Daniel Barrow’s performance, wistfully narrated by the artist, is accompanied by his endearing, and sometimes brutal, drawings. I’ve seen Barrow’s work before but had no idea I’d love his writing as much as I do his images. And there’s something almost miraculous there: Barrow acknowledges all of the mundane disappointments that the world […]

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In b.h. Yael’s Trading the Future, a young guy on the street predicts not only that Europe will be covered in ice in twenty years, but that there is “something” on the way to close the trilogy begun by dinosaurs and then human beings. Yael is confused by the rather bleak prophecies of youth […]

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b.h. Yael’s Trading the Future closed the Images Festival on Sunday night. In essayist form Yael makes a case for a connection between religious (and secular) belief in the apocalypse and our dysfunctional relationship with Nature. Is our unwillingness to respect the limits of growth of the finite system that is our planet a result […]

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The seventh installment in the International shorts series offers a well curated evening of films that could be classified as subtle sci-fi. None of the three films in the program aspire to be science fiction but they all possess a haunting, post-apocalyptic feel or seem to be filmed on a planet strangely similar to ours. […]

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Live Images V was a meeting between image-artist Charles Atlas and guitarist/audio-artist Alan Licht. Although the two gentlemen have known each other for a while, they have never previously collaborated. So, this was like an initial encounter. Mr. Atlas brings in film/video stocks (Edison’s Sandow The Strongman proto-physique film was rather prominent), and then plays […]

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