Brooklyn's Beachfront Romance With Cinema Continues at the Coney Island Film Festival

By Joshua Glick

DEC 19-JAN 20 | Film

The 19th Annual Coney Island Film Festival (CIFF) wrapped, per ritual, in an epic bumper car bash. Filmmakers, organizers and spectators found themselves colliding into one another at the Eldorado Auto Skooter rink on Surf Avenue. The event was thoroughly in the spirit of the festival, which does not simply take place at the storied amusement destination, but is of it in distinct ways. The cultural geography of the region shapes all aspects of exhibition and programming.

Édouard Louis Comes to Brooklyn: The History of Violence and The End of Eddy

By Emma Grillo

NOV 2019 | Theater

Emma Grillo on Èdouard Louis's The History of Violence. The story, an adaptation of a memoir by the same name by the French author takes place during Christmas Eve. Over the course of two hours, Director Thomas Ostermeier leads audiences through the harrowing account of Louis’s rape and near murder, in a dizzying series of tellings and retellings, all layered on top of one another.

An excerpt from SPEECH

By Jill Magi

NOV 2019 | Fiction

She went out for bread and on her way she walked past the open doors of the auditorium used for bridal gown, gun, and political conventions. She took some steps back and looked inside at floors being mopped in half circles. The mops like long hair sweeping back and forth leaving trails of water fading quickly under the lights.

Elaine Cameron-Weir: strings that show the wind

By Valentina Di Liscia

OCT 2019 | ArtSeen

That the elements of Elaine Cameron-Weir’s works are at once ruggedly utilitarian and impossibly arcane is one of her brilliant conceits.