In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises, “Magnasanti” exposes the hellish consequences of top-down civic design. In his new documentary, John Wilson explores how New York City is creeping closer and closer to realizing this fictional metropolis.
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Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process...
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In this new video essay, filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe delves into the dread-inducing mood and tone of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s modern horror...
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A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.
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Lou Reed was wise to chronicle a concert by his early-'80s band, featuring lead guitarist Robert Quine and bassist Fernando Saunders. Reed had used...
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In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets and pokey transportation system were a source of...
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The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot...
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An oral history of Artists Space, the legendary New York artists organization. Told through the voices of the artists, critics and curators who...
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An essay style film in the vein of Orson Welles' "F For Fake" and Jon Jost's "Speaking Directly". From 2011 to 2013, filmmaker Kristian Day randomly...
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Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in "Shine A Light," a look at The Rolling Stones." Scorsese filmed the Stones over a two-day period at...
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This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.
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A depiction of New York’s subway as an absurd obstacle course – revealing a system that shuts many out of a city in motion.
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