Film and New Media
An Article about a Play about a Play
Gabrielle Flores writes a review that’s not really a review, about a play that wasn’t really a play but a performance piece about how to think about a play.
Dreams and Delusions
Because I'm taking a "Pathways of World Literature" class called Dreams this semester, I signed up to watch a program of short films called "Dreams and Delusions," which was part of last month's Imagine Science Abu Dhabi Film Festival. Despite my stint with high...
The Dust Behind the Magic: Volunteering at ADFF
Red carpets … movie stars … and glamour! Aren't these the words we often think of when we hear about the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, or any film festival for that matter? We see movie posters on the walls and blinding lights that are trying to capture that beautiful...
Frankenstein and Technophobia
What Frankenstein tells us about our love-hate relationship with technology.
The Problem of Point-of-View in Documentary Film
Five minutes into a film a friend described to me as "a documentary about the First Intifada," I stared incredulously at the stop-motion animation of four cartoonish cows. The narrator introduced them as proud Ruth, pacifistic Rivka, overly dramatic Lola, and Goldie,...
The Lasting Appeal of Sholay
"Film is one way -- perhaps the most important way -- in which India makes sense of the teeming, heaving and chaotic multiplicity and the sprawling diversity of this tumultuous nation state. Bollywood is 'ordered chaos' or pastiche, Bedlam at its chaotic best." --...
ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHY
The winners of our analog photography contest!
Art and Activism with Sue Coe
Fiction and fact, art and activism: Tessa Ayson discusses the work of Sue Coe, animal rights activist and artist.
The Crochet Coral Reef Project Comes to Abu Dhabi
What can crochet do to help save the planet? Chaeri Lee investigates
Art and Activism with Zena el Khalil
Khadija Toor explores the links between art and activism when she attends a workshop led by the Beiruti artist Zena el Khalil.
Video-Game Puppetry and the Sieges of Rome
Video game characters used as puppets to tell stories from the classical tradition? Kevin Riordan reports on Eddie Kim’s machinima theater productions
Chile’s “No” Goes From the Abu Dhabi Film Festival to the Oscars
Besiki Turazashvili on Pablo Larraín’s Oscar-nominated film about Chile in the 1980s.