opencitydocs.bsky.social's critics workshop are now online! wonderful work ft. words from Maeve Brennan, Diana Allan, John Smith, Alexander Horwath, Saeed Taji Farouky, Armand Yervant Tufenkian, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Morgan Quaintance >> opencitylondon.com/notes/
www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.p... delighted to be back in FIDback ❤️ i wrote on Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky's colour/character studies, where being alone is red, round, and bouncy for Beatrix, and bluish for others 🔴 🔵
August 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.p... delighted to be back in FIDback ❤️ i wrote on Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky's colour/character studies, where being alone is red, round, and bouncy for Beatrix, and bluish for others 🔴 🔵
‘But I wanted to be the first / to tell you that the words / have turned and have transformed themselves: / they are long intelligent fish-faced snakes’
July 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
‘But I wanted to be the first / to tell you that the words / have turned and have transformed themselves: / they are long intelligent fish-faced snakes’
‘Does a thick meaty porridge / of language actually nourish?’
June 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
‘Does a thick meaty porridge / of language actually nourish?’
Angela Winkler and Hanna Schygulla in Margarethe von Trotta's SHEER MADNESS 🖤
June 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Angela Winkler and Hanna Schygulla in Margarethe von Trotta's SHEER MADNESS 🖤
applications for the Another Gaze x @opencitydocs.bsky.social Critics Workshop are open only until 9PM (UK time) on Monday: opencitylondon.com/news/open-ci... don't miss that deadline! 🕘 Dani and i want to read yr apps!
applications are now open for the Open City x Another Gaze Critics Workshop! Dani and i will spend five days talking film and criticism with ten participants and invited speakers, in the context of one of our most exciting festivals... more info here >> opencitylondon.com/news/open-ci...
March 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
applications for the Another Gaze x @opencitydocs.bsky.social Critics Workshop are open only until 9PM (UK time) on Monday: opencitylondon.com/news/open-ci... don't miss that deadline! 🕘 Dani and i want to read yr apps!
best film of last year – don't miss it
We are excited to announce the UK premiere of exergue – on documenta 14, as a prologue to Open City Documentary Festival 2025.
Dimitris Athiridis’ observational study of documenta 14 will screen at the ICA over 3 days from 18-20 April.
🎟️ are now on sale!
opencitylondon.com/year_round/p...
Dimitris Athiridis’ observational study of documenta 14 will screen at the ICA over 3 days from 18-20 April.
🎟️ are now on sale!
opencitylondon.com/year_round/p...
Prologue: exergue - on documenta 14 - Open City Documentary Festival
We are excited to announce the UK premiere of exergue – on documenta 14, screening as a prologue to Open City Documentary Festival 2025. exergue – on documenta Dimitris Athiridis | 2024 | Greece | 8...
opencitylondon.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
best film of last year – don't miss it
Reposted by Laura Staab
applications are open for the locarno critics academy. doing this and meeting everyone involved in 2017 gave me the confidence to write and work in and around film. and now @celizotte.bsky.social is on board too, so it’s even better now.
www.locarnofestival.ch/about/factor...
www.locarnofestival.ch/about/factor...
Locarno Film Festival · Critics Academy
The Locarno Critics Academy is an extensive workshop in film criticism that gives young writers a crucial entry point into the world of film festivals. During...
www.locarnofestival.ch
March 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
applications are open for the locarno critics academy. doing this and meeting everyone involved in 2017 gave me the confidence to write and work in and around film. and now @celizotte.bsky.social is on board too, so it’s even better now.
www.locarnofestival.ch/about/factor...
www.locarnofestival.ch/about/factor...