Art and Loathing in The African Desperate Laura Henderson August 2022 MIFF at 70 The African Desperate (Martine Syms, 2022) captures the vital, painful moments of transition in the life of an MFA student on the eve of her graduation. Taking an art world lens to the coming-of-age genre, the ...
Threatening Platforms: Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing by Caetlin Benson-Allott Laura Henderson June 2014 Book Reviews We live in an age of constant media access, of Netflix, Youtube, and an unprecedented shift towards “extreme” content. It is easy to forget that once, media access was seen as monstrous, a creeping poison in th...
American Smart Cinema by Claire Perkins Laura Henderson December 2013 Book Reviews To say that the American independent film scene is the product of serendipity is an exercise in colossal understatement. Like a kaleidoscope clicking into place, the early 1990s saw industrial, cultural and soc...
