Film

From The Jazz Singer to Nick Cave

Film as social experiment, and learning how to communicate without speaking

The Los Angeles-based filmmaker discusses cities, soundtracks and landscapes

Conflict, communion and making human presence resonate in the landscape

The new wave of social-realist storytelling in American cinema

The Portuguese artist, while best know for his paintings, also made moving image works

Remembering Chris Marker

For 35 years, Ericka Beckman has been making films which combine choreographed set pieces and ‘designed camera movements’ that anticipate the work of a new generation of artists

In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the films that have influenced them

Since the early 1960s, Peter Watkins has explored film’s potential as a medium of communication and catharsis 

Redmond Entwistle on the making of Walk-Through (2012), a film about Michael Asher’s ‘Post-Studio’ class at CalArts.

Melancholy and entropy haunt the French artist’s films and photographs

Bikesploitation and art

How a monumental ruin is turned into gravel, in the Brazilian artist’s show ‘Dois Reais’ (Two Reals, 2012)

frieze invites artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige to write about the images that have informed their practice

The New York-based artist’s latest video installation, Plymouth Rock

Fabio Mauri's Ideology and Nature was re-performed at Venice this year. Here, Barbara Casavecchia examines the artist's enquiry of art and ideology

‘You Killed Me First: The Cinema of Transgression’ at the Kunst-Werke in Berlin, is a first-time museum presentation devoted to a group of New York underground filmmakers of the 1980s. To this end the institution has painstakingly converted its exhibition spaces into a kind of über-gritty dungeon, vying, it seems, to deliver as authentic a backdrop as curatorially feasible to present 18 films for a strictly 18+ audience. The theme park-like recreation of the once sketchy, run-down Lower East Side featured touching details like professionally executed out-of-control smudges of black paint covering all windows, minutely stopped short from spilling over to the walls.
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The hybrid genre of the film novelization

In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice