Dani Leventhal's PlatonicThis review, I think, might best be understood as an example of “slow criticism.” This is a term coined by Filmkrant editor Dana Linssen to describe “wayward articles,” ones that have a personal or political element that is somehow not timely. We can imagine that the reverse of this is “fast criticism,” the up-to-the-minute report from a film festival, the 140-character response tweeted out the minute the first press screening is over. These thoughts are not timely. The Whitney Biennial closed on June 11th, and the film program screened its final program on May 21st. So although I expect many of these films to have a life long after their appearance at the Whitney, I am not providing any kind of late-breaking news flash from the film or art world by writing about these works in this forum.But in a way, that is the point. Even...
- 8/1/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. James N. Kienitz Wilkins' Public Hearing (2012) is playing July 11 - August 10, 2017 on Mubi in most countries around the world.By now the influence of the Internet on contemporary film and video art has been long established and theorized. More often than not, discussions have centered around aesthetics concerns, be they theories of the low-resolution media (noting Hito Steyerl interest in "poor images") or the splintered nature of tabbed browsing. Less consideration has been placed on the banality that pervades much of the material we find (or perhaps pass over) online. With a number of projects in his increasingly broad body of work, Brooklyn-based artist James N. Kienitz Wilkins has examined the politics or poetics undergirding that which might immediately seem to be neutral and unremarkable, such as the coded racism of stock images in his film B-Roll with...
- 7/20/2017
- MUBI
Mubi is presenting the world premiere of James N. Kientiz Wilkins' The Republic from July 4 - August 3, 2017.The cinema of James N. Kienitz Wilkins occupies an unusual space in the contemporary art scene. Most of his films are the result of some sort of conceptual procedure, a decision either to treat his original footage according to some abstract system or to apply his own logic to found material. And yet, there is a plainspoken quality to Kienitz Wilkins’ work that smooths out any potential “art damage” or intimidation factor. Kienitz Wilkins has successfully adapted some of the most critical weapons in the arsenal of experimental cinema to produce a stark poetry of the everyday.Kienitz Wilkins’ newest “film,” The Republic, is quite possibly his most radical effort to date. For starters, you will notice that I put the word “film” in quotation marks, since it is no easy matter to...
- 7/4/2017
- MUBI
Mubi is proud to present the world premiere of James N. Kientiz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir's epic The Republic (2017). It will be showing in most countries around the world from July 4 - August 3, 2017.About The REPUBLICThe Republic is a narrative with precedents set more by the philosophical thought experiments of Plato, More and other imagineers of Utopias than by drama or film. While there are characters and these characters have emotions and drives, and while there are funny and sad moments, the real preoccupation—the final overall image, in my opinion—is how a society is structured, and how that structure changes to accommodate new parts.The society in question is comprised of old men who embody the values of liberalism to an almost perverse degree. These “citizens” (as they refer to themselves), are Beings with an unyielding drive for that situation which most of us claim to want: Freedom.
- 7/4/2017
- MUBI
Nothing says Independence Day quite like a three-plus hour long experimental narrative feature whose sole aesthetic quality is a slow shift in screen color. Right?
Well, according to the fine folks at Mubi, that’s how they see fit to celebrate the holiday, as they have taken this day to release the weirdly magnetic new film from artist James N. Kienitz Wilkins, entitled The Republic.
Championed both by the film festival scene (his film Indefinite Pitch screened at festivals like New York and Locarno) and the art scene (his film Mediums was made part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial), Wilkns has become a hot commodity in the experimental film scene, and this is maybe his most ambitious picture yet. The film sees the director team with an ensemble cast of 15 different actors, all to tell the story of a collection of Libertarian men who let in the spouse of a traitor...
Well, according to the fine folks at Mubi, that’s how they see fit to celebrate the holiday, as they have taken this day to release the weirdly magnetic new film from artist James N. Kienitz Wilkins, entitled The Republic.
Championed both by the film festival scene (his film Indefinite Pitch screened at festivals like New York and Locarno) and the art scene (his film Mediums was made part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial), Wilkns has become a hot commodity in the experimental film scene, and this is maybe his most ambitious picture yet. The film sees the director team with an ensemble cast of 15 different actors, all to tell the story of a collection of Libertarian men who let in the spouse of a traitor...
- 7/3/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Netflix has acquired the worldwide Svod rights to Drake Doremus’ “Newness,” Deadline reports. The film stars Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa as a couple in contemporary Los Angeles navigating the world of online dating and social media–driven hookup culture. The film was a last-minute addition to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and co-stars Matthew Gray Gubler, Courtney Eaton, Danny Huston and Courtney Eaton. Netflix acquired the rights in a reported seven-figure deal.
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s second feature film, “Abundant Acreage Available.” The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award in the U.S. Narrative Competition. The film focuses on siblings Tracy (Amy Ryan) and Jesse...
– Netflix has acquired the worldwide Svod rights to Drake Doremus’ “Newness,” Deadline reports. The film stars Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa as a couple in contemporary Los Angeles navigating the world of online dating and social media–driven hookup culture. The film was a last-minute addition to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and co-stars Matthew Gray Gubler, Courtney Eaton, Danny Huston and Courtney Eaton. Netflix acquired the rights in a reported seven-figure deal.
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s second feature film, “Abundant Acreage Available.” The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award in the U.S. Narrative Competition. The film focuses on siblings Tracy (Amy Ryan) and Jesse...
- 6/16/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
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