This month, a range of video essays about tech-related subjects and history.

Stop-motion animation, the poetic story of a snowman, and other picks highlight the artistic potential of the classic genre.

What does it mean for a film addressing overtly political themes to remain apolitical?

The event, running now through December 10, first launched in 2021 as an alternative to the government-sponsored Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival.

The Japan Society will screen six iconic films that explore the years 1912–1926, “a new modern era” marked by progressive reforms and a blossoming of the arts.

"Filming in a kitchen is like working with a ballet or theater company," the filmmaker told Hyperallergic in an interview for the release of his new film Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros.

The latest episode features a copycat of artist Doug Aitken’s mirrored house and Emma Stone as a misguided White woman experiencing Native art.

Director Nicole Newnham chronicles the rise, fall, and disappearance of the iconic feminist sexologist.

This month, we feature videos on criticism, artificial intelligence, social media, and more.

The strike has ended, but not everyone is satisfied with the tentative contract’s stipulations for the use of artificial intelligence in film and TV.

Israelism follows two young Jewish Americans whose perception of Israel changes once they see how the nation treats Palestinians.

The short film The Family Statement centers on private messages between the Sacklers unsealed as part of Purdue Pharma’s 2020 bankruptcy case.

How to Have an American Baby exposes a Chinese business that cares only for the bottom line, and a private US hospital system more than happy to serve patients paying cash.

Cultural groups and artists are withdrawing from the film festival over allegations of institutional censorship of the Palestinian liberation movement.

Paul B. Preciado’s film prizes creative passion over pathology, and trades individual trauma for collective and individual transcendence.

After the Arab Film Festival was postponed, organizers launched a new program of feature-length films, documentaries, and shorts that focus on personal stories.

Subject’s premise is novel and has potential, but for all the film’s discussion of ethics, it has its own failings.

The world’s largest documentary film festival is back with over 250 films that expand and experiment with the genre.

A new documentary follows a team of Ohio artists and environmentalists transforming acid mine drainage into viable art materials.

A new series presented with the Guggenheim Museum puts a spotlight on the Chilean-born multidisciplinary artist’s work as a filmmaker.

A new documentary asks whether the Pop Art icon appropriated the work of comic artists. If so, who’s truly to blame?

Pictures of Ghosts is concerned not just with how cinema makes memory tangible, but also how we historically have interacted with it. 

A new film adaptation of his 1967 essay “The Society of the Spectacle” reminds us that the revolution must take place within the self first.

The festival’s Currents program deserves praise for its selection of risk-taking films.

Aurora Mardiganian survived the Armenian Genocide and found freedom in the United States before realizing that the entertainment system she trusted with her story prioritized profit over her pain.

Hunger explores how incarcerated men transgressed the confines of prison by weaponizing their bodies to contaminate, disrupt, and acquire agency.

“Homing,” premiering next month in Manhattan, tells the story of an emotionally volatile pigeon rearer named Juan.

With so many to sort through, here are some recommendations for the best recent video essays to check out.

The festival is back starting October 25 with a lineup of over 125 independent films.

The Boy and the Heron is an old man’s look back at a life spent crafting intricate worlds, now offering the tools to do so to the next generation.

Victoria Linares’s docu-fiction hybrid Ramona amplifies the voices of the young women behind the statistics.

The National Museum of the American Indian will screen three films directed by the Six Nations Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) artist this Saturday, October 7.

In The Pigeon Tunnel, documentarian Errol Morris attempts to suss out what makes the famed spy novelist tick.

Michal Weits's Blue Box, in which she grapples with her great-grandfather's role in the mass displacement of Palestinians, doesn't go quite far enough.

Two movies at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival reflect on the onscreen representation of the Holocaust after Claude Lanzmann’s landmark Shoah.

Yashica Dutt has pointed out similarities between her life’s story and one of the characters in Made in Heaven.

Her short film Quiet As It’s Kept captures the essence of Morrison’s first novel with the same foreboding precision.

To say that Bethann Hardison has contributed to racial progress in one of the world’s most whitewashed realms is an understatement. But a new documentary about her life might have gone a step too far.

In NYC’s Lower East Side, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space will screen films documenting community-led actions to combat the housing crisis.

Taming the Garden is a meditation on constancy, change brought about by the will and wealth of one person, and complex ecosystems.

Guzmán sits with Hyperallergic for a conversation about the lost promise of Salvador Allende’s presidency, enduring personal and collective trauma, and the continued possibility for a new revolution.

Hadi Moussally’s short film "Sultana’s Reign" is a lovely portrait of queerness, Middle Easternness, and Palestinianness … a beautiful multitude.

The films in Labor Day on 16mm go beyond buzzwords and focus on educating audiences in the foundational history of labor movements in the US.

D. Scott’s documentary on Black trans sex workers is as sunny as it is sobering, a film that refuses to moralize.

During the Bosnian War, somewhat astonishingly, numerous filmmakers in Sarajevo refused to put down their cameras.

“They insist on cutting every corner,” said Bridge Squitire, a server and trainer at the theater who helped organize the union drive.

The Eternal Memory draws parallels between a Chilean couple’s struggle with Alzheimer’s and their country’s broader struggle to maintain its history.

The festival has released the lineup for its Wavelengths section, focused on avant-garde and provocative film media, and its Classics program.

For all the character that the city has lost to gentrification, How To with John Wilson demonstrates how much delightful strangeness can still be found here.

In Brooklyn, a screening of the new documentary Joonam brought the city’s Iranian diaspora together in a celebration of art, culture, and identity.