An Interview with Black Gold Programmer Sarah-Tai Black
Sarah-Tai Black is a programmer and arts writer based in Toronto. Since 2017, she has curated Black Gold — a monthly screening series at The Royal Cinema dedicated to celebrating black screen icons and filmmakers. On March 7th, to celebrate its second anniversary, Black Gold will be screening a rare 35mm print of Claire Denis’ little-seen […]
We Still Need the Women’s Army: Form and Politics in Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames
“I don’t want to tell a story. I have no story to tell. I have problems to figure out.” —Lizzie Borden Lizzie Borden’s radical feminist quasi-documentary Born in Flames (1983) constructs its story through a deeply space-oriented plot. That is, where (the socialist democracy of the U.S.A) is often more important than when (ten years […]