A Little Heap for Dara Greenwald
by Rachael RakesFilm
Just a few days after the artist and activist Dara Greenwald passed away, a project to upload nearly all of her video work to Vimeo was close to completion.
NOT RECONCILED: Ben Wheatley's Kill List
by Phil ColdironFilm
Once, a long time ago, the director only needed a train to terrify his audience. Soon enough, audiences got hip to the whole artifice thing and the image alone was no longer enough. One history of cinema is the history of finding novel ways to scare a group of people sitting in the dark.
COUNTER PROJECTIONS: PAUL SHARITS at Greene Naftali Gallery
by Benjamin Schultz-FigueroaFilm
I worked for a year at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative just before it left its location in the Clocktower Gallery. The majority of my time there involved cleaning and inspecting films, and while generally speaking, this was a pretty tedious task, it was fascinating to spin certain films through the rewinds and imagine what they would look like projected.
