Dan Schindel
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Past articles by Dan:
New York’s Trans Sex Workers Tell Their Stories
The Stroll is not just a chronicle of trans life and activism in the 1980s and ’90s, but also of urban “renewal” in the 21st century. → Read More
We’re Screwed, But It’s Okay
Rachel Lears’s new film To the End is optimistic, perhaps to a fault. → Read More
Todd Haynes Discusses New Velvet Underground Doc
The director sat with Hyperallergic for a conversation about the making of his new film The Velvet Underground. → Read More
What Does AI Dance-Pop Sound Like?
The Computer Accent follows the pop-dance band YACHT as they use AI to help compose their 2019 album Chain Tripping. → Read More
A Trip Through the Many Worlds of David Bowie
With Moonage Daydream, director Brett Morgen sought to let Bowie’s music and philosophy hit in a whole new way, immersing audiences in an IMAX experience. → Read More
Documentary on Women's Freedom of Movement, or Lack Thereof
Courtney Stephens's documentary on women's travels from the 1920s to '50s presents not just personal glimpses into daily life a century ago but also documents of colonialism. → Read More
Funny Pages Mocks the Idea That Hardship Makes Art More Authentic
Owen Kline’s directorial debut follows a privileged teenage artist who decides to impose some grittiness on his life to improve his work. → Read More
Celebrating William Klein’s Long, Multi-Hyphenated Career
William Klein: YES, a career retrospective at the International Center of Photography, is good for aficionados and neophytes alike. → Read More
Netflix’s Half-Assed Adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman
Despite faithfully recreating the story of the beloved comic book series, the TV show lacks the verve of the original. → Read More
The Wrongful Murder Conviction That Ignited a Pan-Asian Activist Movement
Arriving amid increased anti-Asian racism and continuing discourse about the inhumanity of its prison system, this documentary is a strong historical gut punch. → Read More
The Book Club That’s Been Discussing the Same Proust Novel for 20 Years
At first, simply watching people read In Search of Lost Time might seem dull; by the end, you'll be itching to read or reread it yourself. → Read More
The Art of Making It Is a Film for Those Who Haven’t Been Paying Attention
The documentary has impressive access to contemporary art world figures, but comes up with no good solutions for the many problems it discusses. → Read More
The First Feature Documentary Made Entirely in Virtual Reality
We Met in Virtual Reality raises the bar for VR filmmaking, and has an optimistic vision for the potential of the metaverse. → Read More
Jordan Peele’s Nope Is Funny, Intelligent, and Horrifying
Another equally thrilling and smart ride from the rising director, subtly tackling intersecting ideas about “seeing” and “being seen” along the way. → Read More
A Crash Course in Method Acting
Hyperallergic talks to historian Isaac Butler and curator Livia Bloom Ingram about how performance technique evolves and what is and isn’t method acting. → Read More
A Documentary Unravels the Danger of Being Black and Pregnant in the US
Aftershock, directed by Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt, explains the disproportionate rate of Black maternal mortality in the US. → Read More
A Meta Remake-of-a-Remake Muses on the State of Cinema
Stuffed with references to historical and contemporary film, Olivier Assayas’s miniseries version of his own 1996 film Irma Vep is sometimes too clever for its own good. → Read More
An Emotional Documentary Follows Two Cattlewomen on the Range
Set in remote Idaho, Bitterbrush is a satisfyingly different kind of Western. → Read More
Reimagining the Archives of a Revolution
Portuguese filmmaker Filipa César, whose work is the subject of an online retrospective hosted by Metrograph, seeks to help Bissau-Guineans preserve the memory of their revolution. → Read More
Mad God Is a Descent Into Hell, in the Best Way Possible
Made over the course of 30 years by special effects legend Phil Tippett, this stop-motion animated epic is a feast of creatively horrifying imagery. → Read More