Bedatri D. Choudhury
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Documentaries About Remembrance and Cultural Celebration in the 2022 BlackStar Film Festival
This year’s program celebrates the resilience and joy in worldwide struggles against erasure and confinement. → Read More
A Youthful Documentary Memoir Both Enthralls and Frustrates
For both good and bad, first-time filmmaker Rebeca Huntt is “the lens, the subject, the authority” of Beba. → Read More
Filmmaker dream hampton Culls Memories From Detroit's Flooded Basements
Her short film Freshwater is now playing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. → Read More
There Are Now Not One But Two Documentaries About the Salvator Mundi Saga
Both The Lost Leonardo and Savior for Sale dig into how museums and galleries are not merely complicit with the unregulated art-industrial complex, but are necessary to it. → Read More
How Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Handles the Pressure of Competition
Garrett Bradley’s Netflix docuseries explores the tennis star as a vessel for other people’s love and aspirations. → Read More
Satyajit Ray's Portraits of Flawed Masculinity
Best-known in the West for works like The Music Room and the Apu Trilogy, here are some lesser-discussed Ray movies. → Read More
Dots for Days: Kusama Blooms at the New York Botanical Garden
Cosmic Nature invites viewers to celebrate the artist’s joyful, creative energy after a year of loss and grieving. → Read More
“Coded Bias” Challenges Artificial Intelligence’s Racist Impulses
Artificial intelligence is a danger to our civil rights when it replicates historical qualities of any real-life bias. → Read More
The Ugly History of Forced Sterilizations in Women's Prisons
The new documentary Belly of the Beast is an investigation into modern-day eugenics in the US. → Read More
The Boldly Feminine Gaze of Hiba Schahbaz
Schahbaz’s large-scale paintings, on view in her latest exhibition Dreaming, assert the right to claim and occupy space as a woman. → Read More
Did You Know Helen Keller Was a Socialist?
The documentary Her Socialist Smile reconstructs Keller from an icon of vague, feel-good platitudes to the fiercely political woman she truly was. → Read More
A Celebration of Black, Brown, and Indigenous Stories
The BlackStar Film Festival consistently resists forces that try to define culture in majoritarian terms. → Read More
Exposing Rodrigo Duterte's War on the Free Press
Director Ramona Diaz and journalist Maria Ressa discuss their struggles to make A Thousand Cuts, a film about the autocratic president of the Philippines. → Read More
Reclaiming the Legend of Bruce Lee
The new ESPN documentary Be Water seeks to both reassert Lee's legacy and humanize him. → Read More
A Queer, South Asian Utopia Comes to Life in This Graphic Novel
Bishakh Som’s Apsara Engine imagines what happens when femmes, as Donna Haraway writes, “make kin, not babies.” → Read More
A New Swedish Romance Drama For Netflix
After "Quicksand" and "Snabba Cash", Netflix is commissioning another Swedish original, "Vinterviken 2021" → Read More
Cinemark Lays Off And Furloughs Staff Amidst Plans Of July 1 Reopening
Cinemark has laid off 17,500 of its hourly employees and furloughed its corporate staff. It intends to reopen some of its theaters on July 1 → Read More
Hollywood Braces Itself For A 40% Decline In Revenues In 2020
A report by Gower Street Analytics predicts a a low $ 7.09 billion box office revenue for North America → Read More
“Crip Camp” Brings Visibility to the History of Disabled Activists
Camp Jened produced many of the activists that fought for disability rights. → Read More
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