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Home life: a revelatory program of evocative films by Robert Beavers daisy-chains memories, dreams, and desires across continents and decades

Museum of the Moving Image announced the complete lineup for the 12th edition of First Look, the Museumʼs festival of new and innovative international cinema, which will take place March 15–19, 2023. The festival introduces New York audiences to formally inventive works that seek to redefine the art form while engaging in a wide range

At their Wilmersdorf studio, experimental film veterans Robert Beavers and Ute Aurand painstakingly restore the old negatives of Gregory Markopoulos' epic film.

When it comes to making a relationship work, it takes two. But unfortunately, Mpho Mokone* is fine with not trying to mend the strained relationship with her mother-in-law.

An eighty-hour film? It may sound utterly mad, and yet such is—in the words of P. Adams Sitney—“the most uncompromising and perhaps most demanding film ever made,” Gregory J. Markopoulos’s Eniaios, 1947–91. “Idyll Worship,” Sitney’s essay on this masterwork of avant-garde cinema, was published in Artforum in November 2004. In the summer of that year, the film scholar had attended a screening of Eniaios’s first installments that was held outdoors over three evenings in the hil...

A West Virginia mayor who was arrested and charged Sunday cruised to reelection victory on Tuesday.

West Virginia mayor reelected two days after arrest May 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WAR, W.Va. (AP) — A southern West Virginia mayor has been reelected despite facing criminal charges. Robert Beavers, the incumbent mayor of War in McDowell County, defeated challenger Grover Mahone on Tuesday by a vote of 123-40, the Bluefield Daily Telegraph reported. The win came two days after Beavers, 67, was arrested in Fayette County on charges including possession of a controlled substance and driving...

A southern West Virginia mayor has been reelected despite facing criminal charges.

National Film Registry Spotlights Diverse Filmmakers Among 25 Titles Selected for Preservation in 2020 ​The camerawork of nine ASC members is included in this latest roster of motion pictures added to the Library of Congress’ impressive lineup. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced in Dec. 14 the annual selection of 25 of America’s most influential motion pictures to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. These films range from the innovative silen...