Cold Open · Essay · aug 31, 2023

Future Frames: A Conversation With Razan Hassan

The final episode in the Future Frames series brings two filmmakers into genuine conversation. Kiriko Mechanicus speaks with Razan Hassan — recent winner of Best Documentary at the Shortcutz Film Festival — about her teenage encounter with Bernardo Bertolucci, the depths of the Syrian new wave, and the relationship between pain and the urgent need to make something. Hassan's upcoming film On the Edge of Life I Saw a Film is already drawing attention. A conversation about where the images come from when the world gives you every reason to look away.

By Elliot Bloom

Film Journalist · Celebrating Cinema

For the final Future Frames episode, filmmaker Kiriko Mechanicus talks with fellow filmmaker and good friend Razan Hassan, an upcoming documentarist who has recently won the Best Documentary Film award at the Shortcutz Film Festival for her film ‘In Between Glass and Walls’.

In their tender conversation, Hassan speaks about her teenage love for director Bernardo Bertolucci, the depths of the Syrian new wave, the urge to create from pain, and her upcoming film ‘On The Edge Of Life I Saw A Film’.

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