Tag: Film
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A Delightful Short Film Highlights the Remarkable Self-Taught Art of George Voronovsky
In the mid-20th century, before preservation efforts revived Miami’s Art Deco South Beach neighborhood with bright colors and lavish hotels, the area was a whitewashed holiday haven for retirees. And in a third-floor room of the Colony Hotel, which looked out onto the building’s marquee and the street below, a unique artistic endeavor unfolded. Ukrainian read more
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A Short Film Joins In the Timeless Swiss Masked Tradition of Silvesterchlausen
In communities throughout Switzerlands’s Appenzell Hinterland and Midland regions, a unique tradition with enigmatic origins unfolds around the New Year. Known as Silvesterchlausen, the custom entails a group of boys and men who don remarkable, handmade costumes with masks and headdresses that represent rural, wild, and natural scenes. “Silvesterchlausen,” a dreamy short film by writer read more
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Lost for More Than a Century, the First 'Sci-Fi' Film Ever Made Resurfaces
Around 1897, the French director Georges Méliès made a silent short film that, until last month, hadn’t been publicly viewable for more than a century. “Gugusse et l’Automate,” or “Gugusse and the Automaton,” is a 45-second slapstick piece featuring a magician and a Pierrot-styled robot as they duke it out. Méliès is best known for read more
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Lucy Raven’s Latest Film Captures a Dramatic Dam Removal in the Pacific Northwest
Lucy Raven’s film work Murderers Bar (2025) captures the removal of a dam in the Pacific Northwest and the dramatic release of water that takes the form of a newly born river as it rushes from Oregon through Northern California on its way to the Pacific Ocean. The 42-minute piece is the final part of read more
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Watch the Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Latest Film
The art world continues to be Hollywood’s new favorite setting. Following Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist, an art thriller released last month, and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, a 2025 film about an art heist, comes The Christophers by director Steven Soderbergh. The new film, set to be released April 10 in the US and May 15 read more
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New Film About a Viral Finger Painting Prodigy Skewers the Art World’s Cruel Optimism
A Canadian curator and sad dad is working for a Quebecois collector in Nina Roza, a film that premiered this week at Berlinale. His rich boss is doomscrolling and stops on a viral video that shows a child prodigy finger painting in a Bulgarian barn. Her abstractions, she explains to the camera, depict the cosmos; read more
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From Gorillaz to the Port of Los Angeles: Stephen Thomas Gallagher to Debut a Trippy New Film During Frieze LA
There are many people who say they have the coolest job in the world. Stephen Thomas Gallagher might actually have a case. Hedesigns live showsfor Gorillaz and Lana Del Rey. He helped build ablazing London tower block with a tube train smashed through itat Glastonbury, and once brought a little bit (or rather,a whole chunk) read more
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Art Basel Hong Kong Reveals Program Details for 2026 Fair, from an Ayoung Kim Film to an Elemental Curatorial Vision
Art Basel returns to Hong Kong this March with 240 galleries and an expanded program, including a reimagined Encounters section and the Asia debut of the digital-focused Zero 10. Following its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach in December, Zero 10’s first Hong Kong outing will feature 14 exhibitors with a program that includes digital read more
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Painted by Hand, a Stop-Motion Film Eulogizes a Lost Childhood Home
Jason Mitcham’s childhood home in Greensboro, North Carolina, is no longer standing. In 2011, the local government seized the house and the land he grew up on via eminent domain to widen what was then High Point Road into what’s now Gate City Boulevard. Mitcham last saw the site in 2023, when a paved highway read more
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A Painterly Short Film Follows Alfred Nakache from Swimming Star to Holocaust Survivor
As a child, Artem “Alfred” Nakache (1915-1983) was afraid of water. The youngest of 11 children in a Jewish family that emigrated from Iraq to Constantine, Algeria, Alfred eventually overcame his terror of the depths and actually excelled at swimming. He became so skilled that by the mid-1930s, he had won both local and French read more
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Protesters Dressed as Marie Antoinette Roast “Melania” Film at Kennedy Center
WASHINGTON, DC — Local activists and artists gathered in 18th-century French court attire in front of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, January 29, to protest the premiere of Melania (2026), one of the most expensive nonfiction film acquisitions on record. Of the $75 million Amazon paid for the film, read more
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Short Film by Artist Alexandre Singh and Art Historian Natalie Musteata Nominated for an Oscar
Two People Exchanging Saliva, a black-and-white film written and directed by Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the live action short film category. The 36-minute film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival earlier this year, and has been making the festival rounds this fall and winter, winning various read more
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A Rotoscoped Film Underscores How Fantasy Is the Only Reprieve in Solitary Confinement
For Kiana Calloway, the brick wall became a green screen for theatrical performances and football games. For Sunny Jacobs, meditation brought her to a lush patch of grass and her children’s rooms at bedtime. And for Frank De Palma, 22 years without a mirror meant he didn’t recognize the man who finally emerged from the read more
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What Will Retirement Bring? An Animated Film for Those Dreaming of Work-Free Days
When I retire, I plan to read every morning and bake bread from scratch. I’d like to resume Spanish classes and finally become fluent. And I plan to see movies mid-afternoon, take long, leisurely walks leading nowhere in particular, and travel as much as possible. Does this sound familiar? Dreaming of retirement is one coping read more
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