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A growing wave of movies pushes back against the logic of infinite availability.

Almada does not hold our collective hand and explain her intent. She’s counting on and hoping for you to come to your own conclusions.

The result is a strange contradiction: that Users could be so precise and controlled from an audiovisual perspective yet meander so much in its storytelling.

Rachel Howard June 1, 2021Updated: June 1, 2021, 7:31 am Brenda Way, ODC artistic director. Photo: Darryl Bush / The Chronicle 2007 With a 13,000-square-foot Mission District campus billed as “the most active contemporary dance center on the West Coast,” ODC found itself in a strong position for survival when the pandemic hit. But “ODC doesn’t want to be the last dance organization standing after COVID,” ODC executive director Carma Zisman said recently. “We want the dance ecosystem around us.” The organization is proving its commitment to that statement with the on...

'Users' Review: A Pensive, Tech-Wary Doc Where the Pictures Say More Than the Words Stunning imagery but stunted philosophy mean this beautiful but meandering doc yields less than meets the eye. Jessica Kiang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Courtesy of Sundance Institute We’ve all been alone inside our heads a lot recently, and the question “why am I having weird dreams” has reportedly surged as a Google search over the past year. Natalia Almada’s “Users,” which won the directing award for U.S. Documentary in Sundance, is perhaps best appreciated as one of those peculiarly vivi...