Andrew Thomas Huang's "Interstice"
Andrew Thomas Huang's video "Interstice" is dynamic in color, movement and text. This textual element that exists outside the frame of what the body in motion provides context, which I've sniped and...
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Steve Aoki at Tribeca
Justin Krook's documentary of Steve Aoki premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival over the weekend. At the premiere of "I'll Sleep when I'm Dead, a film takes a look at Aoki's life of music, Aoki took...
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Viet Thanh Nguyen Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The summary of the novel is telling. It begins in 1975, in April, in Saigon. It is a novel about a man who is, as the title explains, the sympathizer with a country he leaves, seems to betray, and yet...
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Feature: Five Qs with Karissa Chen
Karissa Chen is author of the fiction chapbook Of Birds and Lovers. Her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including, Gulf Coast, Guernica, PEN America, and The Toast. She is...
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In a recent interview with Cloud Gate founder Lin Hwai-min discusses the backstory to the founding of his dance company Cloud Gate and the upcoming performance of "Songs of the Wanderers," which will...
View ArticleLARB's New Look and its Radio Hour
As any student of Edward Tufte will attest, visual displays of information matter. The LARB's new look makes visible its various sections, aptly contained in "Sections," which makes it that much easier...
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Feature: Five Qs with Jason Oliver Chang
Jason Oliver Chang is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and History at the University of Connecticut. He earned his doctorate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley....
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Digital Makeover Magic: Kurosawa's Ran
Guy Lodge reviews the new digitally remastered masterpiece of film -- Akira Kurosawa's Ran (new in Blu-ray by Studiocanal, 12), noting the spectacular art of film and filmic history is revealed with...
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Feature: Five Qs with Celeste Chan
Celeste Chan is a queer artist, activist, writer, and filmmaker, schooled by DIY and immigrant parents from Malaysia and the Bronx, NY. Her recent writing can be found in AWAY, cream city review's...
View ArticleAt Cannes: Park Chan-wook's "Agassi"
The 2016 Cannes Film Festival is set to begin on May 11th. Among the anticipated showing is Park Chan-wook's "Agassi (The Handmaiden)." Park teams up with his previous production team from "Old Boy" to...
View ArticleMoved by "Others"
How fast do you move by others as you commute to/from work and life? In a new video, "Others,"film maker Hiroshi Kondo stops and plays with the ebb and flow of humanity.
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Feature: Five Qs with Edwin Agustín Lozada
Edwin Agustín Lozada was born in the Philippines and grew up in California. Inspired by the nineteenth century Philippine writers, he primarily writes in Spanish to help maintain a now rare tradition...
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DC Korean Film Festival 2016
Korean film industry (also known as Chungmuro) makes a solid appearance at the Cannes Film Festival with Park Chan-wook's stylish "Agassi", Yeon Sang-ho's zombie apocalypse "Train to Busan,"and Na...
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Cao Fei at MOMA PS1
Is summer too far away to dream of bathing with watermelons? Or maybe it's not really about dreaming or summer or even watermelons that inspired this image for Cao Fei, the artist whose work is on...
View ArticleIn Celebration of Yuri Kochiyama at 95
Born on May 19, 1921, Yuri Kochiyama was a human rights activist. In honor of her 95th birthday, here's a song to remember her by -- for a new generation of human rights activists to be like Yuri...
View ArticleHarmonium (Fuchi ni Tatsu) wins at Cannes 2016, Jury Prize, Un Certain Regard
In his first selection for Cannes, Kôji Fukada wins the Jury Prize, Un Certain Regard for his film Harmonium (Fuchi ni Tatsu), which chronicles how a family's life is interrupted when an old friend,...
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Obama in Hiroshima
President Obama is the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, the first city bombed with a nuclear bomb, which killed 100,000 people. He takes this occasion to visit Hiroshima 71 years later, to...
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Hōkūleʻa setting sail for World Ocean's Day 2016
Hōkūle'a has left DC and set sail to New York for World Ocean's Day 2016 on June 8th. Hōkūle'a, a performance-accurate deep sea voyaging canoe was built in the tradition of ancient Hawaiian wa'a kaulua...
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A Summer Read: Radha Vatsal's A Front Page Affair
It is June and the summer reading season has begun in earnest. For those who love a good mystery mingled with a historical facts turned fiction Vatsal's A Front Page Affair might be the perfect...
View ArticleStudio Ghibli's "When Marnie Was There"
In a recent review, Guardian reporter Chris Michael considers Studio Ghibli under the helm of Miromasa Yonebayashi, the protege of Hayao Miyazaki who retired from the studio which he co-founded in...
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