Film Review
Doc Edge 2025 Craccum Coverage | A Quiet Love
A tourist's vision of the deaf community that will not challenge anyone's presupposed notions of disability.
Trevor Pronoso
been writing film-related pieces for craccum since 2023. check out craccum's letterboxd profile if you can. i've got more stuff posted there :)
NZIFF 2025 Film Review
NZIFF 2025 Craccum Coverage | DJ Ahmet
Sparks fly when TikTok meets Folk Tale in rural North Macedonia.
Film Review
Doc Edge 2025 Craccum Coverage | The Promise
Colonised, abandoned, and silenced, The Promise shatters the myth of progress and exposes the price of forgotten liberation struggles.
Film Review
Doc Edge 2025 Craccum Coverage | Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippine Sea
In seas claimed by giants, Filipino fishermen and soldiers fight not for glory, but survival—abandoned, resilient, and tragically expendable.
Film Review
Doc Edge 2025 Craccum Coverage | A Letter to David
Devotional art(washing) at its propagandistic nadir.
Film Review
Doc Edge 2025 Craccum Coverage | The Dating Game
Where love is a product, men become consumers—lonely, desperate, and trapped in a game rigged by capital, class, and performance.
Film Review
Doc Edge 2025 Craccum Coverage | Made in Ethiopia
Promises crumble, farmers vanish, factories stagnate—development devours dignity in this bleak farce of 'economic progress'.
Film Review
How to Train Your Dragon (2025): A close reading about live-action remakes
Or how this 2025 live-action remake embraces its CGI qualities as a valid form of digital myth-making.
Archive
Craccum Throwback | Vanquishing the Model Minority Myth
Five years ago—as Aotearoa was slowly recovering from its first nationwide COIVD-19 lockdown—Flora Xie reminded us of a more culturally pervasive virus inflicting itself among New Zealand's Asian population, the myth of the 'model minority'. [Craccum #14, 2020]
Craccum Throwback | FEES SUCK — STUDENTS
35 years ago, Craccum interviewed students about the increase in their tertiary fees. Has anything meaningfully changed since then? [Craccum #1, 1990]
Interview
Craccum Throwback | A cartography on filmmaking, criticism, and nostalgia
A constellatory reflection across multiple conversations with friends on the ethics of making, spectating, and remembering cinema.