Film
The Women and Children of the Second Artsakh War
Two films make US viewers reckon with the extent to which American ignorance — and indifference — to the conflict is a side effect of “winning” the Cold War.
Eileen G’Sell
Eileen G’Sell is a poet and culture critic whose work focuses on gender, sexuality, and economic class. She is a 2023 winner of the Rabkin Foundation Prize in arts journalism and teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
Film
Man Ray’s Beguiling and Bemusing Filmscapes
Man Ray’s Return to Reason film series anticipated the extent to which the motion picture would inform how we curate and call up memory.
Film
The Art World and the American Hustle Meet in Problemista
Julio Torres’s directorial debut takes a fantastical approach to depicting the very real trials of immigration and creative work.
Film
Onlookers Records the Lure of the Tourist Gaze
Kimi Takesue’s new documentary nudges us to consider whether we in the audience differ all that much from the tourists whipping out their iPhones.
Film
Pandora’s Box Unleashes a Universe of Male Oppression
Newly restored, G.W. Pabst’s 1929 film provides a bleak, unsettling account of a showgirl’s ruin at the greedy hands of competing male suitors.
Film
Sundance Documentaries Pay Tribute to Female Trailblazers
This year’s Sundance Film Festival offered an array of documentaries spanning cultural vantages and historic eras, about women who span the globe.
Film
In Four Daughters, Women’s Narratives Prevail
Kaouther Ben Hania’s feature film blurs the distance between the personal and cultural, individual and systemic.
Film
Anselm’s Sweeping Vision Obscures the Political
What does it mean for a film addressing overtly political themes to remain apolitical?
Film
The Silencing of Female Sexuality Champion Shere Hite
Director Nicole Newnham chronicles the rise, fall, and disappearance of the iconic feminist sexologist.
Film
The Commodification of American Motherhood
How to Have an American Baby exposes a Chinese business that cares only for the bottom line, and a private US hospital system more than happy to serve patients paying cash.
Film
New Doc Updates Virginia Woolf’s Gender-Bending Orlando
Paul B. Preciado’s film prizes creative passion over pathology, and trades individual trauma for collective and individual transcendence.
Art
Crowning the Queens of Hip-Hop Culture
Women artists’ contributions shine in The Culture, an exhibition about hip hop at the Saint Louis Art Museum.