ABBY SUN

SELECT WRITING

“Film Comment Recommends: Rock Bottom Riser,” Film Comment Letter, Mar. 3 2022
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-comment-recommends-rock-bottom-riser/

“Sundance 2022 Critic’s Notebook: I Didn’t See You There, Jihad Rehab,” Filmmaker Magazine online, Jan. 30, 2022
https://filmmakermagazine.com/113253-sundance-2022-critics-notebook-i-didnt-see-you-there-jihad-rehab/

“Sundance 2022 Critic’s Notebook: Fire of Love, Every Day in Kaimukī, and Shorts,” Filmmaker Magazine online, Jan. 24, 2022
https://filmmakermagazine.com/113205-sundance-2022-reviews-fire-of-love-every-day-in-kaimuki/

“Sundance 2022 Critic’s Notebook: Mija, Mars One, Emergency,” Filmmaker Magazine online, Jan. 22, 2022
https://filmmakermagazine.com/113113-sundance-2022-reviews-mija-mars-one-emergency/

"'Made in Japan: Yamagata 1989-2021" A streaming extension of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival," Screen Slate, Jan. 18, 2022
http://www.screenslate.com/articles/made-japan-yamagata-1989-2021-streaming-extension-yamagata-international-documentary-film 

“Festivals: Physical is Virtual <> Virtual is Physical,” Notebook (MUBI), Issue 0, Nov. 2021

"Present Continuous: An Interview with Wang Qiong," SEEN (BlackStar Projects), Issue 3, Nov. 2021
https://www.blackstarfest.org/seen/read/issue003/present-continuous/

"Giving Time: Amos Vogel and the Legacy of Cinema 16," Film Comment Letter, Nov. 11, 2021
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/giving-time-amos-vogel-and-the-legacy-of-cinema-16-sfmoma-art-in-cinema-whitney-museum-abby-sun/

"'Chipping Away at the Earth': A conversation with curator, film scholar and place-maker Greg de Cuir Jr. on desktop cinema aesthetics, handmade digital exhibitions and the metaverse now," Immerse, Apr. 1, 2021
https://immerse.news/chipping-away-at-the-earth-534b6f9dfd22 

"Criticism," Berlin Critics' Week Magazine, Mar. 1, 2021
http://wochederkritik.de/en_US/magazine/criticism-abby-sun/

"Sundance 2021 Critic’s Notebook (Vadim Rizov and Abby Sun): Cusp and Close," Filmmaker online, Feb. 4, 2021 
https://filmmakermagazine.com/111214-sundance-2021-critics-notebook-vadim-rizov-and-abby-sun-cusp-and-close/

"Sundance 2021 Critic’s Notebook 1 (Abby Sun): CODA, Summer of Soul (…Or, How the Revolution Could Not be Televised)," Filmmaker online, Jan. 30, 2021
https://filmmakermagazine.com/111063-sundance-2020-critics-notebook-1-abby-sun-coda-summer-of-soul-or-how-the-revolution-could-not-be-televised/

"How Forces Govern Lives: Alexander Nanau Discusses 'Collective,'" interview, MUBI Notebook, Mar. 10, 2020 
https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/how-forces-govern-lives-alexander-nanau-discusses-collective

"Messy, Energetic, Intense: A Roundtable Conversation among New York's Asian American Experimental Filmmakers of the Eighties with Roddy Bogawa, Daryl Chin, Shu Lea Cheang, and Rea Tajiri," with Vince Schleitwiler and Rea Tajiri, Film Quarterly, Spring 2020 
https://fq.ucpress.edu/content/73/3/66

"Art House Convergence 2020: Transparency and Crisis," Filmmaker online, Jan. 24, 2020 
https://filmmakermagazine.com/109005-art-house-convergence-2020-transparency-and-crisis/

"Jonathan Olshefski's Fire for Quest," interview, ITVS blog, Jan. 23, 2020 
https://itvs.org/blog/jon-olshefski-s-fire-for-quest

"Self Reflection in Theater Two," essay, Filmmaker, Winter 2020
https://filmmakermagazine.com/108643-self-reflection-in-theater-two/

"Withdrawing To and Withdrawing From," essay for the 2019 Flaherty Seminar catalog, Nov. 2019
https://theflaherty.org/store-1/2019-seminar-catalogue

"When Documentaries Muddle the Truth Instead of Pursuing It," feature on post-film/pre-credits text, Hyperallergic, Sep. 18, 2019
https://hyperallergic.com/516192/when-documentaries-muddle-the-truth-instead-of-pursuing-it/

Genesis (Philippe Lesage) review, Film Comment, Sep./Oct. 2019
https://www.filmcomment.com/article/the-big-screen-genesis/

"Focus: Yeh Freedom Life, A Life Fully Open To Love," Open City Documentary Festival, Aug. 22, 2019
https://opencitylondon.com/news/open-city-documentary-festival-2019-focus-yeh-freedom-life-a-life-fully-open-to-love/

Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhangke) review, Film Comment, Mar./Apr. 2019
https://www.filmcomment.com/article/the-big-screen-ash-is-purest-white/

“Eat Me,” feature on Caniba, Film Comment, Sep./Oct.2018
https://www.filmcomment.com/article/eat-me/

“Festivals: Taiwan,” Film Comment online, Jun. 19, 2018
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/festivals-taiwan/

“Emotional Truth: An Interview with Dylan Glynn,” Nat. Brut, Fall 2017
https://www.natbrut.com/dylan-glynn

EDITED BY

Using Format