Patrick Preziosi on the reverberations of the Vietnam War in the art of several major American jazz musicians including Steve Lacy, Henry Threadgill, Revolutionary Ensemble and Billy Bang.
A Universe of Music in an Appalachian City: Big Ears Festival 2026
Alex Fields reports from this year’s Big Ears in Knoxville, delving into the music festival’s far-reaching lineup, moods and spaces.
Automatic Chronograph: The Films of Anocha Suwichakornpong
Jawni Han on Anocha Suwichakornpong’s protean use of cinema to express the unstable confluence of the personal and political, the past and the present.
Mountains From a Distance
Autumn Johnson on Monica Sorelle’s ‘Mountains’, a drama depicting the daily grind, aspirations and community of a Haitian family in a working class Miami under siege by the forces of capital.
Dances with Pyramids: Michael Robinson’s These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (2010)
Olivia Hunter Willke on the gilded and star-studded digital afterlife of Michael Robinson’s These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (2010)
Mementos: On Gunvor Nelson’s Family Matters
Ruairí McCann on the late Gunvor Nelson’s cinematic embodiments of the conflicts, complexities and revelations of family life and ageing.
Blasphemy and Freedom: João César Monteiro’s Post-Revolutionary Cinema
Justine Smith dives into the defiant, bacchanalian and melancholy cinema of João César Monteiro.
The Devil’s Rendering: On Jiří Trnka’s Antifascist Visuals
Tyler Thier writes on Jiří Trnka’s antifascist, animated bricolages, placing their subversive tactility in opposition to frictionless and fascist AI imagery.
Illusional Civilization: Bahram Beyzaei’s Journey
Faranak Nateghi on the context and poetics of Journey (Safar, 1972), Bahram Beyzaei’s metaphorical portrait of Tehran as a modern city of dazzling surfaces and transparent class inequality and alienation.
I Saw a Dry Leaf in a Field of Flowers: Locarno 78 and the Texture of Cinema
Arta Barzanji reports from this year’s Locarno Film Festival on the experimentation of Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf and Radu Jude’s Dracula.