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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Gentle Assault on the Senses
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor, 2015. Photo courtesy The Match Factory Five years after winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, director Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns with...
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“A Minimalism of the Frame”: Filming the Female Face in Todd Haynes’s Carol...
Todd Haynes’s Carol, 2015 Photo: Weinstein Company In the opening scene of Carol, the camera follows a young man called Jack (Trent Rowland) through the streets of 1950s Manhattan and into a...
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On Acid and Death: The Psychedelic Love Story of Ram Dass and Timothy Leary
Gay Dillingham’s Dying to Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary. 2014 ©Dying to Know Nearly two decades in the making, Dying to Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary began with a single conversation. After Leary...
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Moving Image Commissions #2: Marcel Broodthaers
Marcel Broodthaers, Pipe et Formes Academiques, 1969–70 The second installment of the Walker’s Moving Image Commissions launch February 17 with premieres of Shahryar Nashat’s Present Sore and Uri...
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Figure and Wound: The Human Body in Shahryar Nashat’s Present Sore
Shahryar Nashat, Present Sore, 2016. Walker Moving Image Commission Shahryar Nashat’s Present Sore (2016, video, 9 minutes), presented on the Walker Channel from February 18 through March 18, 2016, is...
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A Yard, a Tank, a Whale: The Conditions of Uri Aran’s Two Things About Suffering
Uri Aran, Two Things About Suffering, 2016. Walker Moving Image Commission Uri Aran’s new video, Two Things About Suffering (2016, video, 16 minutes), presented on the Walker Channel from February 18...
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Navigating Fact and Fiction: Chloé Zhao on Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Chloé Zhao’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me, 2015. Photo courtesy artist For her debut feature, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Chinese-born filmmaker Chloé Zhao turned her camera on the beautiful but...
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“It Gets Dislocated”: The Evocative Cinema of Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman. Photo courtesy Babette Mangolte In tribute to the late Chantal Akerman, the Walker presents the three-film series Chantal Akerman: 1950–2015, March 31 through April 3 in the Walker...
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Moving Image Commissions #3: Bruce Conner and Leslie Thornton
Leslie Thornton, They Were Just People, 2016 Leslie Thornton’s They Were Just People is the third installment in the Moving Image Commissions, a series that addresses works by key artists in the...
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Comprehensive Horrors and Technological Consequences: Bruce Conner and Leslie...
Leslie Thornton, They Were Just People, 2016 Leslie Thornton’s They Were Just People (2016) is the third installment in the Moving Image Commissions, a series that addresses works by key artists in the...
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From Archive to Art House: Two Ruben/Bentson Films Mark Metrograph Opening
In March 2016, a new independent movie theater opened its doors on New York City’s Lower East Side with two films from the Walker Art Center’s collection among its initial screenings. A two-screen...
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Stay Ready: Lizzie Borden on the Post-Revolutionary Future of Born in Flames
Honey in Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames. Courtesy of Lizzie Borden and Anthology Film Archives, New York Released in 1983 during Reagan’s presidency and Ed Koch’s tenure as mayor of New York City,...
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In Which Hip-Hop Ends Up Saving Itself: On Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style
Wild Style mural with Fab 5 Freddy and Rock Steady. Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style, 1983. Photo courtesy Martha Cooper Considering its status as a founding document of one of the twentieth century’s...
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What is a Contemporary Collection? Thoughts on the Walker Moving Image...
James Richards, Radio at Night, 2015. Walker Moving Image Commission The Walker Moving Image Commissions is an online series in which five artists responded to selections from the Ruben/Bentson Moving...
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New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival: 10 Years of Changing Boundaries
Blast Theory, A Machine to See With, documentary, 2011. Photo: © Walker Art Center To commemorate ten years of innovation and experimentation at the New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival Program, the...
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Ballroom Is Not for Sale: Fatha Jazz Bordeaux on Twin Cities Ballroom
Fatha Jazz Bordeaux with Motha Couture Bordeaux, Gia Marie Love, Sara Jordenö, Semaj Bordeaux & Company and others at the Walker Art Center, July 21, 2016. Photo by Angela Jimenez In 1990 Madonna...
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Close-Up: The Walker Remembers Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami, 1998. Photo: Walker Art Center Archives Martin Scorsese once praised Abbas Kiarostami as representing “the highest level of artistry in the cinema.” Responding to those words several...
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Unstaged Events: Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera Gets a Hip-Hop Score
Though distinguished by native tongue and nationality—not to mention nearly a century—filmmaker Dziga Vertov and musician Spencer Wirth-Davis have a lot more in common than might be immediately...
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The Wars on Drugs and Terrorism Intersect: Do Not Resist’s Craig Atkinson on...
Still from Craig Atkinson’s Do Not Resist (2016). Photo courtesy Vanish Films “They need to stop giving these boys these toys, ’cause they don’t know how to handle it.” These words, spoken by a young...
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Carmen Herrera Right Now: Alison Klayman’s Portrait of the Artist at 100
Carmen Herrera in Alison Klayman’s The 100 Years Show. Photo courtesy the artist Collected by major museums worldwide—including MoMA, the Walker, and the Whitney, which opens an exhibition of her early...
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