Video: “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” by Country Joe and the Fish
. Performed at Woodstock in 1969, this satiric song became an anthem in the movement against the Vietnam War. Country Joe McDonald has performed the song countless times since, and … Continue reading
Frida Kahlo: Sketch of Diego
Growing up from his Asiatic-type head is his fine, thin hair, which somehow gives the impression that it is floating in air. He looks like an immense baby with an … Continue reading
Video: Maya Angelou on Con Men
. In this animated video produced by Blank on Blank studios, Maya Angelou tells a wonderful yarn about two con men who set up a white racist businessman to buy … Continue reading
Video: Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck visit the art museum
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are being chased by Elmer Fudd and escape into paintings in a museum.
Video: “Nuggets” (a short animated film about addiction)
This short animated film by Andreas Hykade, the Director of the Animation and Visual Effects program at Germany’s Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, is a fable about addiction. Things start off innocuously, with … Continue reading
Video: In Praise of Chairs
In cinema, one of the great things about detailed production design is that it pays off in unexpected ways. In this short video essay, Tony Zhou explores the weird possibilities … Continue reading
Video: Euripides – Choral Song from ‘Orestes’
The earliest surviving musical document preserves a few bars of sung music from fifth-century BC tragedian Euripides’ play Orestes. You can see the papyrus fragment below, written around 200 BC … Continue reading
Video: Auteur in Space
— This short video by Kogonada is a poetic homage to the influential Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986). Image from Ivan’s Childhood, 1962 — Image from Nostalgia, 1982/83 — Image from The … Continue reading
Video: A Conversation with President Obama and The Wire Creator David Simon
President Obama hosts David Simon (the creator of The Wire) at the White House, and the two men have a frank conversation about the TV show and the war on … Continue reading
Video: David Lim’s animated tribute to HBO’s The Wire
From director, designer, and animator Elliot Lim comes an animated tribute to his “favorite show of all time,” HBO’s The Wire — a sentiment that he shares with President Obama, … Continue reading
Video: The Solar System to Scale
In this engaging short film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, a group of friends build the very first accurate-to-scale model of the solar system complete with each planet’s orbits … Continue reading
Video: Lynne Ramsay – The Poetry of Details
What can one detail tell us about a scene? If you’re Lynne Ramsay: absolutely everything. In this short video essay, Tony Zhou considers the poetic possibilities of cinema in the … Continue reading
Video: Gail Langstroth — In the beginning
. in the beginning wind shadow struggle stone I first visited the City of Culture, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in March of 2011. Despite the grey and damp of … Continue reading
Video: Rita Hayworth is Stayin’ Alive
This video mash-up by the German auteur known as “et7waage1” brings together a collection of clips featuring Rita Hayworth dancing to “Stayin’ Alive” by the BeeGees…. I know, I know… … Continue reading
