Film
Specious Realities at DOC NYC
By Williams ColeThere has been much talk over the last year of the “post-truth era” and significant hand-wringing about how to reinstate a respect for “reality” (i.e. “the world or state of things as they actually exist as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them”).
In Conversation
BARBARA HAMMER with Alexandra Juhasz
Over tea and croissants at her Westbeth Studio, filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer met feminist film scholar and filmmaker Dr. Alexandra Juhasz for a lively back and forth about Hammer’s New York city-wide retrospective.
Lost in the Field of Screens: The Films of Olivia Ciummo
By Michael SicinskiIt’s often been my experience that the significance of an emerging filmmaker’s work seems to be directly proportional to my difficulty in understanding or writing about it.
In Conversation
MICHAEL ROBINSON with Z. W. Lewis
Michael Robinson’s newest video work, Onward Lossless Follows (2017), takes a trip over desert landscapes to the great digital future unknown.
The Collaborators: Yuzo Kawashima x Ayako Wakao at Japan Society
By Jaime GrijalbaJapan Society’s recent film series “Yuzo Kawashima x Ayako Wakao” presents a compelling counterpoint to Ozu’s vision of Japanese society by way of three films directed by Yuzo Kawashima, all of which were released around the same time as An Autumn Afternoon (1962).
