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An Artist Who Grew Up in Boyle Heights Navigates the Fight Over Gentrification
This exclusive new short documentary considers the less discussed and more personal perspective of what it’s like to be an artist from Boyle Heights.
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A Film Connects Rat Control and Racism in Baltimore
With Rat Film Theo Anthony shows how Baltimore’s rat infestation and racism originate in and are enmeshed with the city’s historical development.
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Standout Shorts from the Toronto International Film Festival
The festival has a choice selection of experimental works under its Wavelengths banner, from a documentary about Standing Rock to a film on black activist poetry in Detroit.
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Revisiting a Devastating 1900 Hurricane in an Experimental 3D Film
PROTOTYPE, artist Blake Williams's first feature, is a non-narrative journey through the aftermath of the Great Gavelston Hurricane shot in crisp 3D.
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A Spectacle of Fables and Fascism
In a new documentary, Tuscan townspeople turn the crises of their lives into the stuff of drama.
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Can a Tiny Tuscan Town Keep Its "Poor Theater" Alive?
In the documentary Spettacolo, the people of Monticchiello see art as a tool to promote populism.
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A Film Series Inspired by One Really Out-There Episode of the New Twin Peaks
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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Explore the Early Years of Technicolor Film in 40,000 Documents
The George Eastman Museum's Technicolor Online Research Archive has newly digitized documents from 1914 to 1955, chronicling the development of Technicolor film.
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A Film About Falling in Love and Geeking Out About Modernism
Set in the eponymous Indiana town, Kogonada's Columbus is a film about architecture with an Asian American aesthetic.
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A Polish Filmmaker Explores Trans Identity Through Abstraction
Wojciech Puś's Endless is loosely based on the life of a trans woman, but it is not about a journey from point A to point B.
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Tracking a Warhol Brillo Box's Journey Through the Art Market
In a new short documentary, Lisanne Skyler follows the trajectory of a Warhol sculpture her father bought when she was an infant.
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Rediscovering Lois Weber, Who Made Socially Conscious Silent Films
Film Forum is paying tribute to the actress, director, and producer who made over 130 films at a time when women behind the camera were rare.