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The Industry and Leisure of the World’s Largest Middle Class

by Hrag Vartanian June 16, 2021June 19, 2021

Jessica Kingdon’s new film Ascension documents the factories, etiquette centers, and other contemporary curiosities of China.

Posted inFilm

A First-Person Interrogation of a Family’s Guilt-Ridden Past

by Ren Scateni June 10, 2021June 10, 2021

A combination video essay and road movie, Angelo Madsen Minax’s documentary North By Current understands life upheavals as rites of passage.

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A Romance Horror Film Spotlights the Fraught Politics of Eating Meat in India

by Poulomi Das May 9, 2019May 13, 2019

Aamis can be simultaneously read as a slow-burning forbidden romance, an allegorical nod to socio-cultural repressions, and as macabre corporeal horror.

Posted inFilm

Other Music Remembers a Beloved New York Record Store

by Susannah Gruder May 3, 2019November 4, 2019

The new documentary tells the story of the music institution’s life — and death.

Posted inArt

Learn How New Emoji Are Created

by Tobias Carroll April 29, 2019November 4, 2019

The directors of the documentary Picture Character talk about getting inside the emoji-making process.

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Glimpses of Laurie Simmons’s Life and Art in Her First Feature Film

by Alina Cohen April 27, 2017

Laurie Simmons’s new feature film, My Art, screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, includes many metafictional nods to the artist’s real life.

A scene from Tom of Finland (all photos courtesy of Protagonist Pictures)
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A Long Overdue Biopic Tells Tom of Finland’s Life Story

by Benjamin Sutton April 26, 2017April 27, 2017

A biographical film about the Finnish adman and expert draughtsman who made exquisite drawings of explicit gay erotic encounters is playing at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Marina Abramovic appears in Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (photo by Ken Ng)
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A Documentary Introduction to the Art World, with Star Power and Obvious Ideas

by Alina Cohen April 25, 2017April 25, 2017

Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World, showing at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a successful crash course in the forces shaping the art market that fails to go deeper.

Richard Hambleton "Standing Man" (photo by Hank O'Neal, all photos courtesy Storyville Films)
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The Rise and Fall of a 1980s Street Art Star

by Jon Hogan April 21, 2017April 21, 2017

Artist Richard Hambleton’s career took off in the 1980s, but the following decade he was wracked by addiction and destitute. A new documentary tracks his dramatic trajectory.

Posted inArt

A Video Game That Tailors Its Terrors to Your Anxiety

by Allison Meier May 10, 2016August 3, 2021

“Go to your happy place,” the game attendant told me as the digital kitchen on my screen filled with milk and I was drowning.

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A Documentary About the Artist Who Stole Banksy’s Work Out of Spite

by Alina Cohen April 22, 2016April 22, 2016

The Banksy Job looks remarkably like the 2010 mockumentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, but its co-directors maintain that the whole thing is unscripted.

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Climbing into a Mortuary Drawer to Smell the Scents of JFK’s Last Moments

by Allison Meier April 19, 2016August 3, 2021

In Famous Deaths, you experience the smells and sounds of the last four minutes of someone’s life, all while closed inside a metal mortuary drawer.

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