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Rooftop Cinema: The anonymous Anti-Banality Union collective re-edits disaster films into a climate change tale. NR, 2022. $7.

Earth II is four decades of disaster movies recut into climate change reality.

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The Anti-Banality Union (ABU) has been making films for more than a decade, but they’ve never picked up a camera. Instead their work is reminiscent of the Moscow Film School—the world's first film school, where a shortage of film stock meant students repeatedly edited existing works, leading to the montage as we know it. This anonymous collective re-edits Hollywood blockbusters into cinematic collages. Their work began in 2011 with Unclear Holocaust, a piece made up...

Cooler weather calls for ducking inside, whether it's to catch a film at the cinema, see your favorite artist light up the stage in a dark venue, take in a lecture, or peruse an art show. To keep you supplied with a steady dose of culture, we’ve rounded up the most noteworthy arts events this season, from Jonathan Van Ness to Florence + The Machine with Japanese Breakfast and from To Kill a Mockingbird to...