The Brooklyn Rail

Lukas Dhont’s Close

By Jasmine Liu

With Close, Lukas Dhont is studious of the ever-delicate changes in a relationship that take hold when we look at each other, touch each other, and pay attention to each other differently.

In Conversation

Ashley McKenzie with Joseph Pomp

Sitting down with the Rail’s Joseph Pomp, Ashley McKenzie discusses music, neurochemistry, and relationships in the process of creating her new film, Queens of the Qing Dynasty.

Sierra Pettengill’s Riotsville, U.S.A.

By Matene Toure

Sierra Pettengill’s Riotsville U.S.A. scrutinizes footage captured from fake model inner-city towns used to exercise the US Army’s fantasies of conquest and invasion in response to the “Summer of Love” in 1967.