Born March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia, Mary Flannery O’Connor made her public debut at the age of 5, when a Pathé cameraman from New York came to photograph her chicken. The chicken walked backward. If it didn’t, you could … Continue reading FLANNERY
It’s been 10 years since the Social-Democratic War of Liberation: “The most peaceful revolution the world has known.” So opens director Lizzie Borden’s incendiary 1983 film, Born in Flames—a guerrilla-style collage of archival footage, documentary, and scripted narrative that’s as relevant … Continue reading BORN IN FLAMES
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That’s the idea behind Lois Weber’s 1915 film, Hypocrites, a morality play that finds parallels between the medieval period and 1910s America. It’s also the thought that races through your brain … Continue reading HYPOCRITES
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about a few movies that premiered at the SXSW Film Festival that you can soon see via streaming (Introducing, Selma Blair and WeWork: or the … Continue reading
All the images were all very simple images, but I just wanted to record things that I didn’t see people recording and painting at that time. You know, I wanted to record my own history—or a different history—and that’s what … Continue reading WOJNAROWICZ: F**K YOU F*GGOT F**KER
The poor dope—he always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool. —Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard Selma Blair wanted to be a writer. Then her English teacher saw her act and told her, “You’re an actress.” Not … Continue reading INTRODUCING, SELMA BLAIR
Wildflowers, released in 1994, was Tom Petty’s fastest-selling album. It went triple platinum in just nine months and became the album Petty cited as his best. And considering the personal turmoil Petty went through during the making of Wildflowers, its success … Continue reading TOM PETTY, SOMEWHERE YOU FEEL FREE
A woman in a scarlet dress with a large hoop skirt strolls around an empty soundstage. On the stage is her spacious apartment. The apartment has several rooms, each one decorated with bright colors and paintings of nude women. Thanks … Continue reading THE HUMAN VOICE
History has a nasty little habit of being reductive. Life unfolds with such a multitude of specificity it’s damn easy to be overwhelmed by it all. So we generalize, we categorize. Anything that doesn’t fit is extricated. Then, after enough … Continue reading WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR
