There are a few different films all struggling for screen time in Noah Collier & Emily MacKenzie’s new documentary Carpet Cowboys, including a treatise on…
David Depesseville’s debut feature, Astrakan, is a film that is at once deeply humanist and utterly pitiless. Essentially a character study, the film depicts the…
Though the blues and jazz and bluegrass and country and frankly the whole catalogue of American music comes from the American South, the region’s role…
Animation is a tool that has been sporadically utilized to shade in the gaps of history within a subjective consciousness. These subjectivities often pertain to…
Since I was a boy, gaunt and ghoulish, raised on the children’s renditions of Edgar Allan Poe and those silly Goosebumps books, I’ve been obsessed…
The directorial duo of Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel have been regulars on the festival circuit for the better part of twenty years, but they…
Metanarratives have long-embodied the postmodern sensibility of ironic detachment by creating cultural products that are both self-acknowledging and effacing. They explore the very idea of…
On July 7th, 2006, Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett died of pancreatic cancer and complications from diabetes at the age of sixty. Although he was the…
Kids these days don’t even know what film, this emulsive material, is, as a talking head insipidly points out in Alex Winter’s strained and self-serious…
The burgeoning demand for cinematic “relevance” today comes with several implicit assumptions as to what that relevance entails. For starters, there’s a certain complementary relationship…
In his New York Times review of the English translation (by William Weaver) of The Name of the Rose, Franco Ferrucci described Umberto Eco’s idea…
The current American political climate is in a state of such disarray that we have now reached a point where individuals are basing their ideologies…
Neuroimaging studies of people who have recently experienced grief show that coping with death and loss significantly impacts human brain function. Voluntary actions, like memory…
Srdan Keca’s observational documentary, Museum of the Revolution, begins in darkness. The viewer reads a series of words from 1961: “The purpose of the Museum…
As of last year, 50 million people around the world considered themselves influencers. Whether it be a Twitch streamer playing video games, a TikTok persona…
For those who’ve ever lit a doobie and stared at Pink Floyd’s cover art with glazed eyes, wondering what it all means, man, rejoice: Anton…
Detrimental is the perspective mired in solipsism, where the world that surrounds a character exists only to serve their compulsions. What is disclosed through this…
At its most fraught, to be Black is to feel as if locked in constant battle with the external forces committed to devaluing your life…
At the outset of White Balls on Walls, it’s so decreed: the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will remove the massive welcome at their entrance that reads…
Jamie Sisley’s directorial debut, Stay Awake, is an addiction story that situates its two primary characters outside the epicenter of the addiction — in its…