Carl Joseph Papa does not use animation as decoration. In his films, it behaves more like an instrument of pressure.…
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What do we owe the dead? And what do the dead owe us? Often, those meaty, existential questions are easy…
Director Tao Zhang’s “Against the Flow†— which played at his year’s Tribeca Festival — isn’t an easy film to…
Earlier in the 25th Tribeca Festival I covered two animated shorts, “Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe!†and “Saba”. They were both…
The funny thing about a phone video is how little ceremony it asks from us. We take one because a…
A father can become two different people in a son’s memory. There’s the man everyone else praises, and there’s the…
In a wordless opening sequence that launches “The Currents†(2025) designer Lina (Isabel Aimé González-Sola) graciously receives a professional award…
The Philippines has become so used to absence that we sometimes forget how strange our family arrangements can look from…
Death leaves behind a room nobody quite knows how to enter. People can sit with you, feed you, distract you,…
When the Maguindanao massacre happened in 2009, I remember making a conscious effort not to watch any footage from it.…