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Lateral is an eleven-minute essay film by Charlie Shackleton. Notionally an experiment in 3D filmmaking—and in the experimental potential for 3D imagery to be already present in traditional 2D images—the film begins in darkness.
Refracted light: Jerome Hiler’s Cinema Before 1300 is a discursive exploration of Gothic cathedrals’ luminous stained glass and a crucial part of a retrospective at MoMA
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Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler are returning to New York. Partners in life and cinema for nearly sixty years, this month, MoMA and Anthology Film Archives will present a panoply of screenings of their experimental, personal, and mostly silent films—spanning from their earliest endeavors of the 1960s when they were immersed in New York’s cross cultural artistic bloom, to more recent poetic transmissions from their perch in San Francisco.
Mikel Rouse is one of the most important and accomplished contemporary American opera composers. He’s an avant-gardist with pop and deep humanist appeal. His memoir, The World Got Away, will be published May 21 by the University of Illinois Press. He sat down for coffee with the Rail on a bright, chilly March afternoon in Hell’s Kitchen.