Film
Insurrectional Evolution: The Cronenbergian Revisited
Film critic Nathan Lee explores the insurrectional body in David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” and asks “What do we mean when we speak of the ‘Cronenbergian’?”
The French Dispatch: How Wes Anderson Critics Gaslit Themselves, and Me
There is a wide chasm between what The French Dispatch presents itself to be and what it is.
Constitutionally Flawed
María Korol’s artist project traces the subtext of history and autobiography in her practice of layered obfuscation.
Telling Stories About Ourselves: Zia Anger’s Radical Mythmaking
Witnessing & Community-Making in Bouchra Khalili’s Essay Films
The impact of witnessing in the essay films of Bouchra Khalili.
Historians of Exile
The immigrant documentaries of Chantal Akerman and Jonas Mekas.
Thinking Through Contagion
Confront a problem and think it to death.
A Year of Women’s Revenge
In 2019, women protagonists become the avengers for systemic violence.