We've seen countless images of violence against the oppressed, often in the name of raising awareness. Why are there so many fewer depictions of acts of vengeance and revenge and fighting back against the powerful?
Unfamiliar takes on the so-called "new world" is the subject of the ambitious film series "Another Country: Outsider Visions of America," on view through August 14 at Lincoln Center. The series…
Jianghu is the key that unlocks a secret dimension of Jia Zhangke's past work, and a crucial framework through which to reread his entire artistic oeuvre.
French-British filmmaker Beatrice Gibson champions community, creativity, and motherhood as ways of living through times of political turmoil.
The diverse range of work in "Irrespective," which viewers encounter in galleries filled with the background audio-wash of her videos, makes it clear that what really underlies Martha Rosler's art is…
Warren Sonbert's cinema is witty, exhausting, sentimental, and full of rage. But it is never facile, and it never concedes to being any of these things all the time.
Black Audio Film Collective trapped the howling voices of empire in a sort of cinematic seashell.
Fifty years later, watching these movies can inspire a profound disappointment that all this artistic and political energy never found a way to convert itself into something more substantial.
Contemporary music, like dance, has often been created in collaboration with its performers.
Carissa Rodriguez's twelve-minute video crafts a narrative of circulation and reproduction: of artworks, art histories, and capital. Â
