Hollywood looks to journalism for the future
by Jake Nevins Media cognoscenti have been forecasting the death of long-form journalism for at least a decade now, and you can’t blame them. As [more…]
Shining in abundance of light
by Aaron AtkinsThe Love Film Festival announced the winners in various categories, and to be fair, it could be said that all the winners among [more…]
The History of Iranian Independent Cinema and Its International Presence in the World
by Mostafa Mohammad Khani Independent Iranian cinema began in the 1940s with the flow of Iranian intellectual literature. And with directors such as Farrokh Ghaffari, [more…]
Trump Card
by Louisa.H Pouran Derakhshandeh is one of the few Iranian female filmmakers who has been active in making narrative films continuously. In most of her [more…]
Artists and Museum Professionals Vexed by Imbroglio at MOCA L.A.
BY Andy Battaglia, Maximilíano Durón As questions swirled last week around the dismissal of Helen Molesworth as chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art [more…]
$110.5 M. Basquiat Masterpiece Will Travel to Seattle, the Latest Stop on a Tour Painfully Exemplifying Problems of the Present Moment
BY ANDREW RUSSETH After it completes a six-week stint at the Brooklyn Museum this Sunday, the untitled 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat skull painting that sold to [more…]
Representation in film matters to minorities
by: Hoang Nguyen 53% of black Americans think black characters are often stereotypedWith Black Panther breaking box office records and films like Get Out and [more…]
Betty Woodman, Maker of Audacious Ceramics, Dies at 87
BY ALEX GREENBERGER Betty Woodman, the sculptor who has, for the past six decades, created ceramics that draw on and combine various art-historical styles, often with [more…]
What is the role of the film viewer? The effects of narrative comprehension and viewing task on gaze control in film
by John P. Hutson Film is ubiquitous, but the processes that guide viewers’ attention while viewing film narratives are poorly understood. In fact, many film [more…]