Purple haze: highlights of the NYFF61 Currents shorts programs make a case for a cinema that turns minimalism and economy into a field for vibrant, unfettered experimentation
Office culture: director Rodrigo Moreno discusses his NYFF61 standout, a matryoshka doll of a movie, crackling with dry humor, about the drudgery of office work
Be like water: Víctor Erice’s Close Your Eyes and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures of Ghosts are love letters to cinema that take very different approaches
Work out: representatives of the unions behind the writers’ and actors’ strikes join, along with critic Alissa Wilkinson, to discuss these labor actions
Earth and sky: the director and cinematographer behind the NYFF61 standout discuss their poetic, evocative portrait of a young woman whose story is inextricably linked to a sense of community and place
Future days: two of the most anticipated films from this year's edition, Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast and Harmony Korine’s AGGRO DR1FT, share a desire to provoke
Out of the fog: the NYFF61 Revivals section features a thematic thread of films about immigration and displacement: Bahram Beyzaie’s The Stranger and the Fog, Tewfik Saleh’s The Dupes, Horace Ové’s Pressure, and more
More please: Arnow’s comedic auto-portrait of a woman adrift in New York City is a moving exploration of romantic and existential indecision, sexual self-expression, humiliation, and the uses of first-person experience in storytelling
