The Substance had its UK première at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024, 20 Aug The Substance opens with a diptych of prologues, showing, in reverse order, a terminal condition and its tentative, experimental cure. The first image is a top-down shot of a chicken’s egg out of its shell on a pale blue surface. Injected…
Polaris screened at the Imagine Film Festival 2022 “Frozen world, year 2144,” reads text that opens Kirsten Carthew’s Polaris. “Few survived the freezing. A child raised by a bear brings hope from the stars.” Apart from another brief caption (“10 years earlier”) that appears shortly afterwards leading into a flashback told, storybook-style, in hand-drawn pictures,…