The inspiration for Day at the Fight, Stanley Kubrick’s debut film, was a photo-essay the then-20-year-old shot for Look two years earlier. Alex Singer, Kubrick’s collaborator on the film about boxer Walter Cartier, discusses the newly released contact sheets.

Scott Foundas is returning to criticism after three years as a programmer at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Most recently at the Walker to moderate Regis dialogues with Harry Belafonte and Lawrence Kasdan, he’s the new film writer at the Village Voice.

How do we ascribe value to an object? Filmmaker Miranda July’s event The Auction examined this process as she prodded audience members about their seemingly useless objects. Following the show and tell, July auctioned the objects off to the highest bidder.

Artist Tacita Dean is concerned about the current state of film: “Fuji has announced that it will stop producing film in March, and Kodak is in Chapter 11 for insolvency. I have been campaigning for Unesco to make film a heritage protected site.”

The European Parliament is honoring two Iranians—banned filmmaker Jafar Panahi (This Is Not a Film) and jailed (and hunger-striking) human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh—with the Sakharov Prize, praising them for putting “the fate of their country before their own.”

Run Wrake, the talented British animator whose Rabbit was part of our Expanding the Frame series in 2007, has passed away at age 47 after a battle with cancer. A BAFTA nominee who worked with U2 and Oasis, Wrake was the father of two.

Think Kickstarter is the sole domain of up-and-coming creators? Think again: Oscar-winning director David Fincher (Fight Club, Seven) has taken to the funding platform in hopes of raising $150,000 to make a showreel for his latest project.

In honor of its designation as a 2012 European Capital of Culture, Guimaraes, Portugal, built Centipede Cinema, “16 tubes that funnel into an enclosed screening room.” It’s the brainchild of architect Colin Fournier, artist Marysia Lewandowska, and London firm NEON.

“Arguably the year’s most visionary film with true indie cred,” as Graham Fuller puts it, Beasts of the Southern Wild was nominated for two Gotham Independent Film Award awards Friday, but inexplicably not for best feature.