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The First Animation Is Film Festival Showcases the Best of Today’s Animation
The festival presents exceptional films in all styles of animation, from anime to stop-motion.
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Cobbling a Movie Together from Surveillance Footage
Artist Xu Bing’s first feature film Dragonfly Eyes tells a story of love and obsession through footage culled entirely from videos uploaded to Chinese streaming sites.
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Standout Shorts from the Toronto International Film Festival
The festival has a choice selection of experimental works under its Wavelengths banner, from a documentary about Standing Rock to a film on black activist poetry in Detroit.
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An Avant-Garde Documentary About 500 Silent Films Rescued in the Yukon
Bill Morrison’s newest work, Dawson City: Frozen Time, tells the story of an unlikely triumph for film preservation and history.
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Watching Human Dreams Disintegrate in Photos of the Ultra-Rich
Lauren Greenfield’s Generation Wealth, a book and exhibition of the same name at the Annenberg Space for Photography, documents the out-of-control growth of the one percent.
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The Indulgence of an Anthology of Erotic and Horror Comics
Mirror Mirror II, the second annual collection from 2dcloud, is like a porn stash you’d find in the cupboard of a medieval demon.
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Transhumanism and the Promise of the Bodiless Mind in the Original Ghost in the Shell
Rather than make the series feel dated, identity issues in the cyber age make the 1995 film seem extraordinarily prescient.
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“Documentary Reporting Has Become So Rigid”: Adam Curtis on Storytelling Today
The journalist and documentary filmmaker discusses his recent film HyperNormalisation and past projects, as well as his plans to make a documentary on the West’s relationship with Russia.
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A Startlingly Intimate Graphic Novella About the Black Plague
Julia Gfrörer expresses the fantastical and the medieval in the mundane.
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After His Sudden Death, Recalling the Piercing Work of Comic Book Artist Steve Dillon
Dillon, who’s best known for his work on the Vertigo series Preacher, could draw subtle faces and searing action equally well.
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An Animated Glimpse of Hokusai’s Life Through His Daughter’s Eyes
A new animated biopic offers insight into the career and work of Hokusai through the life of his daughter, a fellow artist in Edo-era Japan.