“Dense, elliptical, tender, and a bit disturbing, [How Strong The Children] is an intelligent and compelling work.”
- Amy Taubin, Village Voice, November 23, 1999
“ [If Spring, Then Hope, And Also Winter] is so haunting—I mean it’s really like the voices of the people involved ...[continue] throughout the entire piece—[long] after the voices are gone.” (more...)
- Peter Rinaldi, Short Fuse, Channel 57, NYC, July 31, 1998
“Queen of the Mist is nearly as eccentric as its subject—a 63-year-old woman who was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.”
- Amy Taubin, Village Voice,, March 11, 1997
“These images seem to have a heartbeat: a collective unconscious.” (more...)
- Sharon Greytak, in Signs of Fiction, for Artists Space, 1989
“Striking and imaginative...Metcalfe’s...use of sound and image is original and clever, displaying an instinctive understanding and control of the film medium.”
- Raymond Brazil, 2SER Radio, Australia, 1985