In 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis radically upended the New College of Florida in an attempt to align the university with his party’s hyper-conservative ideologies,…
Even when Jorge Luis Borges wrote screenplays, they weren’t necessarily “Borgesian” — not, that is, distilled into the particular pleasure of following one of Borges’…
If you were to flip past Marine Atlan’s film La Gradiva on TV (which used to be a thing you could do), you might think…
Reverberation usually describes the phenomenon of a reflected and delayed sound impulse that, attenuated to the perceiving ear, has diverted into different manifestations from its…
The latest installment of Canadian filmmaker Louise Weard’s epic-length project Castration Movie is a departure in a few ways. For one thing, Part iii.ii, or…
There is a small but fascinating subset of filmmaking that we could call the “intentional community movie.” These films involve a small cadre of performers…
America’s contested legacy began even before the signing of the Declaration of Independence and, as far as cinema is concerned, continues to outgrow the fervid…
Nathan R. Stenberg, Mike Attie, and Katarina Poljak’s The Haunting of Pennhurst is an archival and verité look at the transformation of the notorious Pennhurst…
It’s hard to do justice to the images in Christine Haroutounian’s After Dreaming through words alone. Their quality is of a blinkered, bleary kind, as…