The artist’s science fiction musical Carnelian debuted at Oklahoma’s Sovereign Futures symposium.

More than a quarter century after its original release, US audiences can finally watch Hideaki Anno’s mecha anime masterpiece in theaters. 

Ichirō Kataoka and Kumiko Ōmori tell Hyperallergic about the modern-day conventions and challenges of the Japanese art of narrating silent films.

Julio Torres’s directorial debut takes a fantastical approach to depicting the very real trials of immigration and creative work.

This April: video essays on Palestine, AI, Nathan Fielder, and more.

A partnership between the museum and Mubi will make a selection of films in this year’s biennial available to watch online from the US, UK, and Canada starting April 12.

On the Adamant documents how art allows patients to translate confounding experiences into imagery — what one might call the poetry of the everyday.

Girls State follows a group of young women participating in the mock political program in Missouri just before the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

Quentin Dupieux's new comedy Daaaaaalí! is about an artist trolling the media — and how the media deserves it.

A new documentary explores the scandals surrounding the 1964 show, illuminating the US government’s obsession with its international image.

The Museum of the Moving Image’s annual experimental cinema event features several films that remix archival materials.

A short documentary captures the later years and reflective musings of the iconic photographer, who passed away last year at the age of 82.

The first installment of PBS’s American Masters tells the story of a steadfast Black sculptor who overcame countless barriers.

Donald Duck, Disney theme parks, and other excitement make up this month’s video essay roundup.

The show is an adaptation of Naked by the Window, the 1990 book about Mendieta's career and Carl Andre’s suspected role in her death.

Kimi Takesue’s new documentary nudges us to consider whether we in the audience differ all that much from the tourists whipping out their iPhones.

The women-led Retrospective section of the Berlinale gives second-wave feminism a fresh look.

Lassnig’s short films perfectly present the artist’s uncanny talent for marrying morbidity and frolic, rigor and wantonness.

Brett Story’s Union demonstrates how the tedium of labor organizing can sometimes catalyze electric triumphs.

The Bicycle Film Festival boasts more than 40 shorts and features spanning South Korea to Havana, from e-bike food delivery stories to rural gravel races.

Newly restored, G.W. Pabst’s 1929 film provides a bleak, unsettling account of a showgirl’s ruin at the greedy hands of competing male suitors. 

This year’s Sundance Film Festival offered an array of documentaries spanning cultural vantages and historic eras, about women who span the globe.

Luis Buñuel believed that surreal moments were necessary to achieve a true documentary style, as they reflect the fantastical, mysterious nature of everyday reality.

Crenshaw Dairy Mart's inaugural film festival this weekend features documentaries, music videos, works in progress, and more.

A new book traces the development of Marguerite Duras, one of the 20th century’s greatest cinematic minds.

Two recently restored films by women directors offer differing snapshots of America of the 1970s and ’80s.

Gurvinder Singh’s film artfully chronicles a movement in protest of India’s debilitating farm acts.

Kaouther Ben Hania’s feature film blurs the distance between the personal and cultural, individual and systemic.

Opening this Saturday, the event will screen five feature films and 37 shorts representing 22 countries and regions.

With new movies, shows, and such coming at a slow pace in January, here are some engaging video essays to keep you busy.

Two Sundance films ask all the wrong questions about artificial intelligence technology and its attendant issues.

Sky Hopinka, Susan Sarandon, and Ken Loach are among the signatories of a letter urging festival participants to raise awareness of Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.

Brian Eno, Christopher Reeve, and Frida Kahlo are among the subjects of the many artist documentaries at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Amazonas, o Maior Rio do Mundo (1918) highlights the 20th-century rubber boom and enslavement of Indigenous people through a propagandic lens.

The lineup of 28 feature, documentary, and short films and discussions with filmmakers kicks off on January 10.

This month, a range of video essays about tech-related subjects and history.

Stop-motion animation, the poetic story of a snowman, and other picks highlight the artistic potential of the classic genre.

What does it mean for a film addressing overtly political themes to remain apolitical?

The event, running now through December 10, first launched in 2021 as an alternative to the government-sponsored Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival.

The Japan Society will screen six iconic films that explore the years 1912–1926, “a new modern era” marked by progressive reforms and a blossoming of the arts.

"Filming in a kitchen is like working with a ballet or theater company," the filmmaker told Hyperallergic in an interview for the release of his new film Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros.

The latest episode features a copycat of artist Doug Aitken’s mirrored house and Emma Stone as a misguided White woman experiencing Native art.

Director Nicole Newnham chronicles the rise, fall, and disappearance of the iconic feminist sexologist.

This month, we feature videos on criticism, artificial intelligence, social media, and more.

The strike has ended, but not everyone is satisfied with the tentative contract’s stipulations for the use of artificial intelligence in film and TV.

Israelism follows two young Jewish Americans whose perception of Israel changes once they see how the nation treats Palestinians.

The short film The Family Statement centers on private messages between the Sacklers unsealed as part of Purdue Pharma’s 2020 bankruptcy case.

How to Have an American Baby exposes a Chinese business that cares only for the bottom line, and a private US hospital system more than happy to serve patients paying cash.

Cultural groups and artists are withdrawing from the film festival over allegations of institutional censorship of the Palestinian liberation movement.

Paul B. Preciado’s film prizes creative passion over pathology, and trades individual trauma for collective and individual transcendence.