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Michael Blair

Scratching the Surface

By Michael Blair
October 7, 2024
Close reading: Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me and Jem Cohen's Little, Big, and Far are both richly attuned to the surfaces of things

Film Comment Recommends: Chess of the Wind OST

By Michael Blair
June 24, 2024
Spiritual unity: the recently released soundtrack pulls from avant-garde jazz and traditional Persian music to create a new audio work just as madcap, ambiguous, and avant-garde as the original film was, almost 50 years ago