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On the right, a man sits in a red kayak with his back to the camera. He wears a green shirt. A white rope is tied to the back of his kayak and reaches out of the frame. He is on a lake heavily grown in with green plants. The water is blue and still. There is a mountain in the distance.
Photo:Rachel Keane
  • Reviews, thINKpieces

All That History in Those Very Seats

Emilee Lord

Steve Paxton remembered

Yellow lights and gauzes of yellows and pinks set the stage. Seen from behind in silhouette, a belly dancer looks over her left shoulder and down. Her hands are raised slightly above her head.
Photo courtesy of the artist
  • Reviews

Monologue more than dance

Emilee Lord

A film about a woman's power unwinding, written from multiple women’s voices.

Photo: Spyros Stefanou
  • Reviews

A Study in Setting

Ellen Miller

At Leah Stein’s FILM WORKS screening, setting took center stage.

Photo credit: Alexander Diaz
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A body/ a response

Ellen Miller

A dancer inspires a filmmaker, and a filmmaker inspires a poet.

Photo: Tali Keren
  • Reviews

What do we carry in our dances?

Kristen Shahverdian

American evangelicals performing Israeli folk dances against the backdrop of the military base.

Photo: Brian Mengini
  • Reviews, Write Back Atchas

Existing in a Trapped World: A Write Back Atcha

Miryam Coppersmith

Striving to stay human in tosses, spins, and synchronized flash dances.

Photo: Richard Abstrak Soto
  • News

Hip Hop Artist Raphael Xavier Wins Grant to Produce Short Film

Darcy Grabenstein

Film grant propels hip hop artist from stage to street, breaking to biking.

Photo: Gareth Gatrell
  • Reviews

Jingle Jangle: What It Feels Like to See Yourself at Christmas

Gregory King

Jingle Jangle radiates Blackness; Black families, Black aspirations, Black skepticism, Black community, and Black magic.

Photo: Aysha Hamouda
  • Reviews

Deer in the Digital Headlights

Christina Catanese

A film of technonatural angst, TrashBot uses myth to approach an understanding of our scrambled modern bodies.

Photo: Laura Nespola
  • Reviews

Dance Replaces Talking in the Experimental Film Redoubt

Kristi Yeung

The latest film from acclaimed artist Matthew Barney is beautiful, boring, yet subtly transformative.