Happening Type: Film

Partnering with twenty organizations, Whitechapel Gallery’s Artists’ Film International is a collaborative initiative to showcase film, video, and animation from around the world. In March, they began premiering a new film each Tuesday for online viewing. The unifying theme is language and its connection to place, with selections ranging from South African performance artist Lerato Shadi’s celebration of marginalized language through hand gestures and music to Irish artist Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s rumination on ancient language from within the scarred interior of a quarry.

Thirty years of the Walker Dialogues and Film Retrospectives series are now available to explore as an online resource. These conversations with leading filmmakers, actors, writers, and others who have visited the Walker Art Center examine their creative processes in cinema. More than sixty sound and video recordings, transcripts, essays, images, and other materials are available ranging from a 2020 talk with Parasite director Bong Joon Ho to a 2001 talk with the late filmmaker Agnès Varda. Also in the archive are insightful discussions on the art and craft of film from Ken Burns, Jodie Foster, Werner Herzog, Spike Lee, Gordon Parks, John Waters, and many more.