For many filmmakers, short films are their entrance into the industry. What is it that makes a memorable short? How do we take a big idea and chisel it down to a moving and noteworthy 10 or 15 minutes ...
These days, moviegoers rush to watch films about battling superheroes, smooching tennis players, and existential fashion dolls. For much of movie history, however, film fans loved to watch epics.
In Fight Like a Girl, a young Congolese woman escapes from captivity and becomes a professional boxer. The opening night film at this year’s Vancouver International Black Film Festival, it’s one of ...
In this series of short films curator Christine Riding discusses different aspects of the sublime with curators and researchers, and contemporary artists Douglas Gordon and Bill Viola. A number of the ...