“I use technology in order to hate it properly," pioneering video artist and self-identified cultural terrorist Nam June Paik says while explaining his playful...
Maryam Keshavarz's semi-autobiographical feature The Persian Version is an energetic family comedy chronicling three generations of Iranian women in the US. An...
The narrative feature debut of Erica Tremblay traverses much of the same ground as other films set on and around reservations, highlighting poverty, a spirit t...
Featuring a great premise from which to build a franchise, YouTube creators Danny and Michael Philippou's directorial debut Talk To Me is a refreshing retread,...
The history of film is filled with fascinating symmetries, with Edison’s early kinescopes like Fred Ott’s Sneeze and The Kiss resembling the kinds of stories f...
A frank celebration of a pre-Giuliani New York, Kristen Lovell and Zachary Drucker's The Stroll explores a unique period from the inside. Lovell––an actress, a...
A poetic ode to the blue ridges of Central Appalachia, King Coal often evokes an IMAX educational film in its scope, space, and presence. The film explores the...
A film that rewards patience, The Tuba Thieves, despite its title, is not a quirky heist picture but rather a meditation on the presence and absence of sound f...
A sharp relationship satire that proves the more things change, the more they stay the same, Sophie Barthes' The Pod Generation imagines a world of, to borrow ...
A film as convoluted as its title, To Live and Die and Live is a poetic exploration of a new Detroit facing the same problems as the old one. Rust Belt cities ...
John Fink is a New York City area-based critic, filmmaker, educator and curator. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Buffalo International Film Festival.
