See 1939 black North Carolinians as they saw themselves! Thirza Wakefield probes the faces filmed by H. Lee Waters, the Mitchell and Kenyon of his time and place.
Modern tyranny comes to a not-so-long-ago Philippine village in Lav Diaz’s latest extensive historical tragedy, now making its UK premiere on subscription VoD, says Adam Nayman.
These two alfresco minutes from an oddball 1935 home movie in the University of South Carolina’s archives presage Southern Gothic’s long lineage of female immobility, says Thirza Wakefield.
War bomber footage is nothing new, as this public-domain gun-camera scrapbook from the Pacific War goes to prove. But with its abstruseness veering to the abstract, does it lend us an alternative approach to the uncanny in conflict, asks Thirza Wakefield?
For our archives online column, Thirza Wakefield uncovers a public TV documentary that records (and decries) the state of racism in San Francisco, 1963, with James Baldwin and more.