Tag: Lost

  • 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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  • 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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    Painted by Hand, a Stop-Motion Film Eulogizes a Lost Childhood Home

  • Art-World Giants We Lost in 2025

    As the year winds to an end, we cannot move forward without remembering who we’ve lost. David Lynch, a filmmaker so revolutionary that his style became a new standard. Frank Gehry, the sculptor of skylines. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, the multi-hyphenate force of Indigenous aesthetics. Alonzo Davis, who was one of the first Black gallerists in read more

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