Stories about Experimental
Arts Forecast: And here’s the real kicker…
'Stomp' still stomps. Plus: Lavender Country, Cuban neon, Recombinant Fest, Patrick Cowley, a drag 'The Wall,' more.
Screen Grabs: South Asian cinema, transgender visions, amateur porn…
Three diverse festivals open up. Plus: Soviets and Surrealists, Synonyms, Collisions, more in cinemas this week.
Transgender visions in urgent times
The 22nd Transgender Film Festival comes with supernatural powers and a punk political attitude—right when we need both.
Can a museum exhibit capture Burning Man?
Surreal, lysergic ingredients are there, but Oakland Museum's 'No Spectators' show misses the essence of the thing in the desert.
Screen Grabs: A 14-hour movie with a 40-minute ‘middle finger’
Plus: Nazi comedy 'Jojo Rabbit,' a celebration of Jacques Tati, the burning of the South Bronx, more in cinemas
Screen Grabs: News of the world at the Arab Film Fest
Plus: Hola Mexico Film Fest, Berlin & Beyond showcase, Almodóvar's latest, Eddie Murphy's Dolemite, The Dead Center, more
There’s a ‘Mad God’ at the Drunken Film Fest
30 years in the making, visual effects wizard Phil Tippett's short movie finally screens. (Yes there are cocktails.)
Screen Grabs: From ‘The Joker’ to Japan…
Japanese Film Fest, Drunken Film Fest, tributes to Harry Partch and Zheng Junli, hot new Takashi Miike flick, and more in cinemas
Ficks’ Picks: The best of the Toronto International Film Fest!
Screen gems from Portugal to India, directors from Noah Baumbach to Deborah Stratman—and one wily Joker.
Review: 20 years in, SF Electronic Music Fest doubles down on avant-garde
From eerie ritual to lush bassoon, the pioneering event brought out the enduring experimental side of the local scene.