Guest post by Shawn Coughlin. In an interview with Film Independent, director Ondi Timoner recalls her decision to approach Mapplethorpe as a scripted drama rather than a documentary. She explains, “I wanted to bring [Robert Mapplethorpe] alive for you. You know, I felt like, ‘We want to see this man and we want to see… Read more »
Guest post by Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert. I first saw the work of Swoon in the summer of 2008. I was in London on a small undergraduate research grant for my thesis. I was writing about the sudden attention being given to an emerging genre called Street Art. This was art that existed mostly outdoors… Read more »
Guest post by Jenny McComas. The inaugural exhibition of Der Blaue Reiter at Munich’s Galerie Thannhauser in December 1911 helped catapult avant-garde artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc to international fame. Although often described as German Expressionists, the artists of the Munich-based Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) were an international group. The… Read more »
Get to know the people behind your favorite university cinema in our new blog series, “Meet Your IU Cinema Staff.” Using the format of our exclusive filmmaker interviews — all of which can be found on our YouTube channel — we’ve crafted a questionnaire for our staff to help introduce them to you, our audience…. Read more »
Guest post by Maria Hamilton Abegunde. Unless otherwise noted, quoted lines are from Latasha N. Nevada Diggs’ poem “Maybe.” When We Gather is ritual. When you watch it, Hear the Wind. She say, Daughter, leave what wounds you. Touch the Earth. She say, Daughter, reclaim what is whole. Smell the Sea. She say, Daughter, heal…. Read more »
The Parisian surrealists of the 1920s had opinions about everything. About painting. About poetry. About politics. Their ideas came of age in the early decades of cinema so, of course, they had opinions about that too. In surrealist fashion, their taste was often capricious, categorizing directors into who was worth watching and who had succumbed… Read more »