The David Bowie classic soundtracks a surreal tale of adolescent wonder Catalan director collective CANADA talk about their film, Sound and Vision, an homage to late pop icon David Bowie: “The curators of the David Bowie Is exhibition, which is currently on show at Barcelona Design Museum, invited us to shoot something for
Lewis Khan captures hope and despair at the Atherstone Ball Game in Warwickshire, finding male vulnerability and belonging in the medieval football tradition A medieval ancestor of modern football, the Atherstone Ball Game takes over the main street of the Warwickshire town in an annual tradition held every Shrove Tuesday since 1199. A
Living in New York City, Rtusha Kulkarni resists the pull of home and family expectations to make it work against the pressures it presents As a young filmmaker – born in India, raised in Minnesota, and now based in New York – Rtusha Kulkarni has built a relationship with the city reflecting that of
Realizing her aspirations against a backdrop of rigidity, São Paulo-born multidisciplinary artist, dancer, movement director and model Black Pearl de Almeida Lima evolved through creative expression in a landscape limited by its constraints. Now based in Berlin, but embracing her trans identity against the strict gender norms of Brazilian society, she reflects on
Animation legend Hayao Miyazaki kicked off 2025 by sharing a special illustrated message to Studio Ghibli fans, celebrating the Year of the Snake. The celebrated filmmaker, who won his second Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for The Boy and the Heron in early 2024, has made an annual tradition of illustrating the year’s
Dancer turned director Ezra Hurwitz collaborates with Ailey II artistic director Francesca Harper, featuring movement as museum pieces against the Whitney Museum of American Art's striking architecture for short film Echoes of Ailey. Commissioned to celebrate Edges of Ailey, the film accompanies the first large-scale exhibition on the life and enduring legacy of
Capturing the evolving landscape of Little Haiti in Miami, Peruvian director Diana Larrea honors a neighborhood fast disappearing to redevelopment for experimental documentary Querido Pequeño Haiti (Dear Little Haiti). As gentrification and the mark of Miami’s housing crisis dim the district’s vibrant shopfronts and Latin influence, Larrea celebrates the Haitian and Latinx communities
Born on the Southside of Chicago, Steppin’ is a dance rooted in its community – growing out of neighborhood parties, and the tight social scene that expanded around it. Evolving with soul music as a collision of ballroom and swing, with parallels to the jitterbug and the hustle, the Chicago Steppin’ scene lives
Occupying a territory between the fantastical and the supernatural, the scary and the soft, Indonesian visual artist Natasha Tontey has developed a convention-defying storytelling approach, rooted in her environment and her own indigenous experience. Born in Jakarta with Minahasan family ties, and now based between Jakarta and Yogyakarta, her work processes historical, mythical, and ancestral knowledge through a
Overtaking the U.S. in its urgency, Vancouver finds itself at the epicenter of Canada’s opioid epidemic, against the ongoing fentanyl crisis and an upturn in drug-related tragedies. With thousands lost to accidental overdose each year as a direct result of its toxic drug supply, British Columbia became the first province to decriminalize drug
