Film
Honoring an American Titan of 20th-Century Experimental Cinema
Ever-moving, ever-changing — that’s the cinema of Bruce Baillie.
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Art
Creating a Puppet Documentary for the Count Who Loved a Corpse
The fact that he slept for seven years with the corpse of a woman he loved is, for filmmaker Ronni Thomas, one of the least interesting things about Count von Cosel.
Art
An Expansive Exhibition Stars Hollywood and Contemporary Art
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 Ritualized Anger of a Queer Poet
In The Book of Conrad, a documentary profiling the life and creative practice of poet CAConrad, we see anger anew: as the impulse behind living, behind ritual, even behind prayer.
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Parasite Party: Otar Iosseliani’s 'Winter Song'
Parisian by way of Soviet Georgia, director Otar Iosseliani, whose new film Winter Song premiered this past week at the Film Society of the Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, is what one might refer to as a citizen of the world.
Art
A Lifetime Devoted to Sketching the Design Details of the New York Subway
The most encyclopedic history of the art and architecture of New York City’s subway is slowly being compiled by one man, who sketches every design detail of its stations.
Film
Twenty Years Later, Returning to a Pioneering Black Lesbian Film
It's the 1990s when a young, ambitious filmmaker goes on the hunt for "the Watermelon Woman," a black actress who played mostly mammy roles in 1930s and '40s Hollywood films.
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An Ojibway Prophecy Reimagined on Film
What does it mean to be Ojibway now, in 2016?
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A Filmmaker Probes the Magic and Madness of Female Adolescence
LOS ANGELES — As a woman who was once a teenage girl, I have a certain fondness for any filmic or visual art that harkens back to that time of intense, unbridled feelings, awkward physical changes, and sexual desires running wild ’n free.
Art
The Avant-Garde Films of a Thief of Light and Shadow
Thieves tend to be remembered fondly, grandly, or at least without the usual sort of scorn that characterizes criminality.
Film
A Portrait of an Iranian Artist Who Went Home After 25 Years in Exile
WASHINGTON, DC — In Iran, it’s difficult to know where the artistic and the political are separated, if they can be separated at all.
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A Test of Faith: Jacques Rivette's Story of Marie and Julien
No one is quite likeable in Jacques Rivette’s 2003 film, The Story of Marie and Julien.