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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

The Year of the Broken Mirror

Contemporary films and art reflect America’s crises, blur fact and fiction amid A.I. and political revisionism, and urge activism over passive reflection.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago

Two new films take the act of looking at art as their structuring principle

Consisting of titles and descriptions of works from antiquity to today that depict the Black female form, Robin Coste Lewis's poem Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015) is, in its rolling invocations of unnamed slave girls and shards of looted statuary, both exhibition catalogue and litany of instrumentalisation. A reading of the poem, in a sanitised and objective voice, serves as the soundtrack to a walk through the Musée du Louvre in the French director Alice Diop's short film Fragments for Venus (2025),
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fromThe Atlantic
3 months ago

A Movie Touching One Raw Nerve After Another

A former paramilitary vigilante single father faces a brutal present-day government, making his paranoid isolation and reactions appear justified and urgent.
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