Hyperallergic Film
14 stories
Hyperallergic FilmUSA“The Man I Love” Wants Us to Do More Than Mourn In a scene that might be this century’s most faithful depiction of 1980s bohemian New York, a ragtag ensemble crowds around a cluttered dining room table.
Hyperallergic FilmUSANathan Fielder Is a Performance Artist in Disguise Editor’s Note: This review contains spoilers. As an art historian, it's hard not to relate what you see in everyday life to history — not in the sense that every lily pad recalls Monet or snowballs…
Hyperallergic FilmUSAKid Cudi to Write, Direct, and Star as Basquiat in New Biopic American rapper Kid Cudi took to Instagram this week to announce his hand in writing, directing, and starring in the forthcoming project JEAN, a biopic of late contemporary artist Jean-Michel…
Hyperallergic FilmUSATo Be Alone With Your Thoughts in '70s New York Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of self-harm. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
Hyperallergic FilmUSAThis Iranian Documentary Wasn’t Meant to Begin This Way I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies (2026) poster (all images courtesy Film at Lincoln Center) Mani Haghighi’s documentary, I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise…
Hyperallergic FilmUSAFaith and Its Contradictions in “9 Temples to Heaven” Whether scrolling past AI-generated “paintings” of Donald Trump as Jesus or videos of a mosque inside a shopping mall , the spiritual and holy coexist with the profane and commercial today.
Hyperallergic FilmUSA13 Art Films to See at DOC NYC I’ve never put much thought into how I want to be portrayed after I die. Perhaps I’d opt to be plastered on Etsy mugs, tea sets, and journal covers, à la Frida Kahlo (though I doubt I’d have many…
Hyperallergic FilmUSASara Flores Paints What the World Stands to Lose A long canoe floats onscreen to the throbbing hum of insects; a frail woman expertly strips bark from a tree. She boils it slowly, a small tamarin monkey curled on her head like a crown.
Hyperallergic FilmUSAThe Ongoing Experiment of Millennium Film Workshop Millennium Film Workshop is a rare space in New York City that champions self-expression and experimentation in filmmaking.
Hyperallergic FilmUSAA Portrait of an Artist as a Dominatrix Olivia Wilde plays Erika Tracy, a contemporary art superstar-slash-sociopath (is there a difference?) in the super-fucked-up love story that is I Want Your Sex (2026) — and “fuck” is an operative…
Hyperallergic FilmUSABarbara Hammer Through Her Own Lens Barbara Forever (2026) sets itself apart from most biographical documentaries early on by eliding the first three decades of its subject’s life.
Hyperallergic FilmUSASix Films on Art and Resistance at BlackStar Film Festival PHILADELPHIA — Held from August 6 to 9, the BlackStar Film Festival marked its 15th anniversary this year with 91 films underscoring its ongoing commitment to “a cinema for liberation.” That vision…
Hyperallergic FilmUSA“American Doctor” Is an Indictment of US Leadership and Media In a new documentary on Gaza, three humanitarian physicians from the United States navigate the horrors of genocide as they struggle to treat civilians in a buckling, under-resourced hospital in Khan…
Hyperallergic FilmUSAMaori Karmael Holmes Looks Back on 15 Years of BlackStar This year, the United States semiquincentennial converges with BlackStar Film Festival’s 15th edition.
Nothing matches this filter yet.