Laura Staab
@laurastaab.bsky.social
publishing team @ MUBI // writing @ Another Gaze, FIDback, Notebook, RE:VOIR, Sight & Sound, etc. // laurastaab.xyz
for the weekend crowd >> mubi.com/en/notebook/...
November 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
for the weekend crowd >> mubi.com/en/notebook/...
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
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⛸️ 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
"In late 1973, she rented two rooms at the Hotel Dante, a seedy joint in North Beach, San Francisco, with Eleanor Coppola ... In their respective rooms, each installed their own work: Hershman Leeson in room 47, Coppola in room 43."
September 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"In late 1973, she rented two rooms at the Hotel Dante, a seedy joint in North Beach, San Francisco, with Eleanor Coppola ... In their respective rooms, each installed their own work: Hershman Leeson in room 47, Coppola in room 43."
September 2, 2025 at 8:21 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
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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
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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🚶♀️💜
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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🚶♀️💜
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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 🍶🤍
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 🔴 🔵
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 🖤
wrote about Esther Kinsky's Seeing Further in this month's issue of Sight & Sound – an elegy for modernity's cinema-going publics in which the trusty pickle does a lot of poetic work 🥒 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
March 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
wrote about Esther Kinsky's Seeing Further in this month's issue of Sight & Sound – an elegy for modernity's cinema-going publics in which the trusty pickle does a lot of poetic work 🥒 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Joan Snyder’s ‘Landscape’ (1970) – it ‘will and will not decide what world it shows’ 🩷
January 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Joan Snyder’s ‘Landscape’ (1970) – it ‘will and will not decide what world it shows’ 🩷
thanks to @sophiasb.bsky.social 💛 x Open City Documentary Festival and the Barbican for programming two radiant films among the gloom that was this year ... here is my 2024 fantasy double bill mubi.com/en/notebook/...
December 20, 2024 at 10:28 AM
thanks to @sophiasb.bsky.social 💛 x Open City Documentary Festival and the Barbican for programming two radiant films among the gloom that was this year ... here is my 2024 fantasy double bill mubi.com/en/notebook/...
2024 favourites ~
December 13, 2024 at 9:30 AM
2024 favourites ~
👻🍌✨ @sightsoundmag.bsky.social sent me back to the Tate Modern in October to review ‘Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit’ – a little text on it and his lumpy subjectivity is in the new issue www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
December 8, 2024 at 9:10 AM
👻🍌✨ @sightsoundmag.bsky.social sent me back to the Tate Modern in October to review ‘Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit’ – a little text on it and his lumpy subjectivity is in the new issue www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
forgotten what it is like to be this warm and yellowy 😞
November 29, 2024 at 8:08 AM
forgotten what it is like to be this warm and yellowy 😞
"Berlin School" women just get it... what later gets framed excitedly or marketed cynically as defiant rebellion in feminism's fourth wave is here sunken into disaffection – not the anti- but instead the a-, a negation that renders flat, a depressive position from which to think the new
November 27, 2024 at 12:30 PM
"Berlin School" women just get it... what later gets framed excitedly or marketed cynically as defiant rebellion in feminism's fourth wave is here sunken into disaffection – not the anti- but instead the a-, a negation that renders flat, a depressive position from which to think the new
so taken with Madonnas, Maria Speth's second feature and Sandra Hüller's as well ... an abrupt, flinty, real performance, resolutely neutral towards societal expectations
November 27, 2024 at 11:50 AM
so taken with Madonnas, Maria Speth's second feature and Sandra Hüller's as well ... an abrupt, flinty, real performance, resolutely neutral towards societal expectations
'No filmmaker who borrows affectionately from a poem with the title “Sorrow Is Not My Name” could be a doomscroller, after all.' 🪴 i wrote about Bas Devos's Here, and spoke with him about hope and poetry for Notebook: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
February 9, 2024 at 11:06 AM
'No filmmaker who borrows affectionately from a poem with the title “Sorrow Is Not My Name” could be a doomscroller, after all.' 🪴 i wrote about Bas Devos's Here, and spoke with him about hope and poetry for Notebook: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
i wasn't subscribed to tinyletter.com/ruizdiaries when i wrote this – but what a gift in retrospect! here is Raúl Ruiz while working on the film in August 2003:
October 12, 2023 at 9:53 AM
i wasn't subscribed to tinyletter.com/ruizdiaries when i wrote this – but what a gift in retrospect! here is Raúl Ruiz while working on the film in August 2003:
for the Viennale, i wrote about two films in which worldly perspective collapses: Denis Côté's Mademoiselle Kenopsia and Raúl Ruiz's Klimt: www.viennale.at/en/blog/empt...
October 12, 2023 at 9:52 AM
for the Viennale, i wrote about two films in which worldly perspective collapses: Denis Côté's Mademoiselle Kenopsia and Raúl Ruiz's Klimt: www.viennale.at/en/blog/empt...