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Hell’s Paradise, Shattered Landscapes: Zhao Liang on Behemoth
Zhao Liang’s Behemoth 2015. Photo courtesy Grasshopper From shattered landscape to hospital bed to the ghost towns of paradise, Zhao Liang’s latest film, Behemoth, is a complex reflection on the cost...
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Lovesong’s Longing: An Interview with So Yong Kim
Yo Song Kim’s Lovesong, 2016. Photo courtesy Strand Releasing So Yong Kim’s fourth feature film, Lovesong, weaves a delicate tale of two women navigating the shifting terrain of adulthood while they...
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A Community to Think Through: The Origins of the Bentson Critical Group
Frank and Caroline Mouris, Frank Film, 1973. Featured in the Mediatheque BCG playlist The Politics of the Domestic, Walker Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection The Bentson Critical Group (BCG) is a...
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Where the Work Is: Walker Moving Image Commissions Three Years On
James Richards and Leslie Thornton, Crossing, 2016 Initiated in 2014, the Walker Moving Image Commissions invited five artists to create a new work to premiere online from June 1, 2015 to May 31, 2016....
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Introducing INDIgenesis: Indigenous Filmmakers, Past and Present
Missy Whiteman’s The Coyote Way: Going Back Home, 2016. Photo: Missy Whiteman “We are in the beginning of a new era in Native cinema, a place where our ancestors are given life, our voices rise, and we...
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Hans Richter: Anti-Film and Radical Dada Abstraction
Hans Richter’s Portrait of Tristan Tzara (1917) A screening of Hans Richter’s early films, including Rhythmus 21 and Rhythmus 23, will take place in the Bentson Mediatheque at the Walker Art Center on...
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Guns, Isolation, and the Lives We Lead: Tim Sutton Discusses Dark Night
Tim Sutton’s Dark Night, 2016. Photo courtesy Cinelicious Pics Tim Sutton’s Dark Night—screening April 14–16 in the Walker Cinema—shadows the lives of six people prior to a mass shooting in a cinema in...
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Stasis & Motion: An interview with Sam Hoolihan, John Marks, and Crystal...
Reflectors, by Sam Hoolihan, John Marks, and Crystal Myslajek, 2015. Photo courtesy the artists One of the most exhilarating things about working on a new commission with moving image and sound artists...
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A Demonstration for a Demonstration: Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz’s...
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Telepathic Improvisation, video, 2017, a Walker Moving Image Commission Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz’s Telepathic Improvisation (2017) is the fifth installment in the...
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Telling Time: Renée Green’s ED/HF
Renée Green’s ED/HF, video, 2017, a Walker Moving Image Commission Renée Green’s ED/HF (2017) is the fourth installment in the Moving Image Commissions, a series that addresses works by key artists in...
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