Film
In Conversation
ACCOMPLICES
MATÍAS PIÑEIRO with Paul Felten
Beginning with The Stolen Man (2007) the Argentinian-born director Matías Piñeiro has made films that I can only describe as tantalizingly in-between—in between classical elegance and avant-garde jaggedness, workshop and finished product.
In Conversation
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS with David Gregory Lawson
This summer’s career retrospective of Christopher Williams at the Museum of Modern Art (through November 2) includes a marquee-ready photograph that is remarkable in its conceptual simplicity—unpretentious and tactile.
ON THE ROAD
Pier Paolo Pasolini, St. Paul
By Cathy Lee Crane
In 2012, I made a film about Pasolini inspired by his heresies, his spectacular excesses (the 400 blow jobs in the novel Petrolio), and his mosh-pit destruction of liberal politics (from pro-choice to sexual liberation).
In Conversation
JOHN PAIZS with Rumsey Taylor
John Paizs’s Crime Wave debuted at the 1985 Toronto International Film Festival to local acclaim. A Winnipeg-based filmmaker, Paizs had authored a work for which there was no clear precedent: it was decidedly less profane than David Cronenberg’s body horror films, which were at the time Canada’s most visible cinematic export.
