IMPULSE

An interview I conducted with filmmaker couple Po Yu Chen and Yue Jiang, part of a series about immigrant artists' experience with the U.S. immigration system.

Published in Spanish by Fintualist

In the last few years, Video Game Music has grown not only as a genre but a global trend.

IMPULSE

Interview with Jinane Mrad on the mission and work of the Jocelyne Saab Association.

IMPULSE

It is difficult to find a purer form of documentary than the Beirut Trilogy, which fulfills exactly the promise of the medium’s name. The three films document glimpses of the life of a cosmopolitan city – once known as “the Paris of the Middle East”

The Spool

On March 18, eight days after the Academy Awards ceremony, Variety published an article with the following headline:

Video Librarian

It’s something of a shame that Billy Preston never starred in a western.

Video Librarian

The film does not directly concern itself with His Holiness’ public image nor frame itself through an editorial lens. Rather, it sits back and lets the man himself tell the story.

Video Librarian

At the beginning of Craig Boreham’s erotic drama Lonesome, we see a young man (Josh Lavery) hitchhiking down a rural highway. We don’t know who he is or where he’s going, just that he’s a cowboy.

Aesthetica Magazine

If you have ever cut out images from a fashion magazine and pasted them together into a collage, then Under Your Smell at Photo Elysée, Lausanne, will feel somewhat familiar.

Video Librarian

The Swiss film producer Walter Saxer made his first trip to the Amazonian jungle in Peru in 1977. He worked there for five years as the lead production manager for Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, which is well-known today for its troubled production history.

Projektor

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) opens with a striking close up of Mary Magdalen’s face — her eyes absorbing, her gaze unwavering. It contrasts with a close-up of Joseph, who looks shaken and befuddled.

Slant Magazine

The first episode of the fourth and final season of Atlanta sees its main characters returning from a European tour and lost in their own city.

Slant Magazine

A recent USA Today article presents Paper Girls as part of a summer wave of ‘80s nostalgia, which is somewhat odd given that only the first of its eight episodes takes place in the decade.

Los Angeles Times

We’re gripping a standing pole on the Metro Red Line that carries us from Hollywood to Union Station. It’s the first time in a while that I’ve been home…