Film

‘Black people don’t fear the dead, it’s the living we worry about’

Lynne Tillman on the clash between real life and expectation

A recent celebration of the American filmmaker provided a rare opportunity to come face-to-face with a major figure of underground cinema

The prolific artist championed filmmaking through the lens of feminist theory and queer politics

‘To Carolee, drawing, like painting, was as visceral as breath,’ writes Emma McCormick-Goodhart

The pioneering US artist was best known for using painting, film, performance and installation to challenge ideas around sexuality and gender

From a travelogue drenched in the memory of colonialism to a bleak charting of European history in black and white, the festival presents urgent works for uncertain times

The highest-grossing film of 2019 pits a Chinese-led international coalition against the forces of cosmic destruction

The film adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel imbricates joyful moments within a fraught political and racialized landscape

Screened at Frieze Los Angeles, ‘Take Over (L’Internationale)’ trades in the anthem’s political charge for an elegant rehearsal

Hear from expert insiders in the city’s cultural landscape, from art to entertainment

In a series of Frieze Film screenings at Frieze Los Angeles, dark impulse triumphs in Madani’s animations

A rare screening of ‘The Dilapidated Dwelling’ (2000) at the Barbican shows why Keiller’s films should be compulsory viewing

Narrative is often the conduit for racist ideology, particularly in a Hollywood that favours ‘feel good’ narratives of black life; avoiding it altogether reads, then, like a protest

The multimedia art ‘experience’-cum-independent Soviet state recruited a cast of 400 to live on an enormous film set for years

The Hollywood Reporter’s Deputy Editorial Director explores art and the entertainment industry - and gives her Oscar predictions

A 1979 televisual essay by the cultural theorist offers insight into black politics and representational struggle in the British media

‘Your songs are always full of colour and samples, beats and melodies, dizzying rhythms and more melodies still’

‘It offers up a lifetime’s worth of thinking about the incommensurate relationship between filmic time and time as it is lived and experienced’

Scheming dealers, demonic sculptures and filthy lucre: in Dan Gilroy’s Faustian tale, art takes murderous revenge