Paris, Nov. 25 (CNA) An exhibition featuring more than 30 years of filmmaking by Taiwan-based Malaysian filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang (蔡明亮) opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on Friday.
Film:
Nomadland (2020) Chloé Zhao
A movie about American poverty? Yes, but also a film about the complex and varied ideas of freedom that come with living in this humongous, politically and economically disparate country. What is monetary, individual and emotional liberation in an American west pocked with Amazon packaging plants? Giant corporations engender a giant gig economy, not stability or growth. Frances McDormand brilliantly plays the resilient protagonist, Fern.
Luis Camnitzer,
Book:
One Number Is Worth One Word (2020) Luis Camnitzer
Few write with such succinct eloquence and intent on the potentials of learning and artistic knowledge, or the failures of university art programmes. Here, the artist and teacher addresses, among other topics, the pitfalls of disciplinary study as related to the reorientation of power, in writings penned between 1960 and 2017. ‘If, instead of being concerned primarily with certain particular skills, we would apply ourselves to the g