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Introducing Crosscuts
It’s been seven years since we launched the Walker Blogs, and with the release of our new homepage back in December we thought it was finally time for a refresh. You’ll notice that the design has...
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“Story of Film” Director Mark Cousins Responds to Audience Questions
Mark Cousins, director/writer/photographer of The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Two weekends ago, the Walker Cinema was host to a marathon screening of Mark Cousins’ expansive 15-hour documentary The...
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Kiarostami: Despite Filmmaking Ban, Iran’s Jafar Panahi Has Completed Another...
Jafar Panahi When we opened the remodeled Walker Cinema last June, we selected This Is Not a Film by Iranian Jafar Panahi as one our first screenings. His “film”–made during his house arrest in Tehran...
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Cactus River: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Film Debuts on Walker Channel
Cactus River, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012Courtesy the artist Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul‘s newest work, the Walker-commissioned short video Cactus River (Khong Lang Nam), makes its debut...
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“The Future Seemed a Vague and Stupid Concept”: Memory and Empire in Tabu
2012 festival favorite Tabu, by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (The Face You Deserve, Our Beloved Month Of August), will have its area premiere at the Walker this weekend. Taking its title from F....
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8-Ball: Bill Morrison
Bill Morrison, experimental film director and miner of archival moving images, arrives Thursday for a three day, nine film program in the Walker Cinema as part of this year’s Expanding the Frame. Bill...
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Interview: Chris Sullivan on Michael Jordan, Jean Piaget, and The Sopranos
Chris SullivanCourtesy Taylor Glascock I met Chris Sullivan quite by accident at the 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival. My friend and I had settled in for a screening of Thomas Vinterberg’s...
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Report from Berlin: 63rd Berlinale
This year’s Berlin Film Festival has been full of new discoveries and projects by filmmakers with whom Walker has had a long history. Now on day 7, I feel I can share a better overview of what I’ve...
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Headline Rewind: The Oscars and Ingmar Bergman
On weekends when the Walker Cinema is empty, Headline Rewind points out other worthwhile films that respond to headlines from the week that was. News Event: The Oscars As the 85th Academy Awards loom...
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Making Poetry Films: Some Discoveries
Still from Amy Schmitt’s motionpoem, which adapts Erin Belieu’s “When at a Certain Party in NYC” I’m stingy at the box office, but last week I saw Life of Pi in the theater for the second time. The...
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Filmmakers on Site: The Search for Emak Bakia’s Oskar Alegria
Director Oskar Alegria in front of the sign for his film in the Bazinet Lobby. On September 14, Walker screened The Search for Emak Bakia, with director Oskar Alegria on site to talk about his work...
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On Site: Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky (right) with senior Film/Video curator Sheryl Mousely (left) in the Bazinet Plaza after last night’s dialogue. Stephen Tobolowsky visited the Walker yesterday to screen one of his...
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Dialogue: Producer Bill Pohlad on 12 Years a Slave and Working with Steve...
Walker senior curator of film/video Sheryl Mousley, artist/filmmaker Steve McQueen, MoMA chief curator of media and performance Stuart Comer, 12 Years a Slave producer Bill Pohlad, and Walker executive...
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The Stuart Hall Project, Chronicle of Spirit
Stuart Hall at a rally, courtesy of BFI Film Forever “When I ask anybody where they’re from, I expect nowadays to be told an extremely long story,” once said the cultural theorist Stuart Hall, who died...
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Treasures of the Scopitones: Discarded Wonders
Screening this evening, Treasures of the Scopitones shows an exciting history of a rare group of music films created by North African immigrants to France in the 1960s and early ’70s. Co-director...
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Super-Rare 35mm Film Print Comes to the Walker Shortly After Director’s Death
Alain Resnais, 1922-2014 “I am never driven. Every film I’ve made has been an assignment.” —Alain Resnais In the 1950s, Alain Resnais and Chris Marker ran in the same circles as the French New Wave —...
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The Contemporary Scholar, Part One: Two Desks and Multiple Definitions
John Baldessari, The Meaning of Various News Photos to Ed Henderson, 1973 Photo courtesy Video Data Bank In the first of a series of contributions to the Crosscuts blog, the Walker’s inaugural...
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Working Terms: “Moving Image” History and Distribution
Eadward Muybridge, Baseball, Batting Plate #274 from “Human and Animal Locomotion.” Collotype on paper, 1887 Launching a new series on working terminology in contemporary art, three Walker...
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Working Terms: “Moving Image” In Practice
Steve McQueen, Drumroll, 1998 In the second installment of a new series on working terminology in contemporary art, three Walker staffers—Senior Curator of Cross-Disciplinary Platforms Fionn Meade,...
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The Contemporary Scholar, Part Two: Moving Image Essay
Tony Conrad, The Flicker, 1965, 16mm The essay is the primary form of scholarly dissemination. An investigative space where a scholar’s ideas meet an audience, the power of the essay necessarily comes...
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