- Self-made Enigma: Raymond Roussel
Self-made Enigma: Raymond Roussel by Tynan Kogane
Not reading Roussel is similar to never having eaten a pomegranate: never having pulled apart the brittle skin, peeled back the bitter membrane, bit into each seed for a tiny…
- Tommy Hartung Anna
Tommy Hartung’s Anna: Constructing Dead Cinema by Rachel Wetzler
Hartung’s films constantly call attention to their status as constructed images, refusing the viewer any illusion that they might be visions of reality.
- I Don’t Get Tired of Seeing Other People’s Lives – An Interview with Dani Leventhal
I Want the Work to be Useful: An Interview with Dani Leventhal by James Cole
I’m aware that I’m in a safe room with my materials, doing this thing that I love, while in the larger world there’s something really fucked up going on.
- Byron Kim’s Night: Sealing Off the Wonder of the Sublime
Byron Kim’s Night: Sealing Off the Wonder of the Sublime by Brian Dupont
What sort of conceptualist is Kim, and what sort of pure painter, and to what purpose is the demarcation?
- Sleepless Night Stories
Sketches from Life: Jonas Mekas’s Sleepless Night Stories by Aaron Cutler
He lets the direct sound from his digital camera stand, so that everyone speaks in their own voices, and together give the film its title.
- Feb 6Self-made Enigma: Raymond Roussel
- Feb 4Tommy Hartung Anna
- Jan 17I Don’t Get Tired of Seeing Other P…
- Dec 21Byron Kim’s Night: Sealing Off the …
- Dec 19Sleepless Night Stories
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Self-made Enigma: Raymond Roussel
by Tynan Kogane February 6, 2012
Not reading Roussel is similar to never having eaten a pomegranate: never having pulled apart the brittle skin, peeled back the bitter membrane, bit into each seed for a tiny squirt of juice, ending up with a red-stained shirt.
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Tommy Hartung’s Anna: Constructing Dead Cinema
by Rachel Wetzler February 4, 2012
Hartung’s films constantly call attention to their status as constructed images, refusing the viewer any illusion that they might be visions of reality.
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I Want the Work to be Useful: An Interview with Dani Leventhal
by James Cole January 17, 2012
I’m aware that I’m in a safe room with my materials, doing this thing that I love, while in the larger world there’s something really fucked up going on.
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Byron Kim’s Night: Sealing Off the Wonder of the Sublime
by Brian Dupont December 21, 2011
What sort of conceptualist is Kim, and what sort of pure painter, and to what purpose is the demarcation?
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Sketches from Life: Jonas Mekas’s Sleepless Night Stories
by Aaron Cutler December 19, 2011
He lets the direct sound from his digital camera stand, so that everyone speaks in their own voices, and together give the film its title.
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undun: The Roots reclaim hip-hop for the corner
by J.A. Myerson December 14, 2011
undun doesn’t exactly tell the story of Redford Stephens, but it Scotch-tapes a series of Polaroids from his life to a wall that is unsightly with structural dampness.
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Dish, Dish: Gossiping with Joseph Epstein
by Margie Cook December 4, 2011
Epstein’s discerning eye for tantalizing details could have earned him a lucrative career as a gossip columnist in another life, but Gossip thrives on meatier substances.
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A Summer Place: Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy
by Courtney A. Fiske November 28, 2011
Tomboy paints that moment, poised on the cusp of adolescence, when make-believe can still be guileless.
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