In New York City, Palestinian Cinema Returns to the Screen

But some fear a “flash in the pan” effect and hope Palestinian films can be better integrated into the city’s vision of a global cinema. | Kyle Turner

JAPAN CUTS FILM FESTIVAL

There’s Something for Everyone at This Year’s Japan Cuts

One of the most underrated film festivals in New York, each year it presents an accessible and engaging collection of recent Japanese cinema. | Dan Schidnel

Shunga Might Just Convince You That Pornography Is Art

Director Junko Hirata delves deep into the history and influence of the pornographic art form without cheap tittering at its illicit imagery.  | Dan Schindel

Stream Media Art From Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African Diaspora on PAMMTV

Pérez Art Museum Miami’s new free streaming platform for video art fills gaps in moving image scholarship from the global majority.

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ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC

The Women and Children of the Second Artsakh War

Two films make US viewers reckon with the extent to which American ignorance — and indifference — to the conflict is a side effect of “winning” the Cold War. | Eileen G’Sell

The Revisions That Make Us Human

Revising Reality argues that the world as we know it is our creative output so our memories cannot help but be continually edited. | Melissa Holbrook Pierson

FROM THE ARCHIVE

That Summer Offers a More Human Look at the Women of Grey Gardens

As a “prequel” look at the Beales, That Summer makes for a fascinating contrast between the icons they have been turned into and the people they were before then. | Dan Schindel