Film & Documentary
December 15, 2022

Six Films That Plumb the Possibilities of Prison Abolition

The shorts will be screened as part of XO & Struggle: An Evening of Abolitionist Cinema at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem, New York. | Elaine Velie 

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In a New Documentary, Refugees Reclaim Their Narrative

Refugees of the Moria camp in Lesvos, Greece are behind the camera in the film Nothing About Us Without Us. | Rhea Nayyar

Rewind & Play Pits a Musical Genius Against a Culture of Racism

An insidious racism is at play in interviewer Henri Renaud’s attempt to groom Thelonious Monk for public consumption on French television. | Anthony Hawley

Is There Anything Left to Say About the Male Gaze?

Nina Menkes’s Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power wants to join the ongoing conversation about gender and film. The trouble is that it has nothing new to say. | Sophia Stewart