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Jeremy Polacek

A son of the Chicago suburbs, Jeremy Polacek has somehow lived in New York City longer than in that metropolis of the Midwest. Often found in the dim light of the theatre or library, he tweets at @JeremyPolacek.

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A Film Series Inspired by One Really Out-There Episode of the New Twin Peaks

by Jeremy Polacek August 31, 2017August 31, 2017

In the aftermath of the sublimely ominous and abstract episode “Part 8” (aka “Gotta Light”), Metrograph organized a wide-ranging program of related films and video art.

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A German Filmmaker Who Captured the Poetics of Labor and the Legacy of Fascism

by Jeremy Polacek June 23, 2017

The Film Society of Lincoln Center is presenting A Vision of Resistance: Peter Nestler , the first large retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker in the US.

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From Aura Photos to Automatic Writing, an Artist Plumbs the Abyss Between Belief and Disbelief

by Jeremy Polacek June 1, 2017June 5, 2017

Susan Hiller’s exhibition at Lisson Gallery approaches the weird and the unusual with illuminating, liberating aplomb.

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Dispassionate Films of Crushed Cars and the Mirrored Moon

by Jeremy Polacek May 8, 2017August 3, 2022

In his solo show at Andrew Kreps Gallery, Kevin Jerome Everson offers an abstracted extension of the more human-centered work he’s known for.

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Two Experimental Films About a Cross-Dressing Female Adventurer in the Early 20th Century

by Jeremy Polacek May 4, 2017May 3, 2017

BAM concludes its remarkable Leslie Thornton retrospective with a hefty pairing of digressive, serious works.

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A Long-Censored Chilean Filmmaker Revisits a Documentary 30 Years Later

by Jeremy Polacek April 26, 2017April 25, 2017

Playing at Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Art of the Real series, This Is the Way I Like It II is a playful, entangled follow-up to Ignacio Agüero’s 1985 film.

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A Deeply Intimate Movie About Going Blind

by Jeremy Polacek November 17, 2016November 16, 2016

Peter Middleton’s and James Spinney’s Notes on Blindness is a dramatic account of English theologian John Hull’s loss of sight.

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From Silver Screen to Boob Tube, Mass Media Art Goes to the White Cube

by Jeremy Polacek May 13, 2016

That film is open to all sorts of escapes, inspirations, and incursions has long been the stuff of movies.

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Pensive Short Films About Peculiar and Forgotten Places

by Jeremy Polacek April 15, 2016April 17, 2016

The texture and peculiarity of history, place, and the everyday color a ruminative set of short films in this year’s Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

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An Expansive Exhibition Stars Hollywood and Contemporary Art

by Jeremy Polacek April 1, 2016April 9, 2016

As Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, the Museum of the Moving Image’s auspicious foray into exhibiting contemporary art, wryly suggests, it might be film and its iconic images that help stave off decay.

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The Avant-Garde Films of a Thief of Light and Shadow

by Jeremy Polacek February 22, 2016February 24, 2016

Thieves tend to be remembered fondly, grandly, or at least without the usual sort of scorn that characterizes criminality.

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Moving Forwards and Backwards in Time with ‘The Shining’

by Jeremy Polacek January 29, 2016August 2, 2017

Picked apart and poured over by a confederacy of film-obsessed mavens with keen eyes and airtight attention spans, Stanley Kubrick’s opus The Shining (1980) has proven remarkably fecund over its 36-year lifetime.

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