Film
Interior Life: Place in the Films of Joanna Hogg
By Rachael RakesOstensibly, Joanna Hogg’s latest film, Exhibition, is her most architectural to date. Nearly all of the action takes place in a striking modernist home in London, and the focus on the air, the light, and the limits and liberties of the structure are woven into the narrative inextricably.
Docs in Sight: A Plague of Money: Citizen Koch’s Concrete Tale of Cash and Politics
By Williams ColeWhen thinking about the role of money on the United States political stage, I am reminded of a joke a Hungarian art dealer told me recently: The Pessimist says: “Nothing can get worse than this!” The Optimist says: “Yes it can! Yes it can!”
OBERHAUSEN TURNS SIXTY
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
By Aily Nash
With six decades under its belt, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen continues to present short form works that subvert and astonish. Nestled in the western corner of Germany, the quiet town of Oberhausen and its neighboring post-industrial cities in the Ruhr valley are referred to as the Detroit of Germany.
In Conversation
SHAINA ANAND with Xin Zhou
Since 2007, Mumbai-based collaborative studio CAMP has been making art out of a variety of media, ranging from cycle rickshaws, wooden ships, state records, web browsers, and basic public works like water and electricity, as well as institutional environments like closed-circuit television (C.C.T.V.) control rooms and archives.
THE THIRST FOR ANNIHILATION William Friedkin’s Sorcerer
By Jason LaRivièreThat William Friedkin’s 1977 film Sorcerer should be re-released in a glistening new 4K digital restoration at Film Forum in some sense betrays the spirit of the film, for few works of American cinema have been so grounded in the well-grubbed materiality of the earth...
In Conversation
PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI with Joshua Sperling
If a more serious Jim Jarmusch made a road movie about a nun, a judge, and a musician in 1960s Poland, the result might be close to Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida.
