Confused by AI? Allow These Glitchy Retro-Future Oracles To Explain
Lynn Hershman Leeson has long prepared for the AI revolution. In Nevada, she channels warnings and hope through digital personas.
July 08, 2025
Film
Film and Aboriginal Paintings at Nevada Museum of Art Celebrate the Ngurrara People’s Successful Land Reclamation
The U.S. debut of a documentary by Tuan Andrew Nguyen potently combines with the museum's recent gift of Aboriginal paintings in We Were Lost in Our Country.
September 24, 2024
Lloyd Kiva New Documentary Highlights the Late Designer’s Influence on Indigenous Fashion and Southwest Culture
The story of artist, fashion designer, and Institute of American Indian Arts co-founder Lloyd Kiva New is brought to life in a new documentary by Indigenous filmmaker Nathaniel Fuentes.
December 04, 2023
Debasers: A Brief Look at Albuquerque’s Basement Films, Which is Again in Flux
Basement Films is a dedicated collective that keeps a massive collection of vintage film reels as a resource for alternative, DIY, experimental, and micro-cinema.
September 22, 2023
Goodnight Noises Everywhere: Rachel Rose at SITE Santa Fe
In Goodnight Moon, Rachel Rose’s ambitious and deeply researched work opens multiple tiny entry points into vast stories of past and future days and ages.
August 23, 2023
Bearing Witness: Danny Lyon’s Journey West Highlighted in Albuquerque
Danny Lyon—photographer, filmmaker, ally of marginalized people, and heart-on-sleeve wearer—is celebrated in an Albuquerque Museum exhibition featuring selections from a prolific sixty-year career.
May 17, 2023
The Fight to Save Kimball’s Peak Three, Colorado Springs’s Only Independent Movie Theater
Kimball’s Peak Three Theater has closed after the death of owner Kimball Bayles. Community leaders are coming together to try to save Colorado Springs’s only independent movie theater.
February 14, 2023
InterviewNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Wynema Chavez Quintana on Aging and Dyeing
Wynema Chavez Quintana discusses her work as a head ager/dyer in the film industry, a job that requires a skillful understanding of color and textiles and collaboration across many departments.
February 25, 2022
Diné Filmmaker Deidra Peaches Premieres Voices of the Grand Canyon
Diné filmmaker Deidra Peaches screens documentary Voices of the Grand Canyon during Indie Film Fest 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona.
February 08, 2022
Denver Filmmaker Wins Coveted Creative Capital Award
Denver-based Mexican immigrant filmmaker Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana, director of a feature-length documentary about migrant labor at the Kentucky Derby, is one of few Southwest recipients of a Creative Capital Award.
January 19, 2022
No Name Cinema Hosts Pink Narcissus in New Santa Fe Warehouse Space
Nature prevails through a young man’s dreams in Pink Narcissus and its way-making precursor, Fireworks, to be screened together at No Name Cinema’s November program officially announced today.
November 08, 2021
FeatureSouthwestVol. 4 Winter 2021
Expanding Cinema: A Guide to Art Film in Five Southwest Cities
A guide to arthouse film, festival one-offs, and screening series across the Southwest in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Dallas, Oklahoma City, and Denver.
October 29, 2021
Madrid, NM, Population 350, Hosts Fourth Annual Short Film Festival
The Madrid Film Festival, which screens at a circa-1920 baseball field, is another creative in-person offering in the curious Turquoise Trail town situated in New Mexico’s Ortiz Mountains.
August 12, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas
Alexandra Lechin
Artist Alexandra Lechin's practice explores her own anxiety and acts as a form of soothing during times of emotional unrest.
July 30, 2021
Sarah Lasley
Sarah Lasley's experimental film and video art exposes cracks and pathways in and out of our current socio-political moment.
April 30, 2021
New Mexico Film Office Promotes Safety On Set
As the state's film industry continues to grow, the New Mexico Film Office builds standards of safety, inclusion, and worker rights.
January 13, 2021
The 12th Annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
The 12th annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival opens October 14, 2020. The usual multitude of parties and events is on-hold till next year, but the eclectic mix of acclaimed independent films remains.
October 12, 2020
Southwest Makeup Institute Primes NM Makeup Artists for Hollywood
Southwest Makeup Institute, the only makeup and special effects school in New Mexico, has a new partnership with IATSE 480, preparing students for professions in film and television.
October 05, 2020
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Update: Frank Blazquez
New Mexico Artist to Know Now Frank Blazquez updates us on his latest documentary work and writing for The Guardian.
September 21, 2020
Film Review: Vox Lux
It has been three weeks since I watched Vox Lux. Whenever I think about how to approach writing about it, in my head I hear the voice of Bill Hader’s Saturday Night Live character, Stefon...
April 26, 2019
Colette
It’s the late nineteenth century in France, and the haircuts are terrible. Frizzy, voluminous bangs, handlebar mustaches with three-inch goatees. Clearly the world was waiting for Colette...
November 28, 2018
2018 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
In the summer of 2015, I called my mother to tell her she had to move out of her house in Portland, Oregon. My sister, on...
October 30, 2018
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
Much like the movies in its lineup, the inaugural Santa Fe Independent Film Festival had a dogged crew and a bare-bones budget. Jacques Paisner and two like-minded friends...
October 01, 2018
Docu Roundup: Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist and RBG
Two women who came of age in the wake of women’s liberation, whose determination landed them at the top of their respective fields: fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
July 30, 2018
Aftershocks: The Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson
Roberta Breitmore was never “real,” even though she was made of flesh and blood; her persona was, in fact, just a figment of Hershman Leeson’s feminist imagination, only more developed than most artificially created alter egos that are set loose in the art world...
February 01, 2018
Call Me By Your Name
Elio Perlman, the main character of André Aciman’s 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name, is a beautiful, precocious, and wealthy seventeen-year-old. One summer in the early 1980s, in an unspecified town on the Italian coast, he finds himself both angered and enamored by his father’s...
February 01, 2018
Visages Villages (Faces Places)
The movie Faces Places, considered a masterpiece by many contemporary film critics, won Best Documentary at Cannes in 2017. It was written by the esteemed French filmmaker Agnès Varda and was directed by her and the French artist-activist JR. Faces Places has been enthusiastically received...
December 05, 2017
3 Questions with Smriti Keshari
Smriti Keshari is an Indian-American award-winning filmmaker, artist, and director. Her work explores untold stories beyond mainstream media. Her approach is interdisciplinary and deeply collaborative, bringing together artists, actors, musicians, scientists...
December 01, 2017
2017 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
I remember the moment, when, as a teenager, i realized that the u.s. interstate system was built by humans. This doesn’t sound like any great epiphany, but to me it was jarring, because it meant that some of the largest structures I had ever seen—highway overpasses, ribbons of asphalt...
December 01, 2017
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Preview #2
Independent films often have a freedom that larger studio films just don’t permit; without the money of a big studio also comes license to explore themes that might not make millions at the box office. This freedom is apparent in the many documentaries and feature films that...
October 19, 2017
