Feminist film scholar Lori Jo Marso redresses misconceptions of the gendered gaze, parsing through the lessons we can learn from our exhilaration and unease.

After a documentary questioned its attribution, World Press Photo said today that it would no longer credit former AP photographer Nick Út for the Vietnam War image.

“A Body to Live In” takes a multilayered perspective on artist Fakir Musafar’s life to creatively excavate his role as a pioneer of extreme body modification.

One of a new documentary’s most intriguing strands is the way that brand seemed to eclipse the man, according to his own family.

A new film extricates the movement from the grips of mainstream and conservative media narratives and places it back in the hands of its organizers.

Was it a crime? A prank? A work of art? A new documentary unveils the full story of an artist collective’s secret mall apartment, and other ephemeral actions. 

On the occasion of a new documentary, the artist talks with Hyperallergic about the legacy of Maus, comics techniques, Gaza, collaboration, and more.

The two-part documentary asks us to rethink what we know about looting, art restitution, the art market, and who the war’s heroes and villains really were.

The winners of this year’s Best Documentary Feature Film urged world leaders to “stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people.”

From Cauleen Smith’s trilogy on volcanos to Philippe Parreno’s intimate exploration of Goya, here’s what to watch.

“The best film I could make was one that only I could tell as his son,” Tadashi Nakamura told Hyperallergic about legendary director Robert Nakamura.

The artist tells Hyperallergic about how the isolation of COVID-19 led to a streaming series set wholly within the bounds of his studio.

The trials of late-in-life romance and a photographer's chronicle of Black life under South African apartheid anchor the 15th edition of DOC NYC.

Each of the director’s films adapts a folktale, short story, or novel, or pays tribute to a historical figure — but never in a straightforward way.

“I wanted to question power,” Shiori Ito told Hyperallergic regarding her new documentary. “The system was always the focus.

Co-directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie discuss the making of their documentary Sugarcane, told from the perspective of Indigenous survivors.

The annual festival returns for its 13th edition this August, kicking off with Shatara Michelle Ford’s Black, queer roadtrip film inspired by Paris, Texas.

Revising Reality argues that the world as we know it is our creative output so our memories cannot help but be continually edited.

“I always had the feeling that there isn't just a single thing to do,” the artist told Hyperallergic. “I enjoy mixing text and images, real life and invented scenarios.”

Following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, filmmaker Yance Ford was struck by the question: “What, exactly, do the police exist to do?”

Ichirō Kataoka and Kumiko Ōmori tell Hyperallergic about the modern-day conventions and challenges of the Japanese art of narrating silent films.

The event, running now through December 10, first launched in 2021 as an alternative to the government-sponsored Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival.

"Filming in a kitchen is like working with a ballet or theater company," the filmmaker told Hyperallergic in an interview for the release of his new film Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros.

The strike has ended, but not everyone is satisfied with the tentative contract’s stipulations for the use of artificial intelligence in film and TV.

Guzmán sits with Hyperallergic for a conversation about the lost promise of Salvador Allende’s presidency, enduring personal and collective trauma, and the continued possibility for a new revolution.

In Brooklyn, a screening of the new documentary Joonam brought the city’s Iranian diaspora together in a celebration of art, culture, and identity.

Elizabeth Lennard, director of the 1985 documentary Tokyo Melody about the famed experimental musician, discusses the film and her memories of Sakamoto.

Long before Greta Gerwig’s movie, artists were critiquing Barbie’s influence on women — and Mattel didn't always approve.

The Five Demands, now playing in New York, feels more pressing than ever in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action.

Anger plumbed the depths of the dark side of humanity and of the film medium’s potential to make both angels and demons.

A festival opening this week at Film Forum highlights NYC-based, critically acclaimed films throughout the decades, from Scorsese to blaxploitation.

The Thai director discusses his dreamlike films in a conversation with Hyperallergic ahead of his career retrospective in New York City.

A founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective, Akomfrah has explored Black life in Britain and beyond through acute observational films.

There's room for everyone in Barbie's world, from Flavor Flav to the cast of Succession.

Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera depicts how the artist’s life and ideas cemented her place as a champion and influencer of culture.

The theater’s Ciné-Real film club aims to preserve the beauty of celluloid in a consistently digitizing world.

In the artist’s first feature-length film, Ladies Lair Lake, the choice to not have children is presented as valid and dignified.

Jafar Panahi was arrested last July, after he participated in protests at the notorious Evin prison.

A festival dedicated to Davinci’s The King Show celebrates the LA artist's trippy remixing of stock footage, Hollywood cinema, and theater.

Letters Unwritten to Naiyer Masud attempts to peer into the late writer Naiyer Masud’s concealed world.

The director sat with Hyperallergic for a conversation about the making of his new film The Velvet Underground.

While sex is clearly in its cultural flop era, intimacy with ourselves and with others is being deftly portrayed in body horrors.

The Turkish Culture Ministry has demanded its funding back on an award-winning independent film after a smear campaign by conservative media.

Whether documentary, experimental, or somewhere in between, there is no shortage of intriguing Dominican films through which to consider life on the island.

Vanessa Albury, whose eco-friendly ceramic sculptures help revive filter-feeder populations, is raising funds to complete her first film about the project.

The 26th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival’s Philippines retrospective highlights early documentation of the country, local responses to the Marcos dictatorship, and contemporary work.

Tsai’s style is the opposite of boring; in demanding the viewer’s attention, he allows for incredible moments of human connection and discovery.

The story centers on a fictional TV painter who “has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke.”

Artist Jesse Krimes served six years in federal prison, creating artworks while incarcerated using the bare-bones materials at his disposal.

Red Night weaves together influences from horror cinema, pop culture, and political theory.