A review of Věra Chytilová’s film Daisies, presented as part of the ongoing column SOUND and VISION...
Oliver Shaw
September 16, 2024
film, columns - detroit city
Lynne Ramsay’s work is not for the faint of heart. She’s only made four films in almost twenty five years, but I’ve yet to encounter a filmmaker who demonstrates the notion “quality, not quantity” more awesomely than Lynne Ramsay. I love all her films, and all for different reasons. But none of them (few films at all, really) come close to Morvern Callar...
Oliver Shaw
May 20, 2024
film, columns - detroit city
When David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows premiered in 2014, I was in awe of how simultaneously timeless and timely the film was. There was a marked jump in collective screen time after 2013, the start of many more people having access to everything (the internet, each other) all the time (smartphones) — the start of time collapsing in on itself just as it does in the film...
Lisa John Rogers
March 11, 2024
film - detroit city
When Ashley and I decided to put together this column, films started flooding my thoughts. I have hundreds of favorite films. Seriously. Tangerine is just one. But, Tangerine embodies the spirit of this series better than most. This is Sound and Vision, so I had to pick something with the most explosive of aesthetics...
Oliver Shaw
December 25, 2023
film, columns - detroit city
As I sit down to make sense of True Romance and how it works its way through how I understand myself in relation to the city I’m transported in time to my uncle’s white van on I-94 in the pitch blackness of the early evening, working our way back to “Midtown”/”Cass Corridor” from an off the books scrap job in the suburbs...
Walter Lucken IV
December 22, 2023
film - detroit city
A sizable group assembled in the backyard behind Spaysky Fine Art in Hubbard Farms for Matteus Huvaere’s anticipated performance Honoring the Heatwave: I Have to Save my Family. Huvaere and I recently met onset during a music video shoot. Huvaere was the talent, I was the movement director...
Biba Bell
December 1, 2023
art, film - detroit city
Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s Chameleon Street is the ultimate example of a hidden gem. After a long overdue national tour last year (including a screening and Q&A with writer/director/star Wendell B. Harris at the city’s own Cinema Detroit), the film is finally reaching an audience Hollywood hoped it would never find...
Oliver Shaw
March 27, 2023
film - detroit city
When viewing bree gant’s Wend, currently on view at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, I reflect on our bodies in relation to space. Interior space, space within our bodies, exterior space, space our bodies take up in the world and the infrastructural space our bodies are confined by...
Chris Pinter
February 27, 2023
art, film - detroit city
Gen Kuzak’s most recent pornographic film The French Boys premiered at the Cranbrook DeSalle Auditorium in Bloomfield Hills on October 14, 2021. The film features a transmasculine couple in Paris, France who responded to Gen’s call for actors after having also become fans of his work in recent years...
Ashley Cook
December 2, 2021
art, film - great lakes region, central europe
Among the newest array of online zoom meetings and virtual dance parties, in the ether of the net, exists a 115 minute ambient music set weaved intermittently with a reading of Octavia E. Butler’s Speech Sounds. Composed by Perlex, Speech Sounds Live was presented as part of the BLDG:01 live streaming project called Stille. The airy vibe of the encouraging melody and layered sounds, like wind or a machine working slowly with a steady rhythm,...
Ashley Cook
May 25, 2020
music, literature, film - detroit city