Film

Steven Zultanski on the Chicago-based cult video artist

With shades of the flâneur, the artist wanders the German philosopher’s rural retreat at Todtnauberg in a new series of short films

The most urgent works at this year’s 70th Berlinale Film Festival are about coming to terms with culture’s inherited mythologies

Premiering in the US and UK this month, Céline Sciamma’s lesbian period drama employs the myth of Orpheus to re-centre the female gaze

At the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, the artist screens the lost films of a Hollywood huckster, a reminder that the media industry runs on broken dreams

With rapid cuts, spatial leaps and sudden bursts of sound, two films at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, create a maze-like experience

With the current debate on art institutions’ reliance on private funding, the Dutch artist teaches us how to avoid becoming complicit in a company’s shady activities 

A new film documenting the destruction of an east London community centre drills into the deformation of Muslim subjects by the state

From blues to jazz to the baroque – new fiction from Claire-Louise Bennett

‘Militant Desire’, a new series of screenings at London’s Gasworks, revives consciousness-raising discussions

‘Movies don’t change, and I do, and I don’t. Memory isn’t a choice and, like everyone, I forget way more than I can recall, necessarily.’

‘Some have mattered more to the living Jalal, others to the dead one indulging in jouissance’

‘I would like to dedicate this tribute to all of Zidane’s fans (of whom I am one)’

‘At the first site, the freedom of the United States of America is honoured; at the second, the history of its immigrants is conserved’

‘No other type of cinema in recent decades has worshipped reality in this intense manner’

‘Metaphorically, wearing an eye mask bids farewell to this desire to know, instead, one must rely on something unknown’

‘It embodies the qualities of enthusiasm, enquiry and toe-curling earnestness that art can’t exist without’

‘His works are imbued with such rare emotional acuity and nuance that it is hard not to be first stunned and, then, deeply moved’

‘The Western that heroized pioneers unsettling the West was moribund. Unforgiven, an anti-Western Western, buried it.’

‘The idea of wearing them while painting is a really great image’