Film
PLEASURE IN DISSONANCE:
Crossroads 2015
By James Hansen
The latest edition of San Francisco Cinematheque’s Crossroads Film Festival boasted an eclectic lineup of artist-made film and video that, at its best, pushed together the outer limits of narrative logic, experimental abstraction, and documentary record.
FROM ABOVE:
The First NYC Drone Film Festival
By Anna Gurton-Wachter
The pilot excuses himself to walk the red carpet where flashes and news cameras abound. He pulls a young stylish man into the spotlight and declares the young man the “pioneer” who first enlightened him to the worlds of cinematic beauty made possible by drones. This young pioneer is Randy Scott Slavin, the founder of the first New York City Drone Film Festival.
CINEMACHINERY:
Show and Tell with Lary 7
By Fabio Roberti
Lary 7 is a New York City-based multimedia artist who has been making art in a variety of media for the better part of 40 years and counting: photography, film, performance, installations, music, sound recordings, and more.
Docs in Sight: Systemic Ills, Dark Fetishes, Drugs, and Guns at the Tribeca Film Festival
By Williams ColeThe Tribeca Film Festival has grown exponentially since it was largely founded as part of the rebound from a destroyed lower Manhattan post-9/11. And, as New York City has gone into gentrification overdrive, TriBeCa (Triangle Below Canal for those unaware) is no longer a desolate area associated with artist lofts and underground clubs represented in the now unthinkable 1985 Scorsese film After Hours (though, to be fair, that was mostly SoHo).
Windows, Mirrors, and Frames in Akram Zaatari’s 28 Nights and a Poem
By M. T. NiagaraThere are many different windows in Akram Zaatari’s newest film 28 Nights and a Poem... Zaatari places these devices front and center, juxtaposed with immanently human hands, in a film that is a meditation on practice, life, and work based on the filmmaker’s experiences moving the life’s work of Saida photographer Hashem el Madani to the The Arab Image Foundation in Beirut.
In Conversation
GINA TELAROLI with Phil Coldiron
Gina Telaroli has produced feature films (the quasi-narratives Traveling Light (2011) and Here’s to the Future! (2014)), still-image essays, and traditional criticism (dossiers on Allan Dwan and William Wellman), all while working full-time as an archivist, and the streams of her various modes of cinematic activity have finally run together in the form of her video collages.
