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You Can't Unsee Unsane, Steven Soderbergh’s Thriller About Mental Illness
Unsane reveals how entire institutions deny people's individual experiences, demanding they submit to the official version of reality.
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40 Strangers Meet in a Deeply Uncomfortable Documentary
In Leigh Ledare's new film The Task, his subjects are not only aware of their participation in an art project, but openly speak about it.
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A New Film Charts 150 Years of African-American Art
Black Is the Color, a 50-minute documentary, offers a survey of African-American art from 1867 to today.
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Andy Goldsworthy's Ephemeral Art and Laborious Process, in a New Documentary
In the documentary Leaning into the Wind, the celebrated sculptor and environmental artist muses on the impermanence of his art.
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How the Black Audio Film Collective Remixed Fact and Fiction
Active between 1982 and 1998, the collective made over a dozen films about the personal and political experiences of people of color living in Britain.
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This Oscar-Winning Short Doc Animates the Life of an Unpretentious Artist
Mindy Alper, who has struggled with mental illness her whole life, uses drawing and papier-mâché sculpture for both therapy and communication.
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A Starkly Beautiful Film About Bach, Through the Lens of His Wife’s Diary
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, entirely played by professional musicians, is a peculiar and striking film.
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On Body and Soul Follows a Strange Romance Set in a Slaughterhouse
Ildiko Enyedi's film, which is nominated for an Oscar, is a fantastical reflection on human intimacy and vulnerability.
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The Square Pushes Beyond the Frame of the Art World
Ruben Östlund’s deadpan film follows a contemporary art curator who repeatedly makes bad situations worse by deviating from the socially accepted script.
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50 Years Later, We Still Don’t Know Whether This Film Is Fact or Fiction
In his 1968 film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, William Greaves turned cinéma verité on itself, never making it clear whether the story was in fact fiction, nonfiction, improvisation, or some combination of the above.
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This Year's Oscar-Nominated Shorts Are Slam Dunks
From a film on basketball legend Kobe Bryant to an adaptation of Roald Dahl poems, this is the first crop of nominees in many years without a single dud.
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Brazil's Extreme Social Tensions on Film
The 21st edition of the Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes film festival reflected Brazil's volatile social and political climate, while avoiding the conventions of poverty porn.