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At Tribeca Film Festival, Experiencing Submersion, Blindness, and Incarceration in VR

The communal experience of watching a film in theaters is a prime part of moviegoing, but at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, solitary visual consumption is receiving ample attention.

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Pensive Short Films About Peculiar and Forgotten Places

The texture and peculiarity of history, place, and the everyday color a ruminative set of short films in this year’s Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Art

The Hypnotic Portrait Paintings of Film Noir

Before she even appears in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, Laura Hunt is an obsession for the hardboiled police detective, who is mesmerized with the supposedly dead woman through her portrait.

Art

A Dying Society: Abel Gance’s 'End of the World'

Abel Gance’s 1931 film End of the World certainly did represent the “end” of a very important thing: the director’s career as a great cinema pioneer.

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Honoring an American Titan of 20th-Century Experimental Cinema

Ever-moving, ever-changing — that’s the cinema of Bruce Baillie.

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.

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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?