Arta Barzanji selects a brief excerpt from ‘Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene’ as a tribute to Danièle Huillet.
Women’s Day: The War is Never Over – Transcendental Darklands of Lydia Lunch and Louise Bourque
At the recent French premiere of the documentary film The War is Never Over (2019, dir. Beth B), iconic No wave queen Lydia Lunch – whose tumultuous life and career are the subject of the film – described her constant struggle with childhood trauma as the creative force behind her long-lasting career as an artist, which now stretches over four decades.
Women’s Day: Three thoughts on Ute Aurand
Three thoughts offered on 16mm works by German experimental filmmaker Ute Aurand.
Women’s Day: The Limits of Intimacy and Language in the Genealogical Cinema Of Sofia Bohdanowicz
Over the course of three features, several shorts and an amalgamation of fiction and non-fiction, Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz has deepened her expression of how family wields a powerful and complex influence over an individual’s sense of self.
Women’s Day: Perfect, Imperfect Endings – On Barbara Loden’s ‘Wanda’ (1970)
by Patrick Preziosi Art can be inherently political, but demanding didactic manifestations of intent and closed-circuit endpoints is anything but–– the most piercingly conscious works eschew such politeness […]