A new film from a great director who always takes risks. From his explosive debut to his latest work, the Mexican filmmaker has built a career on calculated risks—artistic, technical, and personal—that most directors would carefully avoid. The result is a body of work that feels singular: restless, ambitious, and often polarizing, yet impossible to ignore. It began with Amores Perros (2000). Rather than deliver a conventional debut, Iñárritu wove three raw, intersecting stori

A review of the short film The Aloha Within, directed by Robert Massetti and Elvis Maleko The Aloha Within opens with a lovely song. A warm voice sings an unfamiliar melody without accompaniment, and that voice, against the black background of the image, draws the viewer in from the very first moment. When the first image appears, we may assume the voice belongs to a singer at a wedding ceremony, with dancers performing on stage for the guests. Yet even in those early minutes

A review of the short film Who’s Choreographing Us?, directed by BUSE BASKI and Georgia Bloom Films that use dance as their primary mode of expression generally fall into two categories. The first group is known as screendance: films in which the choreography is specifically designed for the camera, and through the possibilities that cinematic tools offer the makers—lenses, frames, horizontal and vertical camera movements, editing, and so on—we are meant to arrive at a differ

Director of Innovation in Connecticut | Associate Research Professor, University of Connecticut Please tell us a little about yourself, and your academic background. How did you become interested in filmmaking? Tell us about your previous projects, before making Innovation in Connecticut. I am a documentary filmmaker, producer, and Associate Research Professor at the University of Connecticut. My professional life has always existed at the intersection of filmmaking, rese