...was found in personal fulfillment. If Stalin called writers “engineers of the human soul,” then good anticommunist authors should refrain from trying to meddle with the human spirit in all...
...platforms—which, in the case of hiring a more diverse set of writers, serves them well. It’s worth noting that all these sites, though they publish beauty criticism, are known either...
...of inauthenticity. Of course, fiction writers have always altered or covered up what is factual in order to reveal what is authentic. But this approach seems at odds with the...
...a women's disease — a reputation it hasn't been able to shirk since. The female shoplifter, Shteir writes, became known in those years as “the madwoman in the store”— one...
...and imagines other possible histories between Russian and Ukrainian people. 1. Followers of Nestor Makhno, the commander of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, also known as the Anarchist Black...
...turned her attention to a little-studied subject in Britain at the time: the coming of Christianity and the end of pagan practices, also known as witchcraft. Murray wrote the earliest...
Shot on May 1st 1975, while the Weather Underground was still in hiding, and released in 1976, after what would be their last bombing, this documentary could...
In the twenties, everyone had a manifesto. The most famous filmmaker of the Russian Revolution, Sergei Eisenstein, had a film-theoretical program called the Kino-Fist (Kino = Film),...
We tend to think of the relevance of films as statically contained by the time in which they were produced. Some movies are hopelessly dated, trapped in...
Ryan Trecartin's video work is hallucinatory, hilarious, occasionally terrifying and vitally post-cinematic. A featured exhibitor at MoMA PS1, MOCA and elsewhere, at 28 Trecartin is quickly becoming...
...be totally befuddled and terrified and have your mind blown by the weird art films. Journey Into the Unknown by Kerry Laitala Video stores provided that kind of thing, serendipitous...
L’INSTANTANÉISME: DOES NOT WANT YESTERDAY. L’INSTANTANÉISME: DOES NOT WANT TOMORROW. L’INSTANTANÉISME: MAKES ENTRECHATS. L’INSTANTANÉISME: MAKES PIGEON WINGS. L’INSTANTANÉISME: DOES NOT WANT GREAT MEN. L’INSTANTANÉISME: BELIEVES ONLY IN...
A real masterpiece. Hour of the Furnaces got some play on the Festival circuit in 1968/9, but was largely condescended as a "third world issues" movie, which...
Art film or weaponized instructional video? Mind Control Made Easy (or how to become a cult leader), by Carey Burtt, reminds us of Foucault's description of Anti-Oedipus...
Global Uprisings is an independent news site and documentary team that have spent the last three years traveling to sites of social revolt and producing short, incisive...
There's no dystopia quite like a failed utopia. Taking place ten years after a victorious Social Democratic revolution in America, Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames shows just...