At the Edge of the Woods – Kathryn Bromwich
“Santa, strega, saint, witch.” Names matter, and Laura wonders which is true of her. Is she a woman made holy by an ascetic control over her impulses, or is she a witch marked as dangerous for conceding to her impulses?
Picture Cycle – Masha Tupitsyn
PICTURE CYCLE shows us that trying to figure out a film is some of the most fun you can have with them, because for Tupitsyn, watching and analyzing film has always been an embodied practice, a practice often rooted in the personal.
Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury – Sigrid Nunez
A beloved pet serves as a singularly appropriate subject through which a story of change — epochal, mundane, or otherwise — can be told.
Mostly Dead Things – Kristen Arnett
What Arnett’s debut aspires to is the act of holding, tightly and gently all at once, to the mostly dead things, and not letting go.
The Nocilla Trilogy – Agustín Fernández Mallo
Its formal innovation and experimentation mark THE NOCILLA TRILOGY as stepping into a globalized and networked world