Film

Soap-opera small talk and speech as a gesture

The politics of pants

GIFS as readymades; finding inspiration in Hollywood film

An interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky

Has Hollywood primed us for total surveillance?

The virtual realities of Spring Breakers and The Bling Ring

Films about place and ‘denatured nature’

Film director Nicolas Roeg talks to his friend, the artist John Stezaker, about collage, editing and memory, and film’s ability to ‘trap shadows’

The 55th Venice Biennale

Theatricalizing the design process online

T.J. Wilcox talks to Kirsty Bell about his latest video project, In the Air, which opens at the Whitney Museum in September

The recent activities of the Cairo-based film collective

Sifting fact from fiction

Prisoners of conscience and creative acts

Chilean director Pablo Larraín discusses the merging of fact and fiction in his films

How artists visualize political reality through the artifice of fiction

Sisyphean tasks and the failed Utopias of Modernist architecture

A new film reconstructs Félix Guattari’s unproduced sci-fi script

For 20 years, filmmaker Heinz Emigholz has been documenting icons of Modernist architecture

Remembering Antony Balch, filmmaker and distributor extraordinaire