Film
Indigenous Filmmakers Share Features, Shorts, and More Online
This weekend, the collective COUSIN presents film by directors they've commissioned new work from, including Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, seth cardinal dodginghorse, and more.
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Film
A Poignant Ode to Public Housing
Screening as part of Images Festival, Ayo Akingbade’s trilogy No News Today offers an incisive glimpse at the British Nigerian filmmaker’s hometown.
Books
Jonas Mekas's Diary Reveals His Uncertain Sense of Self
This first volume of the filmmaker's journals charts his progress from immigrant life in Williamsburg to the center of the American avant-garde.
Film
Tired of Netflix? Stream Experimental Films and Video Art
We reached out to artists, filmmakers, and Hyperallergic contributors to assemble a list of what we’ve been sharing on our networks, after finding inspiration in Kate Lain’s “Cabin Fever” playlist.
Film
Mining Indigenous Myths and Languages to Contemplate Life's Meaning
Sky Hopinka’s rapturous feature-length debut, małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, elaborates on his previous explorations of Chinuk Wawa while hewing to a more linear structure.
News
Make Your Own Experimental Film Out of GIFs and Philip Glass
Rico Monkeon's "Gifaanisqatsi" uses the score from the classic documentary Koyaanisqatsi and random GIFs to generate mesmerizing custom montages.
Interview
Deconstructing Colonial Cinema with Ethnographic Fiction
Experimental filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán talks to Hyperallergic about challenging the standard modes of exoticism, ethnography, and anthropology.
Art
The Best Films of the Decade
The landscape of cinema has changed immeasurably in just 10 years. These 25 picks show how.
Art
Best of 2019: Our Top 12 Documentaries and Experimental Films
Our favorite experimental and/or nonfiction movies of 2019, brought to you by the writers and editors of Hyperallergic.
Film
Seeing How Experimental Documentary Film Can Get
The Paradocs program at the 2019 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam toys with the very structural components of cinema.
Art
Don't Cry Cause It's Over: A Program of Queer Experimental Shorts Reframes Loss
This Saturday, Anthology Film Archives presents Representations of Leaving: Queer Death and Heavens, a program of experimental shorts focused on experiences of loss, rebirth, and queer utopia.
Film
"DIY or Die": Brooklynites Face the Apocalypse in Empty Metal
We might think of Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer's latest as a cyborg film — both its subject matter and formal approach depend on unifying across difference, a fuck-you to essentialized binaries.