Film
How Merce Cunningham Worked with Filmmakers to Make the Camera Dance
A series of films installed on the High Line make the camera an intimate actor in experimental dance.
Anthony Hawley
Film
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Surreal Films Are Terribly Awkward, Tender, and Triumphant
Five films that inspired Lanthimos’s Oscar-nominated The Favourite portray humans who seem to be putting on their bodies and native tongues for the very first time.
Test 2018 posts
When Little Doughy Men Play Victim
I am hopelessly optimistic, but it takes work.
Test 2018 posts
Monstrous Mutations (Part 2): From the Fascist State to Radical Hospitality
It wasn’t “just a jacket.”
Test 2018 posts
Monstrous Mutations (Part 1): From Spam Scams to Tweets
With their awkward syntax and frequent misspellings, the president’s tweets aren’t too far from the language of spam.
Art
The Great Victim
The oppressor assumes the role of the oppressed.
Art
Nothing Is As It Was
I live in a state in the heart of the heart of the country.
Art
Future Dread
Twitter, in the hands of Trump and the Republicans, is a way of postulating speculative fictions, — the worries and woes of possible future perfects.
Art
The Big Leader's Morning Message
Citizens plug cords into their forearms, lie back, and await the word of the day.
Art
Does the West Have the Will to Survive?
It doesn’t really matter, because it can’t.
Art
The Stones Are Burning
The waves were slow, but persistent, giving us ample time to prepare for extinction.
Art
A Fog of Now
In its attempts to aestheticize mass destruction and memorialize the aftermath, Central Command delivers a clunky outtake of our near-nuclear demise.