Sixto Muñoz lives alone, but he likes to visit town to have a few beers (which his friends are happy to buy for him) and…
Suburbia, There and Back is a landscape film set in the area around Paris, and eventually in the city itself. With static shots ranging from…
The 20th century is insistently knocking at our door. The crises of its institutions dominate the news, its tragedies repeating themselves daily as farce. The…
Now in its third year, Film Fest Knox continues to be a model for what a small regional festival should be, combining highlights from the…
Wavelengths 2: Into the Blue, more than either of the other 2025 shorts programs or the features, exemplifies experimental film programming’s recent trend toward documentary,…
Perhaps the first film where an alien ice mummy fails a breathalyzer test, Jesse Thomas Cook’s The Hyperborean aims for nothing less than the sort…
Viewed from one angle, Kevin Jerome Everson’s eclipse studies are as anomalous as the phenomena they capture. Everson’s body of work documents Black life with…
James Benning’s 2021 film The United States of America works through 50 landscapes, one from each state in alphabetical order, only to end its credits…
Dane Komljen’s previous film, Afterwater (2022), is a triptych exploring the boundaries of humanity’s relationship with gender and the environment. It begins with an observational…
In one way, horror fans have a lot to be happy about. Over the past decade, the genre has broken out of its “midnight movie”…
The tragic history of the Nakba — the Israeli occupation — and the resulting diaspora have led to a distinctive voice among Palestinian experimental filmmakers.…
For the past several years, Leonardo Pirondi has created a fascinating body of experimental works that play with fictional documentary frameworks to produce complex layers…
Desire Lines is a hybrid film that understands the themes it wants to address, but struggles to find the formal means. Part conventional talking heads…
When critic Darren Hughes and filmmaker Paul Harrill founded The Public Cinema in 2015, their goal was to bring important works of world cinema and…