MATÍAS PIÑEIRO — ISABELLA
It's a fictional film with a plot and it's not abstract, but it does have an intention of not saying everything so as not to be so oppressive. [I] try to leave space and room and a mystery in the
DOMINIQUE GONZALEZ-FOERSTER — VOLCANIC EXCURSION (A VISION)
Woke up in the middle of the night and had a vision. We were close to a small volcano with a gentle lava flow, the vegetation was tropical, there were hummingbirds and llamas. My body was multiplied in several apparitions,
RON ATHEY — ACEPHALOUS MONSTER
Ron Athey grew up in a family of Pentecostals and spiritualists. Speaking in tongues and dream analysis were everyday activities. Athey was revered as a young prophet whose tears were saved and shared on pieces of cloth. Someone once said
BRI WILLIAMS — PLAYBILL
I have found solace within my father’s stories since I was a child. I started to make a record for family keepsake this past year. He was born and raised in Marrero, Louisiana, in a small town that was more
KANDIS WILLIAMS — A FIELD
Kandis Williams’ exhibition A FIELD—an installation incorporating sculpture, photography, and video—“considers horticultural environments to explore the ways in which people, much like the crops they cultivate, can be subject to exploitation and control. By examining systems that seek to classify
PABLO LARRAÍN — EMA
In Pablo Larraín’s filmography, EMA falls between Jackie and Spencer, and like Mrs. Kennedy and Princess Diana, Ema (Mariana Di Girólamo) is a mesmerizing performance artist, the protagonist of disparate narratives of cauterization and healing. An extraordinary celebration of movement
BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND AND WU TSANG — ANTHEM
I know it’s not normal for most musicians, but I live in silence. I don’t listen to music at all unless something comes across my ears, and then I will listen to it exclusively for a year or two. I
TSAI MING-LIANG — DAYS
For the first decades of his career as a director and screenwriter, Tsai Ming-liang followed the traditions and complications of conventional film production, catering to a mainstream audience and its generic expectations of dialog, plot, and resolution. But once discovered
OUTFEST LA 2021 — BOULEVARD! A HOLLYWOOD STORY
Decades before Andrew Lloyd Webber fired Patti LuPone as Norma Desmond and replaced her with Glenn Close, another drama over the musical makeover of Sunset Boulevard played out in California and New York. In the mid-1950s, a fledgling songwriting team
OUTFEST LA 2021 — JUMP, DARLING
In JUMP, DARLING—written and directed by Phil Connell in his feature debut—Cloris Leachman plays irascible, plain-spoken Margaret, resident of rural Ontario and survivor of an alcoholic husband. Recognizing the same tendencies in her grandson Russell (Thomas Duplessie)—who has recently decamped to
