Counter Arts

How Neeraj Ghaywan’s 2017 short film lays bare the suffocating gender roles in South Asian households

Billy Wilder’s prisoner-of-war mystery/comedy is close to a masterpiece, but its muddled genre-blending stops it short

Fractured, incongruent, and heterogenous

The modernity and metamodernism of Poe

Art or just a snapshot?

Help me decide what I should imprint on my body forever

And why I’m staying in therapy for the foreseeable future

Director Ishirō Honda Delivers a Methaphor, Message & Carnage Through Cinema

To have (material objects) or not to have? Now, that’s a good question.

Acknowledging the pain of childhood trauma

We should try to arrive at a real explanation — as difficult as it may be

And I wish I could go back in time to before I bought the tickets

He’s often called a visionary, but even Pharrell’s biggest fans weren’t expecting his life story in LEGO. It’s a choice that turns out to…

Theo Anthony’s experimental documentary uses rat exploitation as a metaphor for the treatment of minorities in Baltimore

A contemporary exploration of self and place

This early Sean Baker film is a gem

With a carefully crafted style, Pascal Quignard gave the world a literary ode to music, to the love of solitude and how passion can be an…

‘I Saw the TV Glow,’ Self-Imposed Time Capsules, and Hope

Appearing good is not the same as being good

Kierkegaard on Repetition and Meaning

I walked away with second-hand embarrassment and feeling slightly triggered by the insensitivity to mental health

A white background and a black square. What’s so special or complicated about it? At first glance, absolutely nothing

The Arts are for everyone, every season.

A metamodern poet?