Writing
Writing
I have been writing about film and interviewing filmmakers since 2017, with a focus on film materiality, analogue film practice, archives, non-fiction and documentary filmmaking. If you would like to contact me with something you feel I’d be interested in covering, please reach out at drewnorthrop [at] gmail [dot] com
People Are Who They Are: John Wilson on the End of “How To” - MUBI Notebook, June 2024
“Reject the Labels”: Berwick’s Peter Taylor Discusses the Festival’s Recent Evolution - IDA Documentary Magazine, May 2024
Miko Revereza by Andrew Northrop - “Nowhere Near” Interview - BOMB Magazine, November 2023
A Dedicated Space: Open City Documentary Festival 2023 - IDA Documentary Magazine, September 2023
Hannah Takes the Stairs: looking back at Greta Gerwig’s mumblecore breakthrough - Sight & Sound, June 2023
Death Race Calcutta: Ruchir Joshi’s Essay Films - MUBI Notebook, May 2023
The Philippines’ Turbulent Past Captured in Film - Hyperallergic, November 2022
Budapest Classics Film Marathon - Senses of Cinema, October 2022
We Learn by Making: A Conversation with Alexandra Cuesta - Senses of Cinema, October 2022
“Anyox” by Jessica Johnson and Ryan Ermacora - Open City Documentary Festival, August 2022
The vanishing art of celluloid film projection endures in Locarno - Swissinfo, August 2022
“Skazka” by Alexander Sokurov - Locarno Daily, August 2022
“It is Night in America”: Brazilian Nights From an Animal’s Point of View - Hyperallergic, August 2022
‘Arnold Is a Model Student’: Sorayos Prapapan’s Debut, Inspired in Part by Thailand’s Bad Student Movement - with Srikanth Srinivasan - Variety, August 2022
The World of Music Video Is Finally Adopting Restoration Efforts - Hyperallergic, May 2022
“Sol de Campinas” - Jessica Sarah Rinland - Millenium Film Journal Issue 74, Fall 2021
Bite Size Methodologies—The 2nd Small File Media Festival - MUBI Notebook, September 2021
Sunken Film: Bill Morrison Talks “The Village Detective: a song cycle” - Senses of Cinema, July 2021
Making Visible: The 2021 Cinéma du Réel - Senses of Cinema, May 2021
Archival Engagements: A review of films showing at Essay Film Festival 2021 - MAP Magazine, March 2021
“Home, far away from Home”: Truong Minh Quý on “The Tree House” - Senses of Cinema, April 2020
A History of the Film Industry’s Fascination With Color - Hyperallergic, April 2020
Tusk: Jessica Sarah Rinland on “Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another” - Filmmaker Magazine, March 2020
An unreleased George A Romero film addresses the effects of ageism - Little White Lies, February 2020
Archive and Memory at IFFR 2020 - Kinoscope, February 2020
There’s a Universe in These Little Details: An Interview with Patricio Guzmán - MUBI Notebook, February 2020
Life and Death in the USSR: Sergei Loznitsa’s “State Funeral” - Kinoscope, January 2020
What Time is Made Of: A Discussion with Diana Vidrascu - MUBI Notebook, January 2020
50 Years Later, Watching Jimi Hendrix Onstage (On Film) - Hyperallergic, January 2020
IDFA 2019 - Honoring the Art of the Archival Film - Hyperallergic, December 2019
IDFA 2019 - Seeing How Experimental Documentary Film Can Get - Hyperallergic, December 2019
IFA 2019 - Rethinking Villains in Documentary Film - Hyperallergic, December 2019
A Projection Over the Forest: An Interview with Ian Soroka - Kinoscope, November 2019
Criterion’s collection of Showa-era Godzilla films is a cinematic feast - Little White Lies, November 2019
Reimagining an Elephant: Discussing “Cemetery” with Carlos Casas - MUBI Notebook, October 2019
Elevating the Representation of Animals Onscreen - Carlos Casas’s “Cemetery” - Hyperallergic, September 2019
Director Sergei Loznitsa on digging through Soviet archives and the challenge of dissecting the past - Calvert Journal, September 2019
Focus: “Treasure Island” - Variations on a Waterpark - Open City Docs, August 2019
Something You’re Not Supposed to Look At: Christopher Harris Interviewed by Andrew Northrop - BOMB Magazine, August 2019
Long Awkward Pause: Andrew Bujalski Talks “Mutual Appreciation” - MUBI Notebook, July 2019
How we brought Apollo 11 from NASA’s archive to the big screen - Little White Lies, June 2019
The 5th Nitrate Picture Show - MUBI Notebook, June 2019
Focus: Jürgen Böttcher’s The Wall: The Nature of The Wall - Open City Docs, May 2019
To Take a Measurement: Jem Cohen and Fugazi’s “Instrument” - Kinoscope, March 2019
Close-Up on Leandro Listori’s “La película infinita” - MUBI Notebook, January 2019
Filming the Invisible: An Introduction to Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd - MUBI Notebook, January 2019
Documenting the Soul: On Three Films by Jürgen Böttcher - Kinoscope, January 2019
Notebook’s 11th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2018 - MUBI Notebook, December 2018
The Spaces That Inhabit Us: Shireen Seno on “Nervous Translation” - Kinoscope, December 2018
Missing Films and Videotaping Syndicates: Sandi Tan Discusses “Shirkers” - MUBI Notebook, October 2018
Open City Documentary Festival 2018 - Focus: Film as Form - Open City Docs, August 2018
Landscape Plus: An Interview with Laida Lertxundi - MUBI Notebook, June 2018
A Strange Autumn: João Moreira Salles Discusses “In the Intense Now” - MUBI Notebook, August 2018
Personal Impressions from the 2018 Essay Film Festival - Essay Film Festival, April 2018
Focus: Essay Film Festival 2018 — ★: Johann Lurf’s Cinema of Attractions - Open City Docs, February 2018
Haptically Revisiting Agnès Varda’s Jacquot de Nantes - Senses of Cinema, December 2017
Poetic Encounters: A Discussion with Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd - MUBI Notebook, September 2017