Luigi Vitali

4 days ago | dustmagazine.com | Luigi Vitali

On an audaciously sunny April afternoon in Rome, the light cuts sharply through the vast windows of the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana—known to most as the Square Colosseum—casting long, dramatic shadows across its grand interior. Or at least, that’s how it looks over Zoom, where Silvia Venturini Fendi appears on screen from the heart of the capital.

1 month ago | dustmagazine.com | Luigi Vitali

Dea Kulumbegashvili is a Georgian filmmaker of Ossetian descent. After studying Media at The New School and Film Directing at Columbia University, she made history with her debut short, Invisible Spaces (2014), the first independent Georgian film to compete at Cannes. Her follow-up short, Léthé (2016), premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.

Mar 13, 2025 | dustmagazine.com | Paul Kircher |Luigi Vitali

Drømmer, the latest feature by Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud, has won the Golden Bear at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. Third film in a trilogy (Sex, Love, Dreams), Drømmer is a brilliant, formally inventive work that reshapes cinematic grammar into something fresh, immersive, and incredibly smart. At its core is Johanne, a 17-year-old girl overwhelmed by an intense desire for her female teacher.

Mar 13, 2025 | dustmagazine.com | Paul Kircher |Luigi Vitali

One of the new geniuses of European cinema, fresh off the breakout success of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, instead of scaling up—as any director in his position might—strips everything down, shooting in just 10 days on an iPhone 15, with no lights, no grips, no budget.

Mar 4, 2025 | dustmagazine.com | Luigi Vitali

About World-Building and Black Quantum FuturismEdward Buchanan in conversation with Moor MotherCamae Ayewa, known as Moor Mother, is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, musician, and activist from Philadelphia whose work redefines creativity and its impact on Black communities. As co-founder of Black Quantum Futurism (BQF) with Rasheedah Phillips, Moor Mother explores the concept of time, drawing on a fusion of quantum physics, Afro-diasporic traditions, and practical community action.