MNEMORPHRENIA – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

For a low-budget debut feature, Mnemophrenia punches well above its weight; like some of the best genre films, manages to do hell of a lot with very little. There are clearly large philosophical questions under the microscope here about human evolution, empathy, technology and ethics, and it and prompts reflection about our relationship to visual culture and the moving image in particular.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Kim Voynar on Virtual Reality Cinema

Like the best movies, Kim Voynar’s cinema career has come with plenty of plot twistS. For a decade, Voynar worked as a film critic, reviewing movies for Cinematical, Movie City News, Indiewire and Variety, and in 2011, she ventured into filmmaking. She wrote, produced and directed the short film “Bunker” and then working for three years for Wizards of the Coast founder Peter Adkison, helping him build his film production company and producing and directing many projects for it.

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