Film
Offering open access to essays, lectures, and performances by contemporary artists and scholars during the pandemic.
Offering open access to essays, lectures, and performances by contemporary artists and scholars during the pandemic.
“Are you in pain?”
The first words spoken in Nina Menkes’s 1991 film, Queen of Diamonds, treated to a recent 4k restoration, slice through minutes of opening silence.
“You look really different than your picture.” This skewering statement is delivered at the outset of a doomed Tinder date by Anne, the impish protagonist of Kazik Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 Ft.
Mexico City’s sonidero scene finally gets the documentary it deserves.
Narrativizing everyday experiences of the pandemic in New York City.
The artist-filmmaker on his prescient collage film, featuring the jetsam and flotsam of global supply chains and a prophecy of the coming pandemic.
Cypriano’s documentary Born to Be follows the profound journeys of several patients and doctors at the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.
The detritus of a filmmaking career becomes an immersive work of autofiction.
The lossy poetics of Magenheimer’s video script-cum-publication embraces the split self of the information age.
Two friends flee from a band of vengeful hunters in the 1820s Northwest and dream of striking it rich.
A world in which quiet beauty can still intercept brutality and corruption.
The German filmmaker discusses her reductive approach.
With contributions from Laurie Simmons, Amy Jenkins, Mary Helena Clark, and more.
Portraits and hauntings are inseparable bedfellows in film history.
On directing a film about the Mir space station and viewing the fall of the Soviet Union from above.
An interrogation of the ways in which the system of representation surrounding breast cancer can isolate, infantilize, and even erase the women it professes to help.
A final, reflexive work from the godmother of the French New Wave.
A portrait of Langston Hughes and Black queer Harlem.
A short history of Detroit techno.
I never made a decision to become a film editor—or, in any case, I didn’t decide upon it at a young age and follow a single career path.
