In this film essay—named after the one collection of film critic, Manny Farber—Chris Petit uses digital technology to explore cinema, the great art form of…

David Cronenberg takes on the subject of virtual reality, as it speaks to both the present and the future, and turns it on its head…

Soviet cosmonauts, and their experiences: what it’s like to float above the world, both physically and psychologically; the awkwardness of trying to eat, brush teeth,…

Austrian director Michael Glawögger shot this provocative, disturbing, exhilarating film in Bombay, Moscow, Mexico City and New York. His subject is the people who live…

In this 1993 video, an inquiry into the vanished dream of the Soviet Union through the cinema of director Alexander Medvedkin, the great Chris Marker…

This almost unknown film offers a stark, poetic re-creation of the 1962 meltdown at SL-1, a nuclear reactor in Idaho Falls. The filmmakers explore every…

Orson Welles’s adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel about the fall of an “old money” Indianapolis family at the turn of the century resulting in part…