Ricky D'Ambrose

Chantal Akerman

Ricky D'Ambrose

Chantal Akerman

Interview with the Belgian director discussing her films from the 1970s and her mother’s influence on her work.

The Stranger

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Jeremy Cherson, Jenna D'Angelo

An anonymous young man appears unexpectedly in the Brooklyn apartment of a young couple, promising the two graduate students a more authentic, less insular lifestyle with him in Berlin.

Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday

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Caroline Luft, Jessica Pinfield

An American art collector’s estate plans to build a glass house that will permanently memorialize the collector’s many prints and paintings. The spot selected—several acres of undeveloped parkland in upstate New York—was the site of a young woman’s murder, the circumstances of which have been exploited for political purposes by the founder of a far-right populist party called National Advance.

Gina Telaroli

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Gina Telaroli

Interview with the director of "Traveling Light" (2011) about her work as a filmmaker, critic, and programmer.

Six Cents in the Pocket

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Michael Wetherbee, Tallie Medel

This hypnotic work of contemporary cinematic modernism—something like Robert Bresson in Park Slope, but not exactly—concerns a young man apartment-sitting for friends as talk of a plane crash ominously lingers in the air.

Four Americans

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Interview with a group of indie filmmakers—Alexander Carver, Benjamin Cotty, Daniel Schmidt.

Pilgrims

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Michael Wetherbee, Jeremy Cherson

In a city afflicted by a series of increasingly violent protests, a dying young man is visited in his apartment by a refugee, a political radical, and a priest.

The Sky Is Clear and Blue Today

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A.S. Hamrah, Caroline Luft

An American director, hired by German television to make a film about 9/11, re-stages a controversial photograph taken along the Brooklyn waterfront soon after the collapse of the World Trade Center.

The Cathedral

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Monica Barbaro, Brian d'Arcy James

An only child's meditative, impressionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.

Spiral Jetty

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Bingham Bryant, Caroline Luft

An applauded New York intellectual hires a young archivist to whitewash her late psychologist father's reputation by eliminating a forbidding, potentially incriminating paper trail.

Notes on an Appearance

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Keith Poulson, Tallie Medel

A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks.

Roll Call

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Twenty-seven members have voted "aye," eleven members have voted "no."

Bruno Dumont

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Bruno Dumont

The director of "Li'l Quinquin" discusses his filmmaking.