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fromFilmmaker Magazine
6 days ago

"Fake Stuff Makes Me Feel Sick": John Wilson on The History of Concrete

John Wilson's feature blends philosophical, meandering nonfiction, chance human interactions, and deadpan voiceover to explore concrete, creativity, and odd cultural digressions.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The History of Concrete review John Wilson's first movie is an absurd triumph

John Wilson's The History of Concrete extends his observational, meandering documentary style into a 100-minute feature blending humor, urban meditation, and celebrity absurdity.
Film
fromIndieWire
1 week ago

'The History of Concrete' Review: John Wilson Illustrates How to Get Over a Beloved TV Show with a Moving and Hilarious Meditation on Death

John Wilson links concrete to disparate cultural details through collage and associative humor, imposing meaning onto chaos.
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

John Wilson at the Met

That arresting image was made from a tiny portrait of the artist's brother, expanded to monumental public proportions, that announced the Met's "Witnessing Humanity" exhibit, a Wilson retrospective that continues through February 8. In the picture, the brother's brow is steadfast, his gaze grave and alert, mouth and chin resolutely composed; perhaps no Black face has ever so effectively stared down the self-regard of Manhattan's Museum Mile.
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fromwww.amny.com
3 months ago

John Wilson at The Met: Witnessing humanity and defying erasure through his canvas | amNewYork

John Wilson's art confronts American racism through monumental, politicized imagery shaped by personal experience, Mexican muralists, and modernist structural figuration.
Independent films
fromNew York Post
8 months ago

Exclusive | HBO star's new 44-seat micro-moviehouse screens film oddities, classics in offbeat NYC space

Low Cinema, a micro-moviehouse in Ridgewood, Queens, is filling a void in the local film scene with diverse screenings.
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