Unconformity

Unconformity (2022)

Writer/director Jonathan DiMaio’s feature debut Unconformity opens with a dizzying montage: colourful crystalline structures rotating under a young woman’s microscope and looking in their iridescent beauty like a stained-glass window; the same woman skilfully scaling a similarly colourful climbing wall; and the woman in goggles as she saws through a stone sample. Beyond their mere…

Don't Look Back

Don’t Look Back (2020)

“Police say the man was a Good Samaritan, stabbed while trying to stop a mugging. Surveillance video shows the man bleeding to death on a sidewalk for an hour as 25 people pass by.” We hear a news reporter saying these words, as footage of the scene is shown on screen, at the beginning of…

Ranger

The Ranger (2018)

The Ranger first published by SciFiNow ‘First-time feature director’ can be a loaded term. It often implies inexperience – yet Jenn Wexler has not only written, directed and produced two short films (Slumber Party, 2012 and Halloween Bash, 2013), but also produced several stylistically and thematically arresting indie titles by other directors, like Mickey Keating’s Darling…