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Widely recognized for its presentation of moving-image arts that define and influence our time, the Walker Film/Video program oversees a 21st-century cinema and a vast collection of global and avant-garde films, documentaries, and video works. More

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OK, Enough, Goodbye

“At once humorous, melancholy, sardonic and wistful. … Using an appealing slice-of-life observational approach, the directors have crafted a warmhearted though not rose-tinted indie tale.” —Variety More

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Matt Levine & Jeremy Meckler

A Year in Close-Up: Still Dots and the Blue Velvet Project

November 29 was a momentous day: After one year and 102 blog posts, Still Dots was complete. Since December 13, 2011, we’d been pulling one frame for every 62 seconds of screen time in Carol Reed’s The Third Man and writing a biweekly analysis of it… More


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Scott Foundas

Noah Baumbach: Visibly Human

In his films, Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Kicking and Screaming) punctuates “cruelty with tenderness, always taking pains to make sure his characters remain visibly human,” writes Village Voice critic Scott Foundas, who… More

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Kathie Smith

Handmade Spirits: Chris Sullivan’s Ethereal Animated Worlds

Fifteen years in the making, Chris Sullivan’s painstakingly hand-crafted film Consuming Spirits peers into twin ethereal realms, lurking familial ghosts and the inebriating spirits that haunt its… More

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Matt Levine

A Poetic Archaeology of Cinema: The Films of Bill Morrison

In Bill Morrison’s films, time appears as both a historical process and as an autonomous, existential force to which all matter falls prey. Whether treating the march of time as fodder for a… More


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Matt Levine & Jeremy Meckler

A Year in Close-Up: Still Dots and the Blue Velvet Project

November 29 was a momentous day: After one year and 102 blog posts, Still Dots was complete. Since December 13, 2011, we’d been pulling one frame for every 62 seconds of screen time in Carol Reed’s … More

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Genevieve Yue

Films the Color of Blood: On The Renegades

“The official cinema all over the world is running out of breath. It is morally corrupt, esthetically obsolete, thematically superficial, temperamentally boring.” So declared the New American Cinema Group in a manifesto sent out in… More

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Ben Stork

Filming at the Site of Urgency

The opening of Jem Cohen’s Occupy Wall Street newsreels—shot through the window of a Brooklyn subway car—uncannily echo a series of videos from two years earlier. Cell phone footage of an Oakland train platform documents the… More