Collective horizons: a new series at Anthology Film Archives showcases the multifaceted work of Palestinian filmmakers and sisters Emily and Annemarie Jacir
Present pasts: for the final episode of our Fanon on Screen series, filmmaker and artist Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and writer Adam Shatz discuss Sarah Maldoror’s Monangambeee and Assia Djebar’s The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting
Next man up: for part 3 of our Fanon on Screen series, editor and organizer Cheryl Rivera and writers Clifford Thompson and Adam Shatz join to discuss Ivan Dixon's The Spook Who Sat by the Door
On fire: for part 2 of our Fanon on Screen series, Maysles Documentary Center executive director Kazembe Balagun, scholar Brent Hayes Edwards, and writer Adam Shatz join to discuss Gillo Pontecorvo’s period epic Burn!
Radical specters: the cinema has found a rich repository of inspiration, images, and ideas in the life and work of the anti-colonial writer and revolutionary
Screen time: incarcerated writer Sara Kielly offers a snapshot of a weekend’s worth of movie-watching at New York State’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
Righteous outlaw: The Goldman Case is a brilliant example of a courtroom drama that eschews familiar tropes, placing an individual subject into the context of a larger, historical subject in scrupulously open-ended fashion
Flying home: filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri and writer and programmer Greg de Cuir Jr. delve into the ways in which digital media represents and responds to colonialism, diaspora, and violence
Buy now, pay later: at this year's festival, films by Radu Jude, Courtney Stephens, and Wang Bing explored advertisements, infomercials, and the lives of factory workers in an attempt to pull back the veil of the market
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