“Hope was always the key to it,” directed Max Walker-SIlverman says of Rebuilding. “I was fairly conscious at the outset of writing this film: I’m going to create something for myself to give myself hope.” Continue reading Max Walker-Silverman on REBUILDING
Rural Massachusetts, 1991: Eleven-year-old Lacy sneaks out of her summer camp bunk, crosses a field under the darkness of night, enters the barn where the phone is, and calls her mom. “I’m going to kill myself if you don’t come … Continue reading JANET PLANET
All stories have to begin somewhere. Brimstone & Glory, a documentary about Mexico’s week-long National Pyrotechnics Festival, takes place in modern-day Tultepec, but its origins lie on the other side of the Atlantic, in Portugal specifically, at the end of the … Continue reading BRIMSTONE & GLORY
When Talking Heads frontman and all-around art-rock god David Byrne was contacted by a color guard team looking to license one of his songs, he hadn’t the foggiest idea what color guard was. The swirling flags, the twirling batons, the … Continue reading CONTEMPORARY COLOR
I want to tell you a story about a story,” writer/director/performance artist Laurie Anderson tells the audience. She recounts the time she spent in the hospital as a child after breaking her back. Anderson tells it in a rather typical … Continue reading HEART OF A DOG
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