“I make the films I want to make, about issues I see around me in India.”
Interviews
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Beer With a Painter: Mernet Larsen
“Rather than being attracted to artists because of their skills or sensitivity, I was always more interested in ideas and imagination.”
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“It still seems difficult to imagine a world that isn’t equal parts awful and terrifying.”
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Hanif Abdurraqib on Black Performance and the Joy of Writing his New Book
The poet talks to Hyperallergic about A Little Devil in America and the process behind his new music podcast, Object of Sound.
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A Look Inside an Extravagant Florida Retirement Community
Director Lance Oppenheim talks to Hyperallergic about Some Kind of Heaven.
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Something in this painting seemed to change over the course of 2020.”
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Observing a Changing Wuhan Along the Banks of the Yangtze
Hyperallergic talks to Wuhan native Shengze Zhu about her new documentary A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces, which recently premiered at Berlinale.
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Living with art, I am surrounded by thoughts, visions and conversations by other artists. It’s all very intimate.”
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Ariel René Jackson on the “Detective Work” of Telling Truthful Stories
“We need to keep reassessing where we get our data from to understand how the narrative is shaped. And how it shapes us,” says Jackson.
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Since the start of the pandemic I’ve hung onto fleeting moments of beauty.”
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Dan Hicks on the Benin Bronzes and Ultraviolence of World Culture Museums
“The Brutish Museums” considers the histories of cruelty that western museums perpetuate when they do not endeavor to return looted colonial artifacts.
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Bringing the FBI’s War on Martin Luther King Jr. to Light
Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks to Hyperallergic about his documentary MLK/FBI, how history repeats, and how authorities treat left- and right-wing protests differently.