Pretty much as soon as sound became a component of cinema (or even earlier, if your definition is elastic enough to include things like Man with a Movie Camera), people started making essay films, pairing montage and narration to explore...
Independent American filmmaker Nina Menkes–whose first film in over a decade, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, debuted at Sundance earlier this year–is having a moment, with retrospectives at BAM in New York City and at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. Among the...
