Through camera movement, sound, and portraits Mills builds a story that relies on discovering what makes a person who they are. Beginners is perched on the line between memory and reality, alluding to the importance of a person’s past and future in who they are in the present

In her “Observer” article, Zoe Lescaze explores the connotations and histories behind Kara Walker’s fleeting sculpture A Subtlety. In this article, I posit that Walker was able to recognize what is at play in the history of the Domino Sugar refinery and create new history for the future of the site.

At the helm of the 1933 film She Done Him Wrong, directed by Lowell Sherman, is a woman who is concerned with nothing other than her own success, survival, and satisfaction. This essay details how Sherman constructs a formal norm, and an exception to said norm, for our protagonist’s relationships with men.