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Hyperallergic FilmUSATo Be Alone With Your Thoughts in '70s New York Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of self-harm. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
Hyperallergic FilmUSAThis Iranian Documentary Wasn’t Meant to Begin This Way I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies (2026) poster (all images courtesy Film at Lincoln Center) Mani Haghighi’s documentary, I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise…
Hyperallergic FilmUSAFaith and Its Contradictions in “9 Temples to Heaven” Whether scrolling past AI-generated “paintings” of Donald Trump as Jesus or videos of a mosque inside a shopping mall , the spiritual and holy coexist with the profane and commercial today.
Hyperallergic FilmUSA13 Art Films to See at DOC NYC I’ve never put much thought into how I want to be portrayed after I die. Perhaps I’d opt to be plastered on Etsy mugs, tea sets, and journal covers, à la Frida Kahlo (though I doubt I’d have many…
Hyperallergic FilmUSASara Flores Paints What the World Stands to Lose A long canoe floats onscreen to the throbbing hum of insects; a frail woman expertly strips bark from a tree. She boils it slowly, a small tamarin monkey curled on her head like a crown.
Hyperallergic FilmUSAThe Ongoing Experiment of Millennium Film Workshop Millennium Film Workshop is a rare space in New York City that champions self-expression and experimentation in filmmaking.
Hyperallergic FilmUSAA Portrait of an Artist as a Dominatrix Olivia Wilde plays Erika Tracy, a contemporary art superstar-slash-sociopath (is there a difference?) in the super-fucked-up love story that is I Want Your Sex (2026) — and “fuck” is an operative…
Hyperallergic FilmUSABarbara Hammer Through Her Own Lens Barbara Forever (2026) sets itself apart from most biographical documentaries early on by eliding the first three decades of its subject’s life.
Hyperallergic FilmUSASix Films on Art and Resistance at BlackStar Film Festival PHILADELPHIA — Held from August 6 to 9, the BlackStar Film Festival marked its 15th anniversary this year with 91 films underscoring its ongoing commitment to “a cinema for liberation.” That vision…
Hyperallergic FilmUSA“American Doctor” Is an Indictment of US Leadership and Media In a new documentary on Gaza, three humanitarian physicians from the United States navigate the horrors of genocide as they struggle to treat civilians in a buckling, under-resourced hospital in Khan…
Hyperallergic FilmUSAMaori Karmael Holmes Looks Back on 15 Years of BlackStar This year, the United States semiquincentennial converges with BlackStar Film Festival’s 15th edition.
Hyperallergic FilmUSAThe Thorny Politics of Protest Photography In a 2013 essay , author Barrett Swanson asked, “At what point does the aesthetic excellence of the photograph eclipse the depicted event, or, worse, distract the viewer from inquiring into what…
Hyperallergic FilmUSATell Us, O Muse, of Elon Musk's Racist AI Version of "The Odyssey" As audiences flock to theaters to watch Christopher Nolan's reimagining of Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War, Elon Musk has begun waging a battle of his own against the director.
Hyperallergic FilmUSAA Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” This is not Homer’s Odyssey . Let’s get that out of the way. As a Homerist, I had to remind myself of this throughout a film that reduces a narrative of 12,000 lines to just under three hours of…
Hyperallergic FilmUSAFour Centuries Later, We Still Don't Get Caravaggio The fascination with Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio continues unabated, and for good reason. Not only was Caravaggio the most impressive Italian painter since the death of his namesake…
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