In a documentary about Black female strippers who dance for women, Leilah Weinraub makes us question how we think about sex and its presentation on camera.
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A Series of Radical Films By and About Women
BAMcinématek presents Women at Work: Radical Creativity, a series of historical narratives and experimental video works by women filmmakers.
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An Ethereal Performance Unravels Like a Pop-Up Book on Stage
In A Billion Nights on Earth, a father and son go in search of a stuffed animal, traveling through multiple parallel worlds that are magically portrayed on stage.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music Digitizes 70,000 Objects Spanning 150 Years of Performance
The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s new digital archive features playbills, photographs, videos, audio, and ephemera from a century and a half of theatrical history.
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Exposing the Struggles of Artists on Strike Against Life
James N. Kienitz Wilkins’s experimental documentary Common Carrier finds artists balancing creative pursuits and the demands of life in New York City.
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Two Experimental Films About a Cross-Dressing Female Adventurer in the Early 20th Century
BAM concludes its remarkable Leslie Thornton retrospective with a hefty pairing of digressive, serious works.
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A Dancer Finds Freedom in a Forest of Wires
It doesn’t feel right to call Plexus either a dance or a spectacle.
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An Operatic Lament for the Lonely Artist
“When we meet the very best, we have to give up,” baritone Rod Gilfry intoned in The Loser, composer David Lang’s one-act opera that debuted last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
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The Lasting Effects of a Broken Home in a Follow-Up to a 1983 Documentary
Martin Bell’s Streetwise (1984) endures. It’s a documentary that has spawned countless discussions on homeless children over the years.
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After 44 Elusive Years, a French New Wave Masterpiece Comes to Theaters
As it might be if Harper Lee or Thomas Pynchon ambled out of seclusion and made appearances at bookstores and literary conferences, the world theatrical premiere of Out 1: Noli me Tangere is not simply a coming-out party.
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Ingrid Bergman at 100: An Appreciation
Bergman was a vital, daring force both in the films in which she starred and — through her bold initiative, forging collaborations and instigating projects time and again — in the course of the history of cinema as a whole.
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David Byrne’s Avant-Color Guard
If you’ve ever been to a high school or college football game, chances are you’ve seen a color guard.