NYC Inc.: Emergent City review
Jamestown Properties, the Atlanta-based global behemoth responsible for One Times Square and Chelsea Market, takes a star turn as Robert Moses 2.0 in Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur...
Author: Lauren Wissot
“She was simultaneously mentally ill and a run of the mill woman of her time”: Riefenstahl review
“For some things to be remembered other things must be forgotten”, we’re told in voiceover at the beginning of Riefenstahl, Andres Veiel’s riveting archival dive into the life of the titular...
“Artists are complicated”: S/He is Still Her/e – The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary review
Even if you’re not familiar with the experimental art/music groups Throbbing Gristle or Psychic TV, the synopsis for David Charles Rodrigues’s S/He is Still Her/e - The Official Genesis P-Orridge...
A year of surprises: my top 5 documentary film discoveries of the last 12 months
2024 got off to an auspicious cinematic start with the very first Sundance selection I saw staying with me all year long. As I wrote in my intro to an interview I did with the film’s director Silje...
“The illusion of immortality”: A Photographic Memory
Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s A Photographic Memory is a very intimate investigation into the life of a globetrotting journalist (and photographer and filmmaker) whose interviews with legendary lensers...
Wide Awake: dream hampton’s It Was All a Dream
Filmmaker and cultural critic dream hampton was both shaping and reshaping the world around her decades before she was named in the TIME 100 most influential people list of 2019 (not coincidentally,...
“A probing journey into the imperialist mindset”: Intercepted
“A Russian wouldn’t be a Russian if they didn’t steal something!” an anonymous woman wryly exclaims with a hint of pride in Oksana Karpovych’s Berlinale-premiering Intercepted, a probing...
Moscow Syndrome: A Bit of A Stranger
“Everything has to burn, so that we live in the future not in the past.” These words come not from the Kremlin but from the elderly mother of filmmaker Svitlana Lishchynska, one of the four...
Shame and punishment: Stormy Daniels takes the stand
While Israel’s war against Palestine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine still make above-the-fold news here in the US - mostly in the hyperbolic navel-gazing form of whether or not the former will...
Ways of (nonbinary) thinking: on desire and Desire Lines
“Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time-travels through an LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and erotic quest to unravel his own sexual desires” reads the synopsis for Jules...