Brooklyn's Beachfront Romance With Cinema Continues at the Coney Island Film Festival

By Joshua Glick

DEC 19-JAN 20 | Film

The 19th Annual Coney Island Film Festival (CIFF) wrapped, per ritual, in an epic bumper car bash. Filmmakers, organizers and spectators found themselves colliding into one another at the Eldorado Auto Skooter rink on Surf Avenue. The event was thoroughly in the spirit of the festival, which does not simply take place at the storied amusement destination, but is of it in distinct ways. The cultural geography of the region shapes all aspects of exhibition and programming.

Brooklyn 2020

By Steven Taylor

DEC 20-JAN 21 | Poetry

Steven Taylor is a writer and musician living in Brooklyn. His latest works are Don’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg, from Three Rooms Press, and Songs of Innocence and of Experience, from Ace Records.

A Moveable Feast: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021

By Marius Hrdy

MARCH 2021 | Film

Unlike other festivals opting to toss films into a pool of sameness and replete of curatorial context, International Film Festival Rotterdam’s curated precision was kept intact, preserving the festival’s distinct relevance as a harbor for innovative moving image work.

Modes of Resistance: Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2020

By Marius Hrdy

DEC 20-JAN 21 | Film

The picturesque wonders of Berwick-upon-Tweed trespassed into the liminal space of memory and virtuality this year as the 16th edition of Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival took place entirely online.