LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER — LAURE DE CLERMONT-TONNERRE IN CONVERSATION
Casting is everything, and for this latest version of D. H. Lawrence’s LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER, one cannot imagine two better choices to play Lady Constance Chatterley and her gamekeeper lover Mellors than Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell. Directed by Clermont-Tonnerre—the
JOANNA HOGG — THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER
Architecture as character—a stage set for experience and a porous container of memories—informed Joanna Hogg's 2013 film “Exhibition,” which explored the evolving dynamic of an artist couple as they prepare to sell their contemporary showplace of a house. With her
DRY GROUND BURNING — JOANA PIMENTA IN CONVERSATION
An AFI Fest 2022 must-see, DRY GROUND BURNING—written and directed by Pimenta and Adirley Queirós—blends documentary, science fiction, and scripted narrative in its unique focus on Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado) and Léa (Léa Alves Da Silva), gasolinheiras who tap the
MY BARBARIAN IN LOS ANGELES
The Institute of Contemporary Art exhibition “My Barbarian” is a three-channel video installation of a two-hour compilation of new edits of its performance work and archive, much of it previously unseen. The single gallery presentation also includes sculptures, paintings, drawings,
MATTHEW LÓPEZ — THE INHERITANCE
Matthew López’s THE INHERITANCE—at the Geffen Playhouse in a production directed by Mike Donahue—is inspired by E. M. Forster’s 1910 novel Howards End. A cursory awareness of “Morgan” Forster’s position in literary history and the queer pantheon is useful. After
ACID-FREE VIDEO CATALOGUE IN VANCOUVER
DoPe Press is delighted to present “Oscar Tuazon Water School” as part of Acid-Free / Video Catalogue in Vancouver—a video installation and market highlighting recent publications by Los Angeles and Vancouver art book publishers, organized in collaboration with Vancouver Art Book Fair
HEMALI BHUTA – LEARNING / WORKING
Time. Decay. Dust. Spice. Textile… These are some of the materials encompassed in the work of artist Hemali Bhuta, who maneuvers sculptural arrangements in response to site-specific spaces with subtle grace—the four walls of a gallery or an open field
MARTIN LABORDE – MAKING SOFT SCULPTURES
The French artist Martin Laborde, who co-runs the project space Ampersand in Lisbon, was invited by Acne Studio to conceive a capsule for its current Fall/Winter 2022 collection. Trained as a sculptor, Laborde welcomed the invitation with a series of
CLAIRE DENIS — STARS AT NOON
Alienation, drift, and humidity define Claire Denis’ STARS AT NOON, which follows an American activist-journalist at the end of her rope played with great emotional investment by Margaret Qualley. Trapped in a tense if not war-torn Central American country on
LOUIS GARREL — THE INNOCENT
For Louis Garrel, “real” memories and cinema memories form a narrative weave and the basis of his work as a director. When he was five years old he walked in on his mother in bed with a man who wasn't