By Rachel Silver Maddock In an age of unending video content through Instagram, TikTok and ever-increasing streaming platforms, F-O-R-M (Festival of Recorded Movement) is carving out space for a slower, more refined approach to making film art. The annual international festival commissions youth (ages 15-25) and emerging artists (25+) to make short films over a
By Kaija Pepper It’s complicated. Not just Hofesh Shechter’s Clowns — the chilling first half of Double Murder — but the audience’s enthusiastic response to the work, with its almost casual descent into killing. To be clear, there is no cinematic realism, no close-ups of battered or broken bodies, which are viewed every day on
By Jeannette Anderson Instead of opening its season with the planned mixed bill Celebrate!, Dutch National Ballet made a timely change in programming with the more somber triple bill, Shadows, featuring Kurt Jooss’ iconic 1932 anti-war ballet, The Green Table. Company director Ted Brandsen explained in a program note that they did so because Jooss’