Arts Feb 11 Writer Curtis Chin on what growing up in a Chinese restaurant teaches about life By John Yang, Claire Mufson, Juliet Fuisz
Arts Jan 23 Watch 6:25 Filmmaker Sky Hopinka’s unconventional ways of telling Native stories The artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Genius Award last fall, celebrating a decade of his experimental work focused on Indigenous people. Jeffrey Brown met Hopinka in New York’s Hudson Valley for the final story in… By Jeffrey Brown, Lena I. Jackson
Arts Sep 13 Watch 1:49 French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard dies at 91 Legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard died Tuesday at his home in Switzerland. Beginning in the late 1950s and into the 60s, he and other young filmmakers became known as the "French New Wave." Jeffrey Brown looks back at the career… By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport
Arts Nov 27 Director, filmmaker and comedian Jonathan Miller dies at 85 One of the country’s most important and wide-ranging arts figures, Miller had a decades-long career that encompassed theater, television and opera. By Jill Lawless, Associated Press
Arts Oct 07 Watch 7:36 John Waters on the art of shocking audiences This weekend, a major retrospective of filmmaker John Waters' work, titled “Indecent Exposure,” opened in his hometown at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Often satirizing violence, celebrity and sexuality, the cult film director has long pushed limits of cinematic decency… By Christopher Booker, Mori Rothman
Jan 26 That time I ended up in a womb with a baby and other virtual reality ‘immersions’ By Jeffrey Brown This was in the New Frontier exhibition that’s showcasing a new world of virtual reality technology and its use in filmmaking. There was plenty of video game-like ‘immersion,’ Filmmakers are beginning to think through how to tell a complex story… Continue reading
Nov 19 Watch 7:26 ’12 Years a Slave’ restores historic firsthand account to cultural consciousness By PBS News Hour In depicting American slavery, Hollywood has long left some of the most brutal realities largely unseen. But the filmmakers behind "12 Years a Slave" tried not to flinch in showing the full system of human subjugation. Jeffrey Brown talks to… Continue watching
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Dec 10 Watch Extended Interviews: ‘Ai Weiwei: According to What?’ More from interviews with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, Kerry Brougher and Alison Klayman. Continue watching
Mar 26 Watch James Cameron Descends 7 Miles Into Pacific Ocean’s ‘Desolate’ Mariana Trench Jame Cameron Descends 7 Miles Into Pacific Ocean's 'Desolute' Mariana Trench… Continue watching