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Filmmaker Portrait: Joan Jonas
Born and based in New York City, Joan Jonas pioneered the use of video in feminist performance art during the 1960s and 1970s. Originally educated in sculpture and art history, Jonas found that...
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2014: The Year According to Sam Green
To commemorate the year that was, we invited an array of artists, writers, designers, and curators—from animator Miwa Matreyek and artist Alejandro Cesarco to designer Eric Hu and the Office of...
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Construction Zone as Pinball Game: Ericka Beckman on Frame UP (2005)
Still from Ericka Beckman’s Frame-UP, 2005 Speaking with the Walker’s Bentson Film Scholar Isla Leaver-Yap, New York–based artist Ericka Beckman revisits the making of Frame UP, a double-channel video...
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Alive From Off Center: Video Art in the 1980s
In the mid-1980s, television became a new frontier for independent and experimental video artists. In a unique collaboration between Walker Art Center and Twin Cities Public Television (KTCA), Alive...
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Oscar-nominated Timbuktu screens at the Walker
“Passionate and visually beautiful … Timbuktu is a cry from the heart—with all the more moral authority for being expressed with such grace and such care.” —The Guardian (UK) Abderrahmane Sissako’s...
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A Vision Workshop: The Exchanges of Stan Brakhage and Sally Dixon, Part 2
Stan Brakhage editing in Rollinsville, Colorado, 1978. Photo: Sally Dixon Friends, colleagues, and champions of each other’s respective careers, artist Stan Brakhage and curator Sally Dixon had a...
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Filmmakers in Conversation: Ruben Östlund and Force Majeure
Director Ruben Östlund during his January 2015 visit to Walker Art Center Swedish director Ruben Östlund visited Walker Art Center in January of 2015 for the Filmmakers in Conversation series to...
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Walker Dialogues and Film Retrospectives: Crowd-sourced Cinema Line-up
This summer the Walker Film/Video department will celebrate 25 years of Dialogues and Retrospectives by hosting weekly screenings in the cinema. The crowd-sourced series will give audiences the...
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Filmmakers in Conversation: The Zellner Bros. on Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
A grainy VHS of Fargo is the only solace for Kumiko, the newest protagonist from writing-directing-acting team the Zellner Bros. In a whimsical and bizarre exploration of humans’ preoccupation with...
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The Art of Conversation: Public Dialogues with Artists
Marcel Duchamp in Conversations with Elderly Wise Men, NBC, 1956 In high-contrast black and white, the opening scene of this film fades up on a large and airy room. A small man stands in the middle...
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Timeline: A History of Christopher Nolan in Nine Films, Eight Years, and Four...
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, 2014. Photo courtesy Photofest ©Paramount Pictures It’s only appropriate that Christopher Nolan’s May 5 visit to the Walker Art Center came on the heels of the...
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Notes from the Interior: Moyra Davey’s Notes on Blue
Moyra Davey, Notes on Blue, 2015, production still The first in a series of Moving Image Commissions premiered in the Walker Cinema and released online June 1 for a limited run, Moyra Davey’s new...
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Flow: James Richards’ Radio at Night
James Richards, Radio at Night, 2015, video The first in a series of Moving Image Commissions premiered in the Walker during Cinema and released June 1 for a limited run online, James Richards new...
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A Listener’s Guide to Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising
Still from Kenneth Anger’s Scorprio Rising (1964), via the Ruben Bentson Film and Video Study Collection, Walker Art Center. © Kenneth Anger A swift and dense Eisensteinian montage of leather-clad...
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The Mediatheque Expands
Jonas Mekas, Notes for Jerome, 1978 This past May, the Walker’s Moving Image department launched the Mediatheque, an interactive place to view films located in the former lecture room off the Bazinet...
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Memories of Chantal: A Projectionist Remembers an Experimental Film Icon
Installation view of Bordering on Fiction: Chantal Akerman’s D’Est (1993/1995) I must take this time to pay tribute to an amazing artist I was privileged to meet and whose work I appreciated on a very...
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Corporeality and the Prosthetic Being: Christophe Wall-Romana on the Cinema...
Jean Epstein’s Finis Terrae, 1928. Photo courtesy Anthology Film Archive Jean Epstein (1897–1953) helped to rein in a new era of filmmaking in the 1920s. Breaking from the typical theatrical narrative...
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Ousmane Sembene: Film by Any Means Necessary
Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman’s Sembene!, 2015. Photo courtesy artist. Ousmane Sembene (1923–2007), often regarded as the “father of African cinema,” changed the terms of filmmaking in Africa: to...
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Jean and Marie Epstein: The Materiality of Cinema
Marie Epstein plays the role of a crippled woman in her melodramatic script for Jean Epstein’s Faithful Heart, 1923. I met with filmmaker James Schneider to discuss his use of materials from the...
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Melodrama Askew: Tom Gunning and the Films of Jean Epstein
Jean Epstein, Coeur Fidele, 1923 Tom Gunning developed the influential concept of “the cinema of attractions” and is Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Art History,...
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