Geek Out! FAST, CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL (1997)
We begin with TV-blurred, static-laced images: something mechanical, a circus, some kind of animal, a…
New Modes for Old Truths: Les Blank and the Living Past
Les Blank’s documentaries cover a range of subjects but keep coming back to some fundamental…
New Modes for Old Truths: the Beloved Community of PARIS IS BURNING (1990)
If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, it would be a fun world.…
THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION
The Black Panther Party was formed in 1966, 50 years ago this October. At the…
JIM: THE JAMES FOLEY STORY
In November 2012, freelance American war journalist James Foley and English photojournalist John Cantlie were…
Film on the Internet: THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-75 on Netflix
With the internet, the modern world has become a Tardis of sorts. The internet is…
Film on the Internet: CHUCK NORRIS VS. COMMUNISM on PBS
Somebody once said that all art is propaganda, but not all propaganda is art. In…
Memento Mori: THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE’S OWN EYES (1971)
The trajectory of Stan Brakhage’s approximately 50-year career moves from films he shot himself with…
Film on the Internet: DO I SOUND GAY? on Netflix
When The Boys in the Band was released in 1970, it received a backlash from the…
THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER
Dear old people, please turn off your goddamned phones. If your phone rings once in…