Collective

The writer, actor, and comedian talks about Harlan County USA and how it captures the power of collective action, praises the incomparable beauty of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and shares how he was inspired by the complex portrayal of a...

Jun 17, 2014 — The brutal lessons of Vietnam remained in America’s national consciousness for a generation. September 11 gave us collective amnesia, and they’ve had to be learned again.

Michael Harriot is an award-winning writer, founder of the journalism collective ContrabandCamp.com, and author of the New York Times best seller Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America.

Adam Piron (Kiowa/Mohawk) is a filmmaker and programmer based in Southern California. He currently serves as director of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program and is a cofounder of COUSIN, a collective supporting Indigenous artists expanding the form of film.

Adrian Jonathan Pasaribu is the chief editor and cofounder of Cinema Poetica, a collective of film critics, activists, and researchers in Indonesia. He lives in Jakarta and works as a freelance writer.

So Mayer is the author of Truth & Dare (2023), A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (2020), Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (2015), and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love (2009), and the coeditor of...

Jul 22, 2026 — This year’s Gala and Special Presentations will include new work from Tim Blake Nelson, Takashi Miike, Wayne Wang, and Anton Corbijn.

Jul 21, 2026 — New restorations of the first three features premiere this weekend, followed by a retrospective next month.

Jul 17, 2026 — This week brings conversations with Jeffrey Wright, John Woo, and the members of three cinema collectives.

Jul 14, 2026 — In May of 1962, when Martin Ritt arrived in the Texas Panhandle town of Claude to begin filming Hud, he may have sensed that his career was about to change. Hud would be Ritt’s ninth feature but his first personal...