The State of Short Films
Cinema was born as a short form. Most early films were mere seconds long. Throughout the history of celluloid, countless…
Film Festivals
Chlotrudis
Several couples chat casually, surrounded mostly by empty red velvet seats inside Brookline, Massachusetts’s Coolidge Corner Theatre in early November….
Sound Unseen
The line to see The Last Word at the Minneapolis Oak Street Cinema snakes down the block, splitting in two…
Sex, Cats and Rock & Roll
If anyone captured the spirit of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, it was the codger who hoisted a placard…
Spice Market
I am white and alone in a darkened room at night with over four hundred Dominicans in New York City….
Mind the Gap
Although “development hell” is the norm for most independent filmmakers, the experience of Jonathan Caouette stands apart. The thirty-two-year old…
Baltimore, Maryland
Languishing in the shadows of bigger-shouldered cities like Washington and Philadelphia, Baltimore is burdened with something of a municipal chip…
Surprise Ending
After the Apocalypse is a black and white science fiction film shot on 16mm, about five survivors trying to cope…
Chaos Below Canal
New York City: the one place on earth that may, at least in the eyes of its own citizens, come…