Sisu

Oct 31, 2024 — The BAM series focuses on filmmakers who “turn the visual language of the silents to new purposes.”

Dec 1, 2023 — Hlynur Pálmason is an artist and filmmaker who was born in 1984 in Iceland. He began his career as a visual artist and went on to pursue an education at the National Film School of Denmark. His debut feature, Winter...

Jan 3, 2023 — A work of pure, rigorous enchantment, the final film in Terry Gilliam’s “Trilogy of Imagination” employs old-fashioned technical wizardry to bring about its wall-to-wall visual astonishments.

Sep 28, 2022 — This melodrama, made by André de Toth in his native Hungary, anticipates the unease of the director’s postwar Hollywood films with an array of radical stylistic choices and jarring visual tensions.

Sep 26, 2022 — For this new illustration, Spanish artist David de las Heras combined his signature use of bold colors with the lush style of French postimpressionist Henri Rousseau, a key visual influence on Atom Egoyan’s 1994 film.

Jul 26, 2022 — A seductive brew of decadence, dada, and drag, the German director’s fantastical films embrace the possibilities of female visual pleasure.

Feb 11, 2022 — The director discusses the making of his 1979 cult road movie, Radio On, which is now streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel, and the influence of New German Cinema on his visual style.

Oct 14, 2021 — Voir is “a new documentary series of visual essays celebrating cinema.”

Jan 14, 2020 — Born in Fortaleza, Brazil, Karim Aïnouz is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, and visual artist. His first feature, Madame Satã, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2002. He has also directed Love for...

Feb 13, 2019 — The utterly delightful new film is the ninety-year-old artist’s guide to her films, photography, and visual art.